Topic:Norman Mailer
Something people use in everyday life is the word evil and basing judgment off of who sounds the best. As a country we feel threatenend not by terrorism but by others coming in and taking our place. Take someone that works for corporate America, works hard everyday, and invest their money in other stocks. If someone even says one thing about stocks crash they panic. Why? Because they feel threatenend. If you think about Jim, John, or Jeff their whole life was put in that stock investment. If the stocks crash then corporate America crashes. I think that's what Mailer was trying to say. America is based so much on capitalism that if something or someone comes into our nation or our lives we call it evil. When the truth is we're scared. If our lively hood is threatenend then we have nowhere to go or nothing to do because that was our life. If people spent less time thinking about themselves and more time cultivating with other people, this nation just might be alright.
Something else as a nation we have a bad habit of doing is we're not able to think for ourselves. Mailer pointed out in his book that Bush is not able to make decisions on his own. True enough you have other people in office that make decisions, but Bush has an opinion also. Bush doesn't give his opinion, his judgment is based who sounds better or who has the best voice. Most people are followers and not leaders. It's common for anyone to watch a music video or a movie and realize he may want to be like that person. He may dress like this person, act like this person, and even talk like this person. As a nation we have a hard time thinking on our own. We are so use to following this person or that person that we all become like robots. We don't know how to think on our own. We let other people control our thoughts and movements. We let others think for us. If Americans were all able to become leaders instead of followers it could be a good thing. Depending on how you use it.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
A Meaningless War
Topic: Why are we at War?
In my opinion I couldn't agree more with the points that Norman Mailer made. He made a very good points about President Bush. He argued that President Bush associates everything with evil. So if he believes that it's evil we should attack it. President is Bush is not the only one that does it also. If you think about it just about fifty percent of Americans have a habit of thinking something or someone is evil then we as a country should attack it. Why as a country should we feel threaten? I think because as Americans we are scared because it's something new entering our world and we don't know how to take it so we condemn it as all evil. President Bush feels threaten and he doesn't know how to react to certain situations. Norman Mailer made it clear when he pointed out that our president doesn't know how to think on his own. So he would hang around people and based on who sounded better, that's how he went with the better judgment.
The reason why we are still at war has no meaning anymore. I believe the reason why we are still fighting and what Mailer tries to point out has to do more with capitalism than with September eleven. Now in America everything is based upon money and how much we can make. It has nothing to do with the lives that were lost in the World Trade Center. True enough when September eleventh comes around people always remember the lives that were lost, but they don't mourn the way they use to when it first happenend. If some people in America weren't so based upon making money constantly then they wouldn't have reasons to spend long hours at work, instead they could spend more time at home with their families. Then again that's the way the world works.
In the future, I think we people will look back on the war in Iraq and wonder what the hell were we fighting for again. This war has no meaning to it. I don't think the war is going to end anytime soon and I don't think it's going to solve anything. Basically Bush is saying it's okay to kill little boys and girls, but let's also send food and clothes to Iraq to help out. Hello...we still have poor children here in America that need help. Can we work on our own country first before we hell anyone else?
In my opinion I couldn't agree more with the points that Norman Mailer made. He made a very good points about President Bush. He argued that President Bush associates everything with evil. So if he believes that it's evil we should attack it. President is Bush is not the only one that does it also. If you think about it just about fifty percent of Americans have a habit of thinking something or someone is evil then we as a country should attack it. Why as a country should we feel threaten? I think because as Americans we are scared because it's something new entering our world and we don't know how to take it so we condemn it as all evil. President Bush feels threaten and he doesn't know how to react to certain situations. Norman Mailer made it clear when he pointed out that our president doesn't know how to think on his own. So he would hang around people and based on who sounded better, that's how he went with the better judgment.
The reason why we are still at war has no meaning anymore. I believe the reason why we are still fighting and what Mailer tries to point out has to do more with capitalism than with September eleven. Now in America everything is based upon money and how much we can make. It has nothing to do with the lives that were lost in the World Trade Center. True enough when September eleventh comes around people always remember the lives that were lost, but they don't mourn the way they use to when it first happenend. If some people in America weren't so based upon making money constantly then they wouldn't have reasons to spend long hours at work, instead they could spend more time at home with their families. Then again that's the way the world works.
In the future, I think we people will look back on the war in Iraq and wonder what the hell were we fighting for again. This war has no meaning to it. I don't think the war is going to end anytime soon and I don't think it's going to solve anything. Basically Bush is saying it's okay to kill little boys and girls, but let's also send food and clothes to Iraq to help out. Hello...we still have poor children here in America that need help. Can we work on our own country first before we hell anyone else?
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