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Arbitrarily.
But now that has changed with thought and guidence. I went to a lecture tonight by Gideon Yago (you remember, from MTV news; brilliant guy). He spoke of this. We, thoes of us born in the 80's, are 1/3 of the voting populace. We are the largest demographic in the nation, and a very ignorant mass of us beleive our voice is without consequence; this is the single most demeaning element of us. Polititians don't take us seriously for we have the greatest interests (statistically speaking) in 1. cars 2. sex and relationships 3. getting a job after college. We have our heads metaphorically burried in the sand.
Our nation is degrading at amazing rates. One out of every three dollars of value in this world is american debt. Unemployment is on the rise and has been for the past five years; at this rate we will be at great depression levels by 2012. If we do not incite change, we will only have ourselves to blame for all of what goes wrong. Not our polititians, not our parents, not our teachers: only ourselves.
I hope everyone that reads this is registered to vote and does so in all elections (especially thoes of you with oregonian citizenship who really have no excuse not to; to ballot comes to you!). You are a failure of a ciizen if you don't.
So, I was reading through willamette week online today and found this little article: http://www.wweek.com/wwire/?p=9379 . I was horified. As the article says, the defigning feature of our great Pacific NW food is that is uses our local ingrediants to makes somthing truely unique and expressive. That some cahin restraunteur would not only steal that, but also transplanty it to a local that has very little of the local NW flavor to it (namely New York City) is like a punch in the kidney. To quote the quote of Corey Schreiber, "If someone had asked me to run that restaurant... I think I would have felt false. I'd be faking it."
I did appreciate what the article said about our food though: "That's what's so funny about this whole Pacific Northwest thing: it's actually very simple... If you live there. And sort of elusive if you don't."
Hopefully the resturant in NY will fail.
the end.
LJ Interests meme results
- banjo:
It's a great instrument. As Steven Martain said "it's impossible to sound sad and play banjo". - emo:
Despite what I tell my self, and what others tell me I should do, I continue to love the stuff. Only the good stuff though. And it dosn't mean emotional; it means "emotive rock". And Coldplay isn't emo. - food:
I'm a complete foodie.
-end of line- - gay porn:
Not only is it enjoyable, but good for you. One should masterbate at least once a day, if only for better preformance when with another.
And, who dosen't love it? Only thoes who are evil and hated wholly by me. - japanese:
Wonderful language; wonderful culture. - men:
They be my means of lust. Just look at them... all mascualine and tasty. With all sorts of possiblilities.
Best when being fucked. - people watching:
The little intricacies and idiosyncricies of the human in his or her natural habitat are fasinateing. Allows one to glimpse true human nature.
And don't think your self a people watcher if you do it from time to time. It only counts if you do it as an intellectual excercise. - pyrotechnics:
FIRE! - swords:
My weapon of choise. Elegant and flexible. Good for the slaughter. - wine:
Despite being under-age, I know a great deal about it.
Favorite white: Pino Grigio
Favorite red: Cianti
Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.
How does one know a real entity from an artificial one? That's what I am figureing. Comments would be much appreciated, hopefully full of criticism.
