What Else Is News?

That's always the fallback option I suppose.  Trying to keep the conversation going, trying to let momentum get in the way of awkwardness.  On top of that, the news these days is basically listicles and celebrity gossip.  There's nothing of import, or if it is, they bury it in quick 20 second segments, or in the middle of the papers, sandwich and overshadowed by everything else.  So I ask you, yeah, what else is news? 

What strange dreams I have.  3 distinct dreams, all different settings.  It's like something out of a tv show special or something like that.  It's strange what the subconscious can come up with.  Because that's definitely not the way I would have imagined it.  But of course the mind comes up with a lot of unexpected complications and hidden agendas.  All very revealing, because you face the tug between what you believe and the complete opposite.  If only the dream world was real, and this the sad, boring alternative fakeness.  Then again, if we were dreaming this, why would it be so dull and monotonous?  There's your answer, unfortunately.  This is probably real.  That's a shame.

I don't like people who say that growth and fairness are not dependent on each other.  They should be, it's the sign of a more enlightened society.  Let's talk about a more hypothetical situation.  In fact, it's not hypothetical, it's very real world.  Logging and mining.  So the mining industry pretty much saved Australia from a recession during the global financial crisis.  But mining has a significant impact on the environment!  We go in and destroy the Earth, and this is usually on the lands of Indigenous people who we continue to treat unfairly.  We dispossess them of their land, and profit from their suffering.  Is that right?  I don't care if regulating the mining industry or logging/timber industry leads to job cuts or loss in profits.  That's not fairness, and that's not the right sort of growth that should be encouraged.  People should focus their talents in other fiels that aren't as destructive. 

People who believe in any form of discrimination should be beaten about the head.  If you believe in one form of it, then you automatically agree with all other forms of it.  If you don't, then you're a hypocrite and a liar.

Stupid technology!  It never works when you need it to.  I'm sure I'll come up with better things to blog about this week.  This is all just a warm up.  But I've still got 30 minutes to blow before I can get out of here.  One thing is for sure, you can't be too certain of anything - hahaha!  That sentence makes no sense.

Well, here goes.

Joaquin out.