Rachel and Jenn love Documentaries!

Over break I read 1984.
I realize most people read that in their senior english class, but I was not given that opportunity and I'm glad. I never appreciated the books I read in high school because I was forced to read them. When you choose to read a book, you get so much more out of it. So anyway, I finally decided to read this book. When I finished, my first thought was WTF? I took the message to be that it doesn't matter how hard you try to resist, you're fucked in the end anyway. Ending the book with whats-his-name finally loving Big Brother did not please me. The more I've thought about it, though, the more I like it. Its so similar to out country right now... Constant warfare to keep the people in the workforce. An invisible ruling class headed by figure invented by this ruling class. Control of the media by this ruling class. Indoctrination of children to believe the nation is always right and looking out for the good of the people..... Its a little scary.

Last night Rachel and I watched Zeitgeist: Addendum. We watched Zeitgeist last year. I always try to take these docu's with a grain of salt because I know that they tend to stretch the truth in the direction of their own agenda. However, they explain the gist of our monetary system and say that our money is essentially imaginary. Every dollar we have is owed to somebody by somebody. Sounds about right. They also said that we have the technologies: solar, wind, tidal, wave, and geothermal, to NEVER have to burn fossil fuels again. Its all so fucked.

Anywhooo, Alysa's coming today for the weekend YAY!! I get to move into my new apartment on December 21st YAY!! I have about 15 days left in Oneonta BOO!! I'll be a college graduate very soon YAY!! I have one large project and one really hard exam to do during that time BOO!!