Life and what I've learned.

People as a whole, for the most part, prefer not to think. Thinking tends to only cause problems and worries for the people involved. Thus, at some point distractions were invented. In simple times, wooden blocks and wheels would suffice. Not much existed to worry about. As time went on, things became more complicated. New weapons were made, new things were discovered to worry about like diseases and other concerns. The distractions became more advanced, more complex.

In modern times, worries are made simply to sell more distractions. Shiny one. Noise-making ones. Instead of thinking about terror, police corruption, starvation, racial issues, political corruption, and various other downers, people devote their life not to trying to change things to make them better, but instead to buy new distractions. Video games. Cars. Computers. Toys with electronics that you will play with for a few weeks and then never use again. Fancy gadgets made by children in sweatshops overseas who will never enjoy the results of their labor, and who could feed their family for a week with the money you spent on the toy alone. Celebrity breakups, marriages, scandals. Never mind what else the money used on makeup and surgery could have been used for.

People actively avoid thinking. If something comes up they don't want to hear, they either convince themselves it's not true, that nothing can be done about it, or that it is true and not a problem, since things happen.

We as a whole have become complacent to one another. We tend to only care about ourselves and the people we directly know in someway. Thus, prisoners tortured in Texas and Florida do not affect us or interfere with our lifes.

We trust the government and officials to take care of our safety. We seldom question orders from a police officer or many other people with signs of authority. Even if they are obviously doing something wrong, like beating a man, we are reluctant to step in and help, or try to put a stop to it, simply because we have a mind-set to obey officials.

A few decades ago, a woman was raped and then shabbed several times to death while unlocking her door. She lived in a highly populated area, yet no one called police because they didn't want to get involved and were certain that someone else must have already made the call. (Source at bottom.)

In the Stanford Prison Experiment, 24 students were divided into being prison guards and prisoners randomly. They did not know fully the details of the experiment. The prisoners were "arrested" without warning by the real police department by surprise. The experiment very quickly got out of hand. Prisoners suffered — and accepted — sadistic and humiliating treatment at the hands of the guards, and by the end many showed severe emotional disturbance.

In the Milgram experiment, 65 percent of those tested agreed to give what was implied to be fatal shocks to a man in another room, visible via a window. This was even after the man complained, started screaming, and even stopped moving.

What makes us like this? Is it normal human nature? Are we perverse in some way? If so, can it be fixed?

Something needs to be done about it, and soon. If anyone has their own thoughts and insights, please share them.

Sources, and highly recommended reading:


38 saw murder, failed to call police.

Stanford Prison Experiment- Official Site.

Stanford Prison Experiment on Wikipedia

Milgram Experiment on Wikipedia.

In a week or so, I will post a review on my free Street Fighter game that I received, details on my Youtube account and videos uploaded, projects I've been working on, and so forth.

And yes, maybe more details on my legal fight.