7.20.2008

I had a discussion with my mom today about making our laundry loads bigger, wearing jeans more then once before watching, taking shorter showers, and the like. This is one of the many time in the past few months we've talked about it, and upon asking why, I remembered that America is in the middle of a recession.

recession.
the first big step towards depression.

My mom told me the water bills have gone up, as have heating/electricity bills, and I'm sure we are all aware of the rising gas prices. I think that it's sad that I was excited to see a gas station selling gas for $3.84, as opposed to $3.91, at the Wawa by my house

Cheaper? Yes.
Cheap? ...No.

I think it's sad how people who were getting along fine a year ago, are struggling to make ends meet now, and how people who were struggling to make ends meet, are barely keeping their head above the water. I see more and more people, those proud people who never would admit that they needed help, resorting to accepting charity. That's not a bad thing, I know, but I'm just shocked to see some of the people I've seen when I do my voulenteer work.

Unemployment rates have risen, workers hours are being cut, the number of people using foodstamps/ebt is rising rapidly.

What happens when recession bcomes depression? Can America handle it this time, or will it be another sad repeat of 1929? The latter, I highly doubt, but if things continue the way they are, then hard times are ahead.

sunshine.

7.14.2008

It is, in all technicality, July fifteenth as of four minutes before I begin to write this, but I have yet to go to sleep. This is my entry for July fourteenth.
Our society is going downhill at a rapidly increasing pace. I could go on for hours about who's, where's, what's, why's, and when's, but I'll just focus on one thing I've been thinking about lately ... movies.

I went to see 'Wanted' with Mike (http://www.mikerwave.blogspot.com/) last night, and not even five minutes into the movie, there was a scene involcing the main character's best friend and girlfriend having sex on a kitchen table. Little was censored. Also, ever seen 'Good Luck, Chuck'? I can imagine a large percentage of teenage boys taking that as their own personal pornography, what with the boobs and sex flying everywhere.

Take a second and think back to the "good ole' days," and compare movies and films. When there was a sex scene in a movie then, usually they would show a little bit of feet, some bare back, maybe some leg; they would show enough that you would get the idea. Also, if was often overlayed with music to mask the sounds of the sex itself. Now, you see and hear all, with the exception of a direct film shot of penis or vagina. It's so close to an "anything goes" style of film. It's crude, rude, vulgar, and it completley demoralizes one of the most personal things a person can ever give up.

Why, when you know so many young people are going to see it, would you conciously put explicit scenes into what would become a widly popular movie?

money.
money, money, money.

That's all that seems to matter these days, but I won't digress to that topic because I could go on and on and on; I'll save it for another blog.

Society is regressing.

sunshine.