I had an idea today. Actually I had an idea about ten minutes ago and it was pretty easy to realize so I took to it pretty quick seeing as though it is a great distraction from my actual obligations for the night (econ test tomorrow, English essay due Friday, Physics homework due tomorrow, and Music Theory homework equally due). But I have decided to end my love affair with myspace to a certain degree and The Blogopolis is my nicotine gum in the addiction I have with the myspace. I am not going to be a hypocrit though as i have been in the past, lying to you all saying that I am never going to go onto myspace again. That would be wrong and I am made up of no such baseness. Instead, I will only use my benspace for my music related ongoings unless i find that this is a more comfortable medium of communication entirely in which case… well, you know the score. We’ll see how that goes. If nothing better, this will be the place where I can write out publically while still being maintained by the privacy of knowing that no one will read what I write anyway.
As you probably already know, unless you don’t know me in which case, hi, i’m ben nice to meet you. now get over it., I’m a pretty opinionated dude and you know what… sometimes, an hour a day of me just isn’t enough so maybe now you will be able to say “hmm, he had a good/bad point today, i want to hear a little bit more about that subject from him.” And so I will not dissappoint and for my own venting pleasures:
She has been haunting my mind now for too long and I think if I keep up as I am, she’ll end up hating me within the next year. I am of course reffering to the dreaded Mrs. Rivas. I have never met anyone with whom I so very much agree with politically and yet so thoroughly detest personally. And it’s not that she’s not personable, it’s that she is so completely obsessed with entertaining a notion of her own superiority amongst a classroom full of.. well, children. It’s a petty battle and I choose to fight it almost every day because, mostly, I am but 17 years of age. To clear something up, it isn’t Carl Azus that I hate, it’s CNN and more particularly CNN Student News. It’s a great resource to use and it should be taken advantage of (in classes whos bandwidth is so permitting) but it is a program designed to entice elementary school/junior high school students into taking an interest in global affairs. It is not substantial basis for education at a high school level (particularly in an A.P. class) filled with students who have already been granted scholarships and unconditional admittance to such schools as UCLA, Berkeley, and Point Loma (to name the ones that directly encircle me). So maybe my argument is flawed, maybe it is truly more petty than I have the ambition to profess; however, it is not only because of the blatant babying which so vexes me awake every morning, it is not that I have to teach myself the entire subject of economics because my teacher is too fu©%!ng lazy to do it herself, it is that so few people have the gall to request a more serious, more educational, more intellectually stimulating environment to work in. Case and point, I’ll call him by name because I don’t think anyone will read this, and if they do then I’d tell him to his face anyway, David Acevedo really doesn’t care. There’s something to be proud of in that because I wish i could not care like he does but I can’t help feeling somewhat cheated in the matter. But he doesn’t care that we watch Student News in the mornings because it kills time. Same reason everyone tries to get her to watch Colbert who I honestly couldn’t speak out against other than that I do not think that every day should result in the quest to watch lag-free episodes of the Colbert Report almost every morning when the ever present threat of A.P. exams loom so large in our collective fates.
One thing that I must take from Colbert is the fear he expressed over the ongoing apathy of our generation. Essentially, it is exactly what I do now that so agitated him around the time when that dude got tasered earlier this year claiming that instead of taking action, instead of seeing wrong and doing right, the majority (everyone) decided that they would take their inaction during the moment and translate it into empty promises and rhetoric in blog format.
Bringing me full circle here, It is through this fear of apathy with which I have decided to create this Blogopolis. I think that instead of keeping myself glued to my space, using this as a sort of journal if you will, i may hopefully use my mind a little bit more. Maybe i’ll be able to use this space as a channel to appeal to people in a bit less superficial of a mode of communication or diction than we’re all so comfortable with. Yeah, and maybe i’ll just kill some time in the process, waiting for nothing.
On that gloomy note, goodnight.
