Memory

After reading over severall of my classmates posts concerning the podcast of memory i saw a common trend in debating if its right or wrong to use a drug to erase certain memories. A word i saw used was unnatural, when i hear that it makes me think of the debate concerning abortion. Although my opinions sway from time to time concerning abortion and now also this drug, my underlying theory is that the human mind determines what is natural or not. It is natural humans have researched and found such things as having an abortion or this memory drug, hence making it natural to use them. Saying it is not ok to use a drug humans created for our own benefit is like saying its unnatural to use vaccines for preventing deseases. If one says its unnatural to rule out a bad memory, isnt it the same as saying its unnatural to use a vaccine preventing a disease? Both are for our benefit, right? Wouldnt "erasing" a disease change your life just as erasing a bad memory would?

Government Conspiracy

After 9/11 i have been thinking a lot about that war and secrets tied to t. After watching "24" for years, governement conspericy has been a hot topic on my mind. I constantly think of different ways the government can twist and turn our society without the people knowing. For example, Saudi Arabia is a extremely important financial partner to the U.S. Consiquently, before the war, Iraq was constantly attacking Saudi Arabia. A possible conspiracy could be the U.S. saying our invasion of Iraq was becasue of possible weopons of mass destruction, but the real reason is our allegiance to Saudi Arabia and necessary defense of them could be covered by simply saying we were just trying to find some nukes.

Indian Reservations

Over the summer we all read a book about a group of Indians struggling to make it in the music world. The fact they live on a Indian reservation made none of us think twice. I just want to take a step back and think about the whole idea of Indian reservations. Basically, we conquered northern Ameria without the consent of the Natives. If you look today at the reservations given to the natural inhabitants of this land, its proposturous. The reservations are not only isolated ghettos, but land Indians are socialy forced to live on.