Education or Bust!

There are so many people, and systems in this country that need a complete overhaul. It's like having an ugly outdated kitchen. Sometimes you just need to gut it, knock down some walls and start over. Same goes for this country's education system. What a joke! Too many rules and regulations to be followed, so many years and money must be invested into acquiring an education so that one might be taken seriously with-in the job market. What a shame it is that if I wanted to teach my own native language English as a second language, here in the US, I would need to obtain a degree, a minimum of fours year and study an extensive amount of other subjects that I am not interested in, not good at, will fail the class and not only that,  will not use at all! But, I could go to just about any other country and and be an ESL teacher without a degree.

My point is, they need to change a whole lot of things here.
In fact, if you ask me there is too much prestige given to those who are able to obtain a college education. No offense to anyone out there who has one. Kudos for doing something that I am not capable of accomplishing myself.  :)  However, I feel that just because someone has a degree in the area of his/her choice does not mean that that person is any more capable of performing their job any better than the next guy who just might be...God forbid, "self-educated"  on the subject.

So many things are wrong with-in the school system in general. However I think that a large part of this issue belongs on the heads of the parents. It's my opinion that for so many, education is undervalued with-in the home. The lack of putting a value on the necessity of a great education and ability to become acceptable to a decent university , leads the child into a false sense of security, bringing with it a lack of desire one so desperately needs to focus on their education.  Poor families can't afford the high price of Universities, others just don't place an importance on it at all, others are too ignorant and don't have the mental capacity to be a part of it, and then we have the rich ones who whether they care for it or not, they go because they can afford it and their rich college graduate parents placed education on a pedestal, making it a must, not just an "if we have the money, or if you want to".  I wonder how different things would be if we had not been lied to.  Just been plain out honest and said, if you take this path you will be just "okay" or you take this other path and you will be "successful".  The truth hurts way less than the cover-up.

That age old saying that i've heard time and again, that one does not need a college education to become successful, was obviously written by someone with out one, who just happened to get lucky.  I think in the past this type of thinking was not wrong exactly,  but was just was more achievable at that time.  Regardless it was still suffocating the individual with a false sense of security instead of being honest. The sad thing is that it is usually many many years before one realizes that  his airways have become restricted and by that time it is too late to right the wrongs and no point in trying, as a good chunk of his life has already come and gone.  It becomes much easier to remain stagnant and with-in constant reach of his oxygen tank.

We must understand this type of thinking does not, and cannot apply to the world in which we live in today. There are too many rules, regulations and political correctness. We have politically corrected ourselves into the toilet.  Too afraid of what might happen if we really say what we think.  We ourselves have created a society in which we have made it IMpossible to NOT rely on what we can be given by others, and what others think  and decide we are deserving of. We no longer have the ability to choose and create the person we want to be. We must redirect our wants and aspirations to follow a different path, one that just might have less "red tape" and regulations.  Someone else's path entirely as we must adhere to the regulations and restrictions that have oppressed us and are slowly suffocating us to death.

Protect IP and S.978: What you Need to Know.

So, lately on the internet there has been a lot of buzz about the "S.978" law. This new law would prohibit any use of copyright materials; even if you are simply singing a song that has copyright. So, there was a big amount of people against this law, therefore, our United States Government decided to make Protect IP. Protect IP is yet another law, but there isn't much time to stop it, as the law is being rushed through; already passed the Senate, now at the House of Representatives.So, what's so bad about Protect IP? Well, technically there are no new laws being put into place. Basically these laws are to cut down on piracy, by making the penalties much bigger. For example, Protect IP will get you jail time for streaming ANYTHING that has copyright on the internet, this might even include videogame gameplays. Also, this will be put against your criminal record. Basically Protect IP is the exact same thing, but reworded to get the law passed. There are very few differences, but they can be very different; such as, instead of having to stream copyright material on the internet 10 times, Protect IP makes that limit 1. Also, for example if your website might have a review on a song, even though it is not the song itself, this can be removed from all search engines, and would stop your views on your website, and possibly stop your cash flow; meaning a loss of jobs, and an even worse economy. That just goes to show that our lawmakers have n idea how the internet works.There are many more situations where this is the same case, such as for people like WhiteBoy7thSt who make their living, off filming themselves play games; but this could be taken away, also meaning, a higher unemployment rate. And since this "crime" is put against your criminal record, most places that you apply for job, will not want a criminal working there. My point is, we need to stop "Protect IP". And our stupid Government.