In the late 1970's people were divided in consumer choices between Pepsi and Coke, so much so that the better of the two led to many heated debates over the years. Pepsi decided settle their product over Cokes in an ingenious way, a taste test. Now this may seem normal to you but it was the climax which really evened the competition between both of these brands. Like other companies they set up a blind taste test in random street corners. Like other competitions they poured each drink into an unmarked cup. And like other participants the members were asked to see which they liked better. But, you see, though all of it is completely within the rules, the competition, because of the nature of these two brands, was rigged.
The important thing about the competition is the quantity it was measured in, one sip. If you drink a can of Pepsi you'll find that it tastes sweet, the sugar is very apparent in it. Think of it as a "short term" drink. Coke on the other hand is at first sip a bit dry "bite" that gradually sets in that you slowly end up liking more and more. Because of this one test Pepsi was voted better over 50% of the time skyrocketing their sales while Coke was scrambling to turn a profit and created a new version of coke which was critically abused which led to them rebranding the original as Coke classic which is the Coke that we know and love today.
The problem with this is that without giving the full facts the situation isn't correctly assessed. Yes their is only 200 people protesting for transgender rights in front of the White House but that doesn't include the people in all the malls and streets helping out too. Yes there are 100,000 members of Isis but that is just out of the 350 million Arabs in the world. Assault does occur in every 5 out of 1000 people but that doesn't pay the fact that it is declining from past years. The point is without proper context whatever facts you are giving by an organization are only to help them push their agenda.
Something other countries absolutely love mentioning about America is that they are the land where you can sue if you get hot coffee spilled on you in McDonald's and get millions. Well the real fact is that the McDonald's was very frivolous as they were repeatedly warned that their coffee was dangerously hot yet they ignored all the food companies in order to create more profit. The plaintiff was hurt badly almost to the point of third degree burns when she parked her car and simply tried to open the coffee to add cream. It started out as her only requesting 20,000 but it was raised to over half a million. Mind you, not because anyone believed that the woman deserved that compensation but to deplete their resources for the horror they had created. So it was not to help out the plaintiff but the punish the defendant.
Words can be twisted, statistics can be tampered, actions can be misinterpreted. They have been and are meant to and will until the media decides to fall off the path they are on now. But in such a disarrayed world it is up to the consumer to make the decision of what to believe, because sometimes, and quite literally it can be a matter of life or death.
Banking Abridged
Though now Italy is remembered for its pizza, giving us the Godfather, and making Germany lose World War 2 when being on the same side they were, in the 11th century its purpose was much much bigger than that. At that time Italy had left the feudalistic system meaning that the original organization of king and queens, knights and serfs, barons and peasants, they had left all of that. They changed their scheme into a country relying on commerce, filled with merchants. People from all around the world would gather there just to trade, but the problem was that there were so many different currencies going around and there was no way to efficiently trade between them. Though many people complain how complex and confusing banks are, a long time ago, in Pisa, it was made to make life simpler.
Spreading through Italy and even the world though more slowly, banks start to arose giving out credit to all different kinds of people to businessman, kings, and peasants. But through the centuries the problems and needs of individuals shifted, leaving us with the banking system that we are using today. People store their money in banks for a small interest and the bank loans it out for a much higher interest. Though they are much hated they are necessary in the economy because it gives resources to people to help them get things like houses, cars, any other big thing they want. They take idle funds and invest it back into our community to make them beneficial to our society.
But one of the reasons that banks are being turned down and less and less used right now is that they have changed their endgame in trying to aide people in the long term to trying to get more money in the short term. This along with the banking crisis of 2008 which proved the harm of being too lenient with the loans have made banks and caused themselves to pursue incomprehensibly complex endeavors and did their own trading to make fast money. This was essentially gambling and in turn it hurt whole economies and societies.
In the modern day, due to the whole history with traditional banks people are turning to different types of banks, banks for governments, companies and other big entities, or crowd funding, which basically hold operatives themselves meaning they create platforms to be used with their own company for transaction. A fast growing brand of bank that is also the most community positive is called credit unions which constitutes a community of people who pool in their money in order to provide financial products to each other. The benefit and the reason that it is being widely used is because it helps the community grow and it works for the benefit of people not of the entity itself.
Though you might hate all banks and hate bankers with a passion, it is a neccessary cornerstone in the world we live in. How it might look in another 100 years? That's another question for another day.
Spreading through Italy and even the world though more slowly, banks start to arose giving out credit to all different kinds of people to businessman, kings, and peasants. But through the centuries the problems and needs of individuals shifted, leaving us with the banking system that we are using today. People store their money in banks for a small interest and the bank loans it out for a much higher interest. Though they are much hated they are necessary in the economy because it gives resources to people to help them get things like houses, cars, any other big thing they want. They take idle funds and invest it back into our community to make them beneficial to our society.
But one of the reasons that banks are being turned down and less and less used right now is that they have changed their endgame in trying to aide people in the long term to trying to get more money in the short term. This along with the banking crisis of 2008 which proved the harm of being too lenient with the loans have made banks and caused themselves to pursue incomprehensibly complex endeavors and did their own trading to make fast money. This was essentially gambling and in turn it hurt whole economies and societies.
In the modern day, due to the whole history with traditional banks people are turning to different types of banks, banks for governments, companies and other big entities, or crowd funding, which basically hold operatives themselves meaning they create platforms to be used with their own company for transaction. A fast growing brand of bank that is also the most community positive is called credit unions which constitutes a community of people who pool in their money in order to provide financial products to each other. The benefit and the reason that it is being widely used is because it helps the community grow and it works for the benefit of people not of the entity itself.
Though you might hate all banks and hate bankers with a passion, it is a neccessary cornerstone in the world we live in. How it might look in another 100 years? That's another question for another day.
So Much More Than That
In middle school, I would walk past the cafeteria during passing period of 4th-5th periods and at that time the autistic people would have lunch and I was always try to be inviting to them and say hi and make them feel normal, just anything unlike how other people treated them. It was pretty awkward at the beginning but later as I got to talk to them I understood how they felt a bit better. The truth is that they are a lot like everyone else, its just that they have a problem with empathy.
Imagine that you live in a world where everyone was telepathic meaning they all can understand what everyone else is thinking... except for you. Everyone gets what everyone else is talking about and what their intentions are, except you. Forcing you to rely on body movements, face cues, tone changes, it isn't impossible but it is harder than it is for everyone else, and it definitively takes more work for you than others. They can detect how others feel and give an appropriate response to it, while your left behind in the mud.
It could feel like everything is going alright for a while but then you say something. Nothing offensive or rude but something weird, normal to you, but seemingly very strange to them. So they slowly turn their backs toward you. Because of your unknowing violation of this unwritten social cue they leave you out of the conversation bit by bit and start shunning you. You realize that you've killed the flow of it all.When they leave you're certain that they'll be talking about how weird or strange or crazy you are.
Having to constantly try to interpret indicators of whether their wanted or unwanted, whether something is appropriate to say or if it isn't okay. Having to do everything with so much precision to avoid the fate of being shunned. Having to constantly understand the ever changing rules of the social life. Having autism is also two sided battle, you logical side constantly tries to battle with the lazy, unproductive part of you to try to do something and not get distracted by little things like getting shoes or going to a carnival. Ignoring your less mature side results in a meltdown forcing them to choose between public humiliation and counterproductivity, both resulting in negative outcomes.
But something that bothers me is how people dramatize them. If you met a person diagnosed with autism... you've met someone with autism. You haven't met a special kid, you haven't met someone you need to choose words carefully around, they're so much more than just that. You've simply met another person diagnosed with autism.
It isn't a disease, it isn't a huge puzzle, its just a different person, a person with autism.
Imagine that you live in a world where everyone was telepathic meaning they all can understand what everyone else is thinking... except for you. Everyone gets what everyone else is talking about and what their intentions are, except you. Forcing you to rely on body movements, face cues, tone changes, it isn't impossible but it is harder than it is for everyone else, and it definitively takes more work for you than others. They can detect how others feel and give an appropriate response to it, while your left behind in the mud.
It could feel like everything is going alright for a while but then you say something. Nothing offensive or rude but something weird, normal to you, but seemingly very strange to them. So they slowly turn their backs toward you. Because of your unknowing violation of this unwritten social cue they leave you out of the conversation bit by bit and start shunning you. You realize that you've killed the flow of it all.When they leave you're certain that they'll be talking about how weird or strange or crazy you are.
Having to constantly try to interpret indicators of whether their wanted or unwanted, whether something is appropriate to say or if it isn't okay. Having to do everything with so much precision to avoid the fate of being shunned. Having to constantly understand the ever changing rules of the social life. Having autism is also two sided battle, you logical side constantly tries to battle with the lazy, unproductive part of you to try to do something and not get distracted by little things like getting shoes or going to a carnival. Ignoring your less mature side results in a meltdown forcing them to choose between public humiliation and counterproductivity, both resulting in negative outcomes.
But something that bothers me is how people dramatize them. If you met a person diagnosed with autism... you've met someone with autism. You haven't met a special kid, you haven't met someone you need to choose words carefully around, they're so much more than just that. You've simply met another person diagnosed with autism.
It isn't a disease, it isn't a huge puzzle, its just a different person, a person with autism.
Legal Brainswashing
I used to go to a private school when I was younger, from kindergarten to second grade and it was called Christian Liberty Academy, so obviously it focused on religious teachings. Since the first day of school we were forced to learn the ways of Christianity and attend chapel every single day and honestly it wasn't so bad. We sang along to some songs, some of the things they talked about they did in a really interesting way, and you would gather up with all your friends and not be trying to stuff 2 pounds of food down before twenty minutes.
But every day to start it off we would always pray and they would go over the "rules" of god. Looking back at that now, its just incredibly horrifying. Not because they would force a religion on us. Not because they took apart a half of the day which would have been dedicated to learning to this, but because of a much scarier truth. As kids we were told that there was someone watching us every second of every day, watching everything we do, making sure we do everything how they like it, and punishing anyone and everyone who doesn't follow it.
At a time where we were assured that there is no such thing as ghosts trying to kill you lurking in every dark corner, no monster is hiding underneath your bed, there isn't a demon in the closet we were told of this, something much worse, something that confirms all of the fears we had, and says that it is right, says that its good. The worse enemy is the accepted one, and through this we were exploited of our innocence and forced to follow this.
Daunting a little kid into acting the way you want by convincing them there is a supernatural being dictating your life is just devious. Yes if there is wine in a certain cabinet then you could tell you kid that a poltergeist lives there but to tell them how to behave to avoid eternal damnation and enter eternal bliss is not perfectly alright. What if they are born in a way that god won't like? Then they'll reject that part of themselves, they'll hate themselves.
They will embed this fear in them, that will dictate their life, and change them to worsen beings. It is funny how the military bans this practice but we use it every day: brainwashing. Isn't that what this is, to imbue little kids?
But every day to start it off we would always pray and they would go over the "rules" of god. Looking back at that now, its just incredibly horrifying. Not because they would force a religion on us. Not because they took apart a half of the day which would have been dedicated to learning to this, but because of a much scarier truth. As kids we were told that there was someone watching us every second of every day, watching everything we do, making sure we do everything how they like it, and punishing anyone and everyone who doesn't follow it.
At a time where we were assured that there is no such thing as ghosts trying to kill you lurking in every dark corner, no monster is hiding underneath your bed, there isn't a demon in the closet we were told of this, something much worse, something that confirms all of the fears we had, and says that it is right, says that its good. The worse enemy is the accepted one, and through this we were exploited of our innocence and forced to follow this.
Daunting a little kid into acting the way you want by convincing them there is a supernatural being dictating your life is just devious. Yes if there is wine in a certain cabinet then you could tell you kid that a poltergeist lives there but to tell them how to behave to avoid eternal damnation and enter eternal bliss is not perfectly alright. What if they are born in a way that god won't like? Then they'll reject that part of themselves, they'll hate themselves.
They will embed this fear in them, that will dictate their life, and change them to worsen beings. It is funny how the military bans this practice but we use it every day: brainwashing. Isn't that what this is, to imbue little kids?
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