We are directly dependent of the society we live in but indirectly dependent of our planet. But our survival in the long run depends on our planet, not on our society. We must cut out this middle man, which is our society, and become more dependent of our planet. This way we would be more responsible for our planet because our survival would depend on it and we would be more aware of our planet.
Dependency on our planet, not our society
March 5, 2014Un empresario niega la mano al Príncipe en el MWC “por no permitir la consulta”
February 26, 2014
Ruínas celtíberas y romanas, Soria
A pesar de que estoy en contra de la monarquía, pensando que sería mejor que España fuera una república, creo que aquí el Príncipe Felipe ha quedado muy bien, si es cierto lo que informa El País (http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2014/02/24/catalunya/1393264405_644122.html) , claro está, de que el Príncipe se ha dirigido al empresario catalán, que negó darle la mano, en catalán, cosa que me ha parecido perfecto. Y me han parecido muy acertados los comentarios del Príncipe de “Ni que sea por educación tendrías que darme la mano” unos comentarios que representan que lo más importante entre nuestros pueblos de la Península Ibérica es que haya amistad.
Absentminded
December 30, 2013I’ve always thought I was absentminded. It runs in my family. But after what I saw yesterday, I know I’m not the most absentminded person.
Perhaps the most absentminded thing I’ve done in my life is to hang a plastic bag containing bread in the closet. It was some very good tasting bread I had just purchased and when I got home, instead of hanging my coat in the closet, I hang the bag of bread. I must have left the coat somewhere else, maybe on a kitchen chair. For a few days I remember wondering what had happened to the bread. It was bread from the Great Harvest Bread Company, not a bread that I buy every day, but one that I love. About three days later my wife at the time discovered where I put the bread.
Since we are speaking about absent mindedness, I must mention my father, since he was one of the most absent-minded persons I ever met. One problem he had was finding anything, but specially his reading glasses. So we decided to buy him a strap for his glasses so he could wear them around his neck. Well, one day he came up to all of us and stated, “I can’t find my reading glasses. $20 to whomever finds them for me.” My youngest brother, perhaps the one with the most wit, quickly noticed they were hanging from his neck. Well, eventually he lost the strap and we went back to square one where at least once a week no one in the family knew where he had put his glasses.
But now back to the most absent-minded event that I have ever seen. Yesterday at Target, a department store, for those of you who live overseas, I saw a lady throw her shopping cart, with all her groceries, down the electric escalator. My children and I watched in amazement as the shopping cart slid down the escalator, did about three frontward flips crashing down and bouncing off the escalator after each one. This was the regular upward going escalator, hence the somersaults, as the force of gravity pushed the shopping cart downwards and the escalator pushed it upwards. This poor lady thought she was putting the shopping cart in the escalator for shopping carts but was obviously not paying attention. After the shopping cart came to its resting place at the bottom floor, the escalator diligently brought all the groceries upstairs, most of them still in their plastic bags but many of the groceries like the milk container had broken and there was spilled milk and other products on the steps. The lady was rather young so one could not claim senility. She looked about thirty. She exclaimed “Oh, no!” when she realized what she had done.
“That is something I don’t think we will ever forget,” I told my children as we drove back home.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
Corporations are the new Kings and Queens of the World
December 12, 2013
Corporations are the new kings and queens of the world. They, together with governments, control knowledge and jobs. They force you to live their lifestyle, sell you their jobs at piecemeal and make you their slaves. But they forgot one thing, which is that total ownership is impossible.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
Math for the Deprived of Knowledge and Skills
October 29, 2013Economics, finance and Math make a lot of sense for the rich and the privileged, but for the poor and the Deprived of Skills and Knowledge it simply doesn’t add up at all.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
Shack in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya
Revolution
October 29, 2013
Diseased Kenyan child in Kibera slums, Nairobi
You are born into this world without anything and you leave this world when you die, without anything. So what makes you think that you can own this world, that you can own the environment, that you can own skill and knowledge, that you can keep it from us, sell it to us at piece meal and make us dependent on you? What and who gives you that right?
You have developed a system of voting with your rules, not ours. You say that we have the right to vote so we can change our leaders who make your rules, not ours. And we have to wait for change, which once again comes in piece meal.
But the environment and our children cannot wait. While you make us wait to change your rules, our environment is being poisoned by your rules and our children are diseased and dying.
So if we are to survive in this society created by humans, we must take back what should have never been theirs and create an equal, open and transparent society for all. Without that the world will continue to be for the privileged and the few and injustice will continue to reign in our society because it is controlled by the few.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
Miriam Carey Shot Near The U.S. Capitol
October 4, 2013Although it is true that we live in a time of potential terrorist attacks and armed lunatics who shoot innocent people for dumb reasons, no matter what your opinion is of what happened yesterday, the fact is that our police forces shot a single unarmed mother in front of her toddler.
Did the police not see that there was a child inside the car? How much of a threat was this woman? The press reports that she “flattened barricades” but were any of the police officers there in real fatal danger at any given time? There are no doubt a lot of unanswered questions.
The police once again acted by shooting first and asking questions later. We live in a society that condones and justifies armed violence. It’s all for the fatherland, isn’t? Our armed security personnel and soldiers overseas are unquestionably nothing but heroes….allegedly working without pay that day, going beyond the call of duty….but killing a demented woman in front of her little girl nonetheless.
It is at times like this that it sickens me to live in the U.S. and I fear for my two boys. God help us all.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
Hope
October 2, 2013Unlike corporations and countries, humans can have hope for the future. Corporations and countries, unfortunately, are more concerned about the stupid societies they have created. The sooner we get rid of countries and change our societies to be more reflective of human and environmental needs, the better.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
Driving is NOT a privilege
July 2, 2013Once again yesterday I heard someone in our legal system make the statement and argument that “driving is a privilege.” It was an immigration judge. And whenever I hear someone make a statement or point their finger, I try to ask myself if the opposite is true. Many times I am surprised that it is.
First, I’d like to say that I find it appalling that the secretary of state in Illinois and our legal system has come to the conclusion that driving is a privilege for drivers. It is apparently based on a legal decision made by the courts that driving instead of being a right is a privilege. The courts have the right to make whatever statement they want since we do live in supposedly a free country but I personally believe driving is actually neither a right nor a privilege, it is a necessity and a responsibility.
And if you really think about it, the privilege is the government’s not ours. They have the privilege to regulate, control and facilitate our driving.
So please, judge, state attorney, city attorney, secretary of state, explain to me how driving is a privilege. Who purchased my car? Who pays for the gas? Who pays for the insurance? Who pays for the maintenance? Who pays for the children’s car-seats? Who drives my children to daycare? Who buys medication for my children late at night? How do the children go to their after-school sport activities? Who pays for the tolls? Who pays for our highways and bridges? How do I get to work? Who pays for the police, the sheriffs, the courts, etc? Driving is not even a privilege in European cities or in New York city, where public transportation is excellent and where arguably, one can live without a car. In those places driving could be called a luxury, but like here in Chicago, driving is also a responsibility and a necessity but never a privilege. The statement “driving privileges” must be changed immediately by our government to “driving responsibilities.”
In the U.S. most of us don’t have a choice around buying a car. Our public transportation is simply not good enough and in most cases, it is basically impossible to survive without a vehicle. Our government has set up our infrastructure and our lives so that people can buy cars and pay for car services conveniently. There are really few alternatives, if any, for those that cannot afford a car or choose to live without one. Our government clearly has given privileges to gas and car companies but not to the common people. Paying for a car, gas and services involving vehicles is always a struggle.
So in short, as things stand today, I ask our government to refrain from stating that our necessity to drive is a “privilege.” It is your privilege that we do drive, not ours, because you live, exist and gain from our driving, not the other way around.
Copyright © 2013 Jorge Luis Carbajosa
El descampado 
MANIFESTO: A solution to our environmental problems is collective ownership
April 3, 2014It is quite clear by now that all life in our planet is connected. Life depends on itself to survive. We survive by ingesting other life forms.
Therefore we as humans depend on the environment for our survival and our children depend on the environment as well.
It is clear that the great majority of countries and corporations are not interested in the well being of our planet first, but rather in their own survival and well being. We as individuals must eventually abolish all countries and become only one planet, without countries. We must respect nations and cultures but we must only be one world free of armed forces and countries.
We as indivdiduals must own the environment because it belongs to us as much as it belongs to anyone else. The efforts of Greenpeace and many other ecological organizations to save our planet are to be applauded but the effectiveness of their work in our planet, if compared to the destruction that governments and corporations are causing is minimal. These ecological organizations depend on contributions for survival and are themselves run by a minority of people. Therefore we the individuals of our planet must appropriate all elements of the planet and own it either as shares or some other viable form. All elements includes the air we breathe.
We must think of our planet as a condominium. All individuals have the right to some limited but fair space and everything else in this planet must be considered as common property and cannot be altered without the approval of all owners. The planet belongs to us first, to the common individual, not to our governments and not to corporations.
The future and exploitation of our planet cannot be determined by countries and corporations and to continue allowing it is simply criminal and a crime against humanity and our planet.
We as humans must take ownership of what the universe has given us and we must live in a way that sustains future life. Governments and corporations can no longer control our lives and force us to live without a collective ownership of our planet.
Copyright © 2014
Jorge Luis Carbajosa
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