Exactly sixty-nine years ago today, Japan launched its attack on Pearl Harbor. And yet you don't hear about it on the news (not that it's exactly new), you don't hear about it in history class, and you probably didn't know about it at all unless you, like me, are a frequenter of this.
It was sixty-nine years ago, and if you look at all of time, you could even say 69 short years ago, and yet already we are forgetting. If we forget, will we be forced to remember? I find it disgraceful that whenever I tried talking to people about this today, they changed the subject to the Beatles, and I think that if we don't confront history, it can only mean the worst.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
nations unies
I've written a lot on here - okay, three posts - about threats to peace, but this is going to be about peace.
The UN was founded after the second world war, with the hope that this alliance between many countries - all but 2 - could prevent any more gigantically huge wars. So far, it has. The United Nations has also declared numerous lists of rights for different groups, and with Canada having signed the Universal Declaration of Indigenous Rights last month, things are looking up.
So click here to find out more about the inspiring projects that the UN has, and while you're at it, check out UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that has planted the same threads of hope in children as the UN has in all beings.
There is hope.
The UN was founded after the second world war, with the hope that this alliance between many countries - all but 2 - could prevent any more gigantically huge wars. So far, it has. The United Nations has also declared numerous lists of rights for different groups, and with Canada having signed the Universal Declaration of Indigenous Rights last month, things are looking up.
So click here to find out more about the inspiring projects that the UN has, and while you're at it, check out UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that has planted the same threads of hope in children as the UN has in all beings.
There is hope.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Differences
"While there is no cure for their condition [Asperger's Syndrome]..." *
There is no known cure for neurotypicals, either. If it is not vital that someone change, leave them at who they are. Just because someone is different from you, even if someone is different from 99% of the world's population, it doesn't mean they are "wrong." If they want to change, or if it is life-threatening, only then does this "cure" actually mean something. Cures are meant to heal ails, not to force people away from who they truly are. And while people on the autism spectrum are in the minority, does this mean that we need to convince them that they are bad, wrong, and evil for being who they are? Even for being different? When you think of the world as a whole, everybody is unique. And nobody should be forced to suffocate under a mountain of labels.
*http://www.suite101.com/content/20-facts-about-aspergers-syndrome-in-children-a105421
There is no known cure for neurotypicals, either. If it is not vital that someone change, leave them at who they are. Just because someone is different from you, even if someone is different from 99% of the world's population, it doesn't mean they are "wrong." If they want to change, or if it is life-threatening, only then does this "cure" actually mean something. Cures are meant to heal ails, not to force people away from who they truly are. And while people on the autism spectrum are in the minority, does this mean that we need to convince them that they are bad, wrong, and evil for being who they are? Even for being different? When you think of the world as a whole, everybody is unique. And nobody should be forced to suffocate under a mountain of labels.
*http://www.suite101.com/content/20-facts-about-aspergers-syndrome-in-children-a105421
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