May 28th A War in Outer Space?

Yesterday, we had yet another thought provoking lecture by Rab.
The presidential election in America was brought up a couple of times. Now, since the United States is a huge country with so many different people with different backgrounds living in it, I personally think it is close to impossible to actually achieve a successful 'democracy.' However, I think there are compromises that can be made to get closer to democracy as much as we can and this, America is doing an awful job at. Just like we learned today, Obama became president with less than 50 % of the people's support. I mean, what kind of democratic country would allow that? Oh wait, we're living in one that does.haha Anyways, they should at least, at least have a reelection. Now, since we're on the topic of reelections, I would like to point out one fact that a lot of people do not realize. There are actually more parties in America than just the Democrats and the Republicans. During the last election in 2012, Obama and Romney were the two main contenders. However, what is not brought into the spotlight is that there were actually other people in the run as well; Gary Johnson from the Libertarian party, Jill Stein from the Green party and so on. I personally agreed with Gary Johnson's beliefs and was secretly rooting for him. What disappointed me was that these candidates got close to zero media coverage. Maybe zero is a bit exaggerating but in the Japanese news, it was really close to zero. Because the media is being supported by these 'strong' people from the two main parties, they show very little support for the third parties. At this rate, the dominance of the two parties will probably remain the way it is.

My high school teacher actually showed me the movie 'Corporation' once so this was the second time I watched the scene about the water in Bolivia. The corporations are pretty much putting a price on everything. We have fought for centuries just for a piece of land, resources and people. It won't be long until every little thing on earth will have a price as well as an owner. The question that rises here is,,,what next? Some people say that the next war will be a fight for land in outer space. I agree with this. Humans are curious animals. We always want to know the unknown. 'Space' has always been mysterious to us because we do not know what is out there. That is why, we want it and we want to know more about it. The cold war reflects this so much. The Soviets and the US fought for the first step on the moon which is ridiculous but could have and did change the potential future of both countries forever. The cold war ended without any actual nuclear wars but it may have just been a foreshadow of what is to come in the next few centuries or maybe years.  It really is the survival of the fittest....

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