Recently I read a book called "A Place Called Here" by Cecilia Ahern.
It is about a girl who obsesses on looking for missing things. You know
when you wash a pair of socks, but you never find the other one.
Actually I found the book so boring, that I never finished it, but I
find the idea interesting of a place where all the missing things go.
Like a heaven for lost things. Once when I was little I got a camera for
my birthday. You know one of those fake cameras, which spray water when
you push the button. Well, I and my friends were quite wired from all
the cake and we started spraying on the wallpaper, so my mother took away
the camera. She hid it "at a safe place", and I was supposed to get it
back after the party. Well, we never found the camera. Ever. My mother didn't even know where it disappeared. And I still keep losing things.
I've always liked weird stories about surreal and supernatural stories. Take the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
by George Orwell for instance. The idea of having a "big brother" that
watches over everyones life. Writing that novel in 1949, Orwell wasn't
so far away from the truth, only he picked the year wrong. I mean, I
have at least 16 surveillance cameras on the way from my place to the
centre square, which is like 700 meters away. Sure, we (the public) are
told that those are surveillance cameras for the protection against theft for
whatever companies put them up. But what if we actually are being
watched? I mean, you don't really know who is watching the footage. I
don't want to get all paranoid, but I'm just saying. We are always told
that all these things with surveillance cameras, fingerprints and
whatnots are there for our protection. To prevent crimes and to protect
the citizens against bad people. What if it really is about keeping an
eye on the people?
Conspiracies and conspiracy
theories is a well discussed subject. We have the events behind 9/11 for
instance. There are a lot of videos concerning this matter. An
interesting one is "In Plane Sight Director's Cut",
which you can find on YouTube. Then there's the climate change and
global warming. The mass media is mostly owned by a small group. Take
the Finnish media for example. Most major magazines are owned by the
same company. If you take a look at the magazines, you find that a
majority of the articles are almost the same. They come from the same
source; the magazines use the same news agencies, which at their part
are owned by a limited group of companies. The sources considered
"reliable" are usually the government and the authorities. But can we
really trust that they are who we should believe? Of course it's a lot
about who we choose to trust. I just think that everyone should look
into the matters from several points of view. I'd like to go back to
global warming. There has been a lot of discussion on whether it is a
hoax or not. A while back I read an article about
scientists that had substantial proof that there in fact is no such
thing as global warming. It is just regular variation. At some point a
new ice age is in fact inevitable...
As a counter
development we have the so called free media, which is (at least trying
to be) independent and looking at things from a different angle. However
it all comes down on who you choose to listen to and trust. The
important thing is to keep an open mind and not believe blindly in
everything you are being told. At least without looking into the matters
from different points of view. That's what I'm trying to do.
