I saw this picture on a site and I just had to comment. To all of those out there who feel that they are in a relationship thats odder then a squash and a strawberry in a peapod look at this picture... In the words of the late Micheal Jackson "you are not alone." arent they just so cute... why can't we all just get a long? "we owe nothing but love, just love, sweet love." - Etena
* Note... I just had to put this video in its stinking hilarious LOL GO CAPTAIN PLANET lol read the blog below
Captain Planet Really Was My Hero!
By: Natalie M. Date: January 25, 2010
“Captain Planet he’s our hero Gonna chase pollution down to zero Gonna help him put [them] (2) under Bad guys who like to loot and plunder…” (1)
The lyric of this song plays in my mind every now and again. I can remember waking up early Saturday mornings in the 90’s as a kid and watching what many would describe today as good wholesome television. Yes they were cartoons, and even though back then it was manly for entertainment and enjoyment, subconsciously we were learning great wonderful tidbits of knowledge about our environment and planet. This knowledge came so clear to us in a manner that we could understand then easily, yet the concept was so big that we still cherish it and heed to those same teachings in our more mature years. Those were the days.
So, why are there no prominent environmental shows for the younger generations of today? How will they learn to take care of our planet? It is sad to say that there are very scares preprogramming like Captain Planet available to the young generations of today. No more television shows like Captain Planet, Tarzan, Smurfs, Widget the World Watcher, or even Bill Nye the Science Guy. These shows that talked about saving the planet, respecting the animals, learning to speak for nature and its inhabitants when they are not able to speak for themselves, and better understanding the habitat that we call home have now been replaced with shows of a more popular economic consumer motive. Show’s like Degrassi : The Next generation, Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Digimon that would benefit big media corporations not only by the amount of views they had on their shows but by marketing strategies that helped them to create consumer products like action figures, card games, fashion accessories and clothes that related to the show for kids to get their parents to buy it for them. This is now where the money and the motives lay and the younger generations are being sucked into their trap like a swarm of bees to honey.
There needs to be a change. Television networks need to install more environmentally friendly TV programming for the younger generations like they did when I was growing up. It helped my generation to be more environmentally alert citizens which is lacking in those who are coming up after us. It seems that as consumerism takes the lead as a popular trend the media could care less about environmental consciousness being sold out as well. It is wrong, saddening and immoral from many view points. Having shows like Captain Planet in my youth has helped me to become a more environmentally conscious person, and many people of my generation who I have gotten an opportunity to talk about our influences for environmental choices that we make often point back to television shows that we had watched and enjoyed during our youth. I see the difference when I look at how my brother and sister interact with their environment only being three to five years apart from me, they have missed out on being able to be impacted by these shows that have helped me to understand that it is indeed wrong to throw my garbage on the street, or that we should take every opportunity we can to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. These values are now harder for them to grasp where as to those like me it becomes our second nature.
What are we to think when the media presents such a dual message to us? On one hand they are begging for us to wake up and change because we are now at a point where we see the negative impact that our negligence has done to our planet, and on the other hand they are feeding the younger generations of tomorrow the notion that it is okay to remain practicing these careless acts of over indulgence, and consumerism from their tender ages. The same minds that they are polluting could otherwise be the impacting change for a greener future with the right mind set and values instilled into their lives. Words like…
“We're the planeteers, You can be one too! 'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do, Looting and polluting is not the way, Hear what Captain Planet has to say:” (1)
I for one am grateful for the sense of power these shows let me understand that I posses as a person who is willing to help keep our planet as healthy as possible. I believe that by putting back shows like these on the television for the younger generations to watch enjoy and learn we can gain a greater much needed response for the future. They need to understand that…
“THE POWER IS [THEIRS] (3) !”(1) too.
CYA, RESPECT
Reference:
(1) Lyrics to captain planet theme song provided by: www.lyrics007.com (2) us original word replaced with {them} (3) YOURS original word replaced with {THEIRS}
* INTRO: just in the spirit of taking action within our global community here are some words written by Natamil and G-Slient about Social Responsibility. SOAK IT IN YAL!
Poverty stricken societies don't matter; if you hungry or sick people still throwing food in garbage as if its water that replenishes itself through the earth’s impeccable filters. How many people are dying each day? Have you ever asked yourself if you are even trying? Africans and other members of third world countries suffering the worst times and people likes us are so spoiled. If I had a chance I'd trade my life they deserve it more than us people who are skinny and think its good, while they are dying because they can’t eat. And fat people eat too much. So that it’s hard to walk with so much weight. The balance is uneven, yet we are so perfect at masking it all, trying to maintain this unequal balance.
You only have one time, one chance, at the right time to live for this moment, concentrating on nothing less than the future. The earth its people our societies, communities, races, and species those are our concern now and forever, live in this moment for them.
Watching television we see people who need clothes on their back, food on the table, a roof over their heads. We have more precipitation of people fleeing their countries of origin to congregate with the masses of submerged needs and dreams governed and implanted by the greater supremacies that undermine, despise, and exile even the purest traces of our diverse ethnicities then we have the nourishing precipitation of water. All of this is because our people are losing their way that's why it’s best to send them to different countries; for the better or the worse. Whether or not you see them again, it doesn’t matter because survival is the key. Not together but apart when they can stop a group, they cannot single you out alone. But how does it feel to be alone?
How does it feel to be poor and struggling to get a pay check only to pay it out to everyone else so that they can feast on the fruits of your labor? To have to strip to get food stamps, girls are selling their body for money, and guys selling drugs and dropping out of school. People not getting the chance to live their lives up to 20, and if you past those premature years you are considered lucky?
As a matter of fact look in the mirror you’re lucky. You’re living while others died they can't live any longer. There is no more “always fight till the end,” because the end was all they were fighting for.
We still live in a world where young kids are working for their families, others putting money away to save up just enough to get out. Who would have even thought that it could be as simple as some paper with numbers on it, some coins with a special stamp could be the key and answer to a persons freedom. Then we look at it and think who is really in control.
It’s hard watching these shows it’s sad to be a kid and have flies on my face cuts and bruises on my skin. How can I save them, have you ever stopped to think? About their lives or lack of life, and how we live our life, or rather give it away? About the unequal balance that we fight so hard to keep? Have you ever tried? All I know is that I think about them each day. I pray that one day it will come together, let us see you living only once, cause it never comes twice, and strive to give your kids, our kids, their kids the things even better then what you’ve got.
“It’s our responsibility “A thought on Recent events in Haiti Blog #2 Where can I begin? When I heard about the events that had happened on the little island called Haiti to be honest it didn’t register to me what exactly had happened. I heard very little about it because I don’t really listen to the local news due to the fact that it is often filled with stereotypical degradations of ethnic minorities who commit crimes in urban dwellings against their own people but anyways that is a story for another time. So in my mind I thought it was just some minor tremor that was over exaggerated to add some hype to the news stations. The big story for the beginning of the year, the one they mention just before 2011 rolls in as one of the great stories of 2010. But how sad it is for me to say that I was wrong and this was not the case, the devastation is indeed very grave, and if anything the news reporters could not explain enough how much of a tragedy the earthquake is. Although I cannot explain why things like these happen and will not ever try to justify a reason for hundreds of thousands of lives being “stole” as I like to call it, I will address two issues out of the insurmountable number of issues that has arisen and probably will continue to arise concerning the way that we as humans, as societies, global communities, and sentient beings react, respond, and relate to this catastrophe. 1. It Is Our Responsibility… One of the things that I have observed with this event in particular in comparison to events that have happened in the past is the willingness and urgent responsiveness to this situation. What I mean is we have taken it upon ourselves as a global community to help out Haiti. This is something that I have not seen before with recent events. Or rather the level of camaraderie that we are showing in the few days that this tragedy has happened has never been demonstrated before on this level. We are very aware of the Katrina situation, in which even though many people were touched and trouble by the devastation, the urgent press to help was not demonstrated as quickly as it is being demonstrated now. I sit and wonder what could be the cause for this? And I figure that because there was a public accusation directed to the government especially the American government with not helping out its own citizen’s people are now trying to make up. Now that’s just what I think. And frankly this sense of guilt that has swept us as a nation, continent, and global society is working towards their benefit and eventually our benefit. After all I truly without a doubt believe that these sorts of situations are our responsibility, to help our fellow persons in times of devastation and hopelessness is something that we must take on ourselves. And it pains me to see when these situations happen that it is only a few who take on the reigns and run to the rescue. Too many times have crossed my path where people are unable to empathetically react, respond, and relate effectively towards these situations, especially in North America where these sorts of catastrophes rarely occur. Many people look at the news and basically pass it on and would never think twice about doing something or taking action. I would really like to know if it is a matter of the situation being too big that we think it very hard to even take time to make ourselves knowledgeable about the situation. Or is it that we do not care? Whatever the case may be people I urge you to take some action. Even if it is giving a donation to a charity that will appropriate the funds accordingly to help others who are in need. Things do not mend themselves and if everyone sits down and refuses to take a stand then there will be no progress. Never think that the little you can do won’t make an impact. We need to understand that everything that is done whether for good or for bad affects something, or someone out there. So when you do something to help it affects the life of even one person, and that one life counts. YOU count. So make a better change today!
I will continue with part II another time… 2. Cheating Ourselves to Win…
Now before I start let me just say that this is not an attack on the boyz doing the dance. Dey don’t kno betta lmao. It is solely a critic on all these new dumb ass dances coming out with even dumber titles. Before we do that lets just get some history involved. According to my knowledge this recent trend with new dances started all the way in the Caribbean islands. The places most infamous for their dancehalls, islands like J.A. (Jamaica), Guyana, Barbados. This is where it all began. (Figuratively speaking cause we know that the 50’s was filled with new trend dances popping out like a baby’s head in labor.)Elephant Man coming out with his ground breaking dancehall video “Signal di Plane” and his even more intriguing dance moves that people could actually do. LOL it was never a challenge to wave two hands in the air like you were hauling down the bus to avoid being late for work. And so it evolved from Elephant Man and Sean Paul, all the way down to Solider Boy, and Young Jeezy. There could be no more drastic of a change. I mean it started out being something that everyone could do and enjoy but now it’s like you have to get your own personal dance trainer to learn all these moves, only to look retard. I’d rather not. CYA , Respect.
*n dem boi deh mek da jerk look gud doe i aint gonna lie
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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