Let it Be… Again

Let it be that I may fill this glass

Let it be the bully in class

Let it be the Beatles too

Let it be she really knew.

Let is be he walked away,

Let it be I still hear him say.

Let it be for love that is lost

Let it be the northern frost

Let it be your freedom to speak

Let it be the havoc you did wreak.

Let it be, Mohammed did preach

Let it be so did Jesus teach.

Let it be you or me

Let it be we are all free

Let it be yourself in all

Let it be even when you fall.

Let it be the villains of peace

Let it be the victims deceased.

Let it be the inside job

Let it be the wall street hog

Let it be the one percent

Let it be the Kennedy that went.

Let it be shootings of schools

Let it be government fools.

Let it be the power of art

Let it be the power of heart.

Let it be new world order

Let it be the lost soldiers.

Let it be breaking up

Let it be California cops.

Let it be gangs or drugs

Let it be angry thugs.

Let it be white or black

Let it be taking everything back.

Let it be all the hate

Let it be the candidate.

Let it be the death of stars

Let it be the disease SARS

Let it be cancer, and all the others

Let it be the grievance of mothers.

Let it be highschool drama

Let it be relying on karma.

Let it be fate and chance

Let it be the blood of Lance.

Let it be the terrorists

Let it be throwing fists.

Let it be losing touch

Let it be taking too much.

Let it be abortion rights

Let it be the Hollywood lights.

Let it be homosexual or straight

Let it be Duchess Kate.

Let it be world wide riots

Let it be meaning nothing by it.

Let it be economic crisis

Let it be vote bias.

Let it be online piracy

Let it be feeling mediocrity.

Let it be oil drilling

Let it be excessive billing.

Let it be to your debt

Let it be not living yet.

Let it be natural disaster

Let it be the puppet master.

Technology Breakthrough.

The advancement in technology in the last three decades has been very rapid. Not only has it made things simpler in being more complex, but it has DEFINED a new generation. That generation, of course, being MY generation. This is our voice. This is the MILLENIAL PERSPECTIVE.

Technology has come a long way since the radio. Fifty years ago, nobody would have dreamed of  a network connecting the world creating THE global village in the internet. Our parents never would have thought about having a world of knowledge at our fingertips. Geologically in fact, approximately 200 years ago we had nothing for technology really, and what is 200 years in the lifespan of mother earth? Pretty much nothing. It is ASTOUNDING how far we have gotten in such little time.

Technology, specifically the most recent stuff (as it is changing every day) has made life simpler. Specifically the cell phone category. Cell phones have basically become portable computers with more going for them. My iPhone, for example, can do ALMOST everything my laptop can, plus make calls and text messaging. I can do my online banking while I am at the beach, I can check the news while I am on break at work, I can check my email on the bus, and read ragecomics while I lay in bed. People do not give enough credit to this advancement of technology, but everyone admits to one thing: They Love It.

More complex than the advancement of phones however is the even more recent breakthrough of the Cloud. The Cloud is very complex to the most of us (specifically our parents, the last Analog generation) but to simplify it, it binds all our devices into one storage location. Usually this is done through accounts, i.e: Logging into my itunes account on my laptop will bring up the same things on my iphone, my desktop, my ipad, etc. This is the ultimate in connectivity, and is certainly the future of technology.

Imagine, if you will, using the Cloud for employment, for example. Files of employees can be saved to this network, and when these employees go on to do better things, their files move with them, this may even eliminate job hunting, and may actually allow employers to find the exact employee they are searching for just by clicking a few buttons. This same system could go into policing, making the law easier to uphold worldwide, preventing criminals from running.

Certainly video gaming will adopt this technology, and in fact it has already in SONY. The Playstation 3 works on an account system similar to other Cloud devices, and so, this allows Sony more room to expand with future (and present) projects. The Vita being the newest addition to a great franchise. You can be playing a game on your PS3 one minute, and pick up right where you left off on the Vita on your way to work (if you’re busing, I don’t suggest driving and trying this). Sony if the founder of the new generation of gaming because of this, and will lead the charge for many years to come.

With this technology, however, does come with some potential of terrorism. Hacking specifically. For example, The Playstation Network was crippled by hackers in 2011, however, since then Sony has strengthened their security and hasn’t had any issues since. However, hacking is something that scares everyone who understands it, but for those that don’t I will simplify it for you. Hacking enables anyone with the determination and knowledge of programming (among other things) to access your device, network, etc. And do what they wish with it. Stealing documents, adding viruses, depending on the ability of this hacker, they could do anything with your life, in this future of technology. This is the future of Terrorism moving into the next generation, and cloud technology, and companies are aware of this, so they are coming prepared. Companies know not to bring a knife to a gun fight when it comes to their consumer being at risk. So do not fear the Cloud, embrace it, but don’t forget where we came from.

Credit Crisis.

In this day and age you are seen as a different entity if you do not have a credit card. But in the current economic state, I wonder why this still remains the case. Since credit cards came to be, they have been seen as a status symbol, ‘all the rich and powerful people have them so does that mean I can be rich and powerful if I have this piece of plastic?’ is something that might have been going through the mind of many people worldwide when credit cards were introduced to the world. Almost everyone I know my age has one, and almost all of them regret it. Not only that, it is BECAUSE of credit that we are in the economic crisis we are in today. People didn’t seem to understand that credit, though it is an invisible currency, it has real repercussions. This adds even more interest rates, where they charge extra to people who don’t even have the money. What does anybody get out of this situation? Well… I suppose bankruptcy, foreclosures, and ultimately the death of the American dream. To me the American Dream is the idea of a society where you can be what you want, and do what you want however you want, so long as you are not hurting yourself or others in the process. Ultimate freedom. The United States was founded on such beliefs, was it not? This is a universal ideal, freedom. What does freedom mean in a world with an invisible currency? Well, it simply does not exist. When people can be weighed down by invisible chains, they will never grow, though you cannot see the chains, it does not mean they are any less heavy. Credit can, and has destroyed new businesses, and businesses that have been around for a long time.  Just like the housing market, it pulled the proverbial carpet from under everyone’s feet, but very few were left standing.

Credit cards can come in handy from time to time. Perhaps your getting paid tomorrow but you have no money to eat tonight, just put it on the card and pay it off when you get paid. Perhaps your in college (like myself) and you need your text books but you can’t pay for all of them at the start of the semester. Put it on the card and pay for half one paycheque and half the next. In these ways, in precautionary ways, credit cards excel. I believe every student should have one, just in case of an emergency, and anyone who attends college knows from day one that these emergencies happen often. I applied for a credit card once, only to get declined. I didn’t understand because my credit rating was amazing, I have never missed a bill in my life, my whole family has a great track record. When I put more thought into it, I decided I didn’t really need one at the time, I’m sort of glad I didn’t re-apply. Though I am a student, I like the challenge of balancing paycheques. Also, scholarship money helps too.

Before, when, for example, a new film maker wanted to break out, he would borrow money. Maybe not just from one source, but likely a bank was involved at some time. Banks would give out loans, and add interest rates on the loan based on how much was borrowed, and how long it takes to pay it back. Credit cards are based on this ideal. Cheap, and easily accessible loaning of money, or credit. This seems innocent enough, only when everyone has these loaning devices, even the unemployed and the welfare lifers, something is wrong. Why are credit card companies loaning money to people who simply do not have it? Because they can charge interest? Perhaps they missed the lesson in grade 3 where anything multiplied by zero is still zero. In this case, you can’t go zero to hero either. As King Lear said in Act one to his daughter “Nothing will come of nothing”. All the current system of credit does before giving the cards out is they check the applicants current credit rating. For most people, it’s all downhill from there. Put yourself in debt, allow that debt to get additional charges on it, and watch yourself paying bill after bill for the rest of your life, not able to go anywhere because you had to have all those things that nobody needs. Maybe your wife goes shopping from time to time and spends a few hundred dollars, maybe you wanted a nice sports car. Capitalism is only a destructive force when you become careless enough to let it. Don’t be so hasty to point that finger, because it is all your fault.