Welcome to my first blog! F.U.M.E. stands for Facts for the Uninformed, Misinformed, and Everybody else! Bear with me and I apologize in advance for any typos and mistakes, I only have my phone for online access. Truth is my mom came up with the name and suggested I start a blog. Thanks, mom! I do feel like I spend alot of time correcting misleading information or just plain filling people in on what's going on the world. And I love doing so! I feel it's very important to stay abreast of the current events. I also feel very strongly it's important to learn all you can about people who are different from yourself. Knowledge creates understanding and empathy. We live in an ever evolving planet, that's increasingly connected. Every day it's more apparent that we all need to pay attention, at least a little bit, to what's going on around us. That's why I'm blogging, to spread info and awareness. Why is it so important?
Remember the chaos theory? Butterfly flaps it's wings, causes a hurricane across the world? That's what's happening everyday! Think of what's happened since one angry young man got fed up and lit himself on fire? If I lost ya I'll explain. That was the event that sparked protests in Tunisia. This young man was well educated but due to rampent corruption in his country and weak economy he could not get a job and lived with his parents. When the food crisis began he decided to give up trying to get a well paying job and decided to open a fruit stand. Corrupt oficials would not give him a permit without paying outragous fines. Years of no hope lead to this moment. In an act of desparation and protest he set himselfan his fruit cart on fire. His act woke People up to say enough is enough! He sparke protests, that lead to a revolution, that sparked more protests, more revolutions, and thank you chaos, your country is put in a position where it must assist in another hostile situation. My point is alot of things are happening that have consequences all over the world.
Droughts, fires, sever weather outbreaks, earthquakes, elitest rule, dictators, scars of colonial rule, increasing population and wealth disparity are all having an effect on our everyday lives. Most immediatley gas prices, then food, then overall cost of living. Here's why it matters, hard times are always made worse when the masses are caught unawares. The wealthy are paying attention. They are making the moves and they can hire full time accountants and lawyers to to keep them unscathed by the consequences of their actions. What do we have? We the underpayed, middle and lower income majority? We have ourselves and eachother! Yay! Good news! It was getting kinda gloomy in here! But there is hope and I see it everyday, all around me. Humans and our socioty are always evolving, growing, and we must learn from what's around us and our past mistakes.
Ok! That's enough knowledge for now! Lol! See why my mom says I should blog? I have lots to say and I'm passionate about it all! I mainly just wanna do what I can to draw attention to things affecting my life and the lives of those around me. I think I'll tell you a little about myself on my next blog. So you'll a little of where my point of view is coming from. Cause ultimately this is my blog. My space to say what I need to say. I'd love comments and conversation to be started. But I do ask all to stay positive and open. And tolerant of eachother. We all don't agree but we must share! Thru the exchange of ideas, life expirienced, and lessons learned we can all make our lives better. Shouting "no!" and spreading malicious content is not productive. It only leads to hurt and discourse. None of us are perfect, so we gotta have tolerance, forgivness, and understanding. And how do you get all that!? By learning! By informing ourselves about the world and people around you! So go! Read something from an opposite point of view, go talk to someone on the other side of the world! Easy on Twitter or Facebook :) bring back what you learned and share it here. I'm curious as to what you learned! I learned yesterday a little about Islam. I'll share, a muslim pointed out to me that in order to be Muslim one must accept Jesus and the bible. That's why there wasn't alot of bible burning after that awful preacher burned the Koran. Hmm! Did not know that and will be looking into it somemore! Ok now your turn!