selfish intentions??
September 29, 2006you know i sat in a journalism class a few days ago and i couldn’t believe it.
tsunami? blank stares
rwanda? blank stares
there they are. the young, the bright, our next generation of journalists. and they have no clue what is going on in the world. and this isn’t the first time i saw this going on. it happened last year when a professor wrote “darfur” on the board, and nobody could identify it. please.
the professor summed it up. americans are concerned with themselves before anything else. to the extent of being selfish.
and then people are surprised that the anti-american sentiment is on the rise. at least william jefferson seemed to care. he made a point talking to mike wallace that he turned the world’s view of america around. and that’s true, there was a lot of respect for him. and people hated him because of a little something on the side with an intern. fucking please. firstly its his private life and didn’t affect his presidency. if he’d been stealing money for her, oh yes. secondly, the divorce rate in this country is above 50%. this shit happens all the time. so who cares.
i digress.
anyways.
all i can say is wake the fuck up. i had this same conversation with my friend in japan. R.G. is going places let me tell you that. and though personally i didn’t agree with him all of the time, i know he’s going places. give it a few years and he’ll come up on the political radar.
wake the fuck up. this crap isn’t going to fix itself. and the next generation of “journalists”, the next generation of people doesn’t seem to give a shit. you’ll have to fix it. you can enjoy life (read: get wasted every weekend), but you can also pay attention to what’s going on outside your backyard.
this man is paying a lot of attention. and i believe his rhetoric has some amazing power:
his words are very very powerful, and very wise. all the best in the future.
and he has soft hands. must use moisturizer or something.
could work on his handshake.
there was also this man, who’s not quite as powerful. but he was still a baller.
DWF
works for TIME Magazine and Redux Photography. and shoots a six.
and now i am going out for a drink. all of mine was confiscated and poured down the drain. i’ve never wished so much for a glass of chivas.
c’est la vie
fucking laws.
i’m off to see a band with a friend and his friend. shoot some trix+2 perhaps.
i put in my applications for uni next year. i put down photo. as my first preference… 2nd and 3rd year i can majour in pj. the course looks pretty good. im keen. and careful not to be constrained at the same time!
peace.
narh. I mean: when someone like dubya becomes president it’s way beyond repair, buddy.
sauve qui peut…
V
looks good brotha.. musta been nice kicking it with a redux photog.. does iowa have a good viscom program??
i like the images.. that flag is a fierce background.
hope all is well!
those blank stares sound familiar. i was just at a lecture yesterday with over fifty people, and nobody seemed to know what happened in Europe 1789.
most kids only know seem to anything about catwatks,hollywood, and mtv.
i’ve been saying that for years. our generation is very unsettling sometimes.
hooray for the sandwich. have you been talking to him much?
so, first off Good freakin stuff here. Ive seen your dA work which is also impressive. I dig the Obama photos, so true that hes got a great voice for our future. Hope the dems are patient enough to not nominate him in ‘08. Too soon I think. Anyways, Ive met Danny Frazier too. Ive shot a few things with him around Iowa. I work for the Iowa State University paper so we were both shooting some political stuff. Small world.