Cognitive surplus!

What really shock me of the video was to realize how many hours we spend watching tv and doing meaningful things, meanwhile the world its crumbling next to us. Nobody can even say that its because they dont know about whats happening, because nowadays we have countless sources of information and different ways to reach them. So if someone dont know about an event or a catastrophe in the world its because he or she doesnt want to know.

Its ironic how people blind themselves and then they are talking about recycling, global warming, diseasses, animal torture, when they are the cosumers of all the products and services that generates that. In my case i became a vegetarian because of the animal torture and because i know that humans dont have the necessity to eat other animal to survive, so why if we dont need it, we cant live without consuming them. I know why.. because we are living in a individualistic, selfish and negligent world where we think we can do whatever we want without consequences, but thats the problem, there are many consequences, that had been affecting us since many years ago but recently we are realizing about them.

For this class im recollecting garbage from the area around the Estero Salado and i think that its a meaningful social labour because it benefits the environment and gathers people to do it, so now not just me spend my free time doing something good for the earth but some other people too.

Here is a quote thar inspired me:

“The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. Many voices are joining the chorus, many feet are walking the path, many minds are dreaming possibilities for a magnificent future. For beneath the crises that are looming at every level of civilization, the global heart is awakening, beating out the rhythm of a new and glorious dance, calling us to a better way of living.”