I feel compelled to contribute something to humanity.

As a 15 year old street preacher, I was trying to help elevate humanity. When I look back at that kid now, I see the capacity for so much more but a lack of guidance that made my worldview grow wild. As a 20 year old airman, my world view was shaped and molded by discipline and the harsh, unrelenting realities of war and poverty.

The inescapable gravity of a child dying of an incurable disease in Africa is what prevents me from believing that this post-modern world can fit into a literal translation of ANY religious text. I don’t want to get into theology or philosophy too much on this blog, but I think it is relevant to this post.

Here I am now in my 30’s looking back at my life and at humanity as a whole and feeling (knowing) we can do so much better. I want to some how prove it to myself and humanity, but I’m a mere cubicle cog. What can I do? I’ve decided to go back to school, but I don’t want to knock out a 1 1/2 long MS Information Assurance degree. I want to get into science & math because they seem to be the two systems of study most like to limit human suffering and give us answers about who and what life it.

I don’t want (or really need) another industry type degree. If I go for a computer science or computer engineering, it won’t be for more money, or corporate movement to a better cubicle, it will be to have the privilege of understanding and perhaps even to create something that will help us evolve to our greatest potential and limit (if not end) human suffering.

I still want to dabble in security. I’m simply expanding the reach of my capacity to contribute to our movement upward.

RIAA .lol.

One of my favorite groups of all time, the ROOTS, just came out with a new album, “Rising Down”
(?uestion describes the picture: “This drawing is entitled NEGRO RULE. and it pretty much sums up the feeling of the Confederate Union towards the newly freed slaves and the idea that if given power they would reek havoc and chaos on the country.” hardy-har-har OBAMA j/k

So, yeah. I want a digital selection of quality from ROOTS/Rising Down to check out. So I try to find it on their site.. which if freakin’ Myspace page :http://www.theroots.com. I really want to buy their album but their label (defjam) they don’t have anything for my MP3 Player.

The record industry sucks. And they wonder why people steal the music. The record industry has become the firewall in front of the product. They remind me of the Agents in the Matrix:

We have survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them. — Morpeus

Artists need to get away from this old, corrupt bureaucracy like Nine Inch Nails has. NIN has full unimpeded connection with their fans. They sell directly to the customer with no middle man. All their fans can come to there site and talk directly to them, buy their products, talk with each other even re-mix their music.

I wish all my favorite artists allow this kind of access to material.