blog.marcwiesner.com

This blog is maintained from California’s Bay Area. It is my sincere belief that the Bay Area has a unique place and potential both within the this experiment that is the United States and at this certainly unique plateau of human history. We are at a place in time when dire decisions and conditions compound themselves in ways that confound most thinkers. At the beginning of the industrial revolution it was easy to see that a single factory along a river, next to a coal mine, spouting out toxins was having an effect on health and the environment within a radius of the chimney and along the river. Now, however, we have so upset the balance of the environment, which has been pretty forgiving, that multi-faceted problems demand broad, multi-faceted solutions.

Solutions, which could be to easily implemented from a technological stand point, are tough sells politically and economically (not that there’s a much difference in the USA between the two fields outside of academics). Rechargeable batteries cost too much, public transportations is unreliable and expensive, solar cells are inefficient. Is that because we don’t have the technology to implement all of these innovations properly? Has our inventive nature hit a natural barrier? No. The only barrier is greed. From an A->B paradigm too few would benefit financially from moving away from our oil-consuming way of life. The United States government, instead of looking out for our well-being, allows its self to be bought out by the financial elites and we, naively, allow America’s Aristocracy to entrench themselves behind the steel veil of democracy.

That seems tangential to anything but it does hit upon the reasons behind this blog. Despite living in one of the most technological regions of the most powerful economic and military entity in the world we suffer the symptoms of a narrow life. Our news is watered down and moderated, owned and operated by men with ever diminishing scruples. We are standing by the sidelines watching our republic turned into a sham, our liberties shredded like corporate records. The duty is incumbent upon us to rectify this condition through the means available to us as we flex the muscles of our freedoms.

I am a student. I am a cynic. I am a critic. In my life I wish to dispel the illusions that aristocracy continually tries to force upon us. In my life I want to connect with people to expand my view of the world and refine my views of the United States. In this blog I will record and report on local events, political activities, and travel as well as the every-day rants and happenings of my life. The goal of this is to share not only the factual or cultural events of my environment, but to offer, in some small way, the experience to read of a life and continuum of experiences not so familiar to your own.

And with that, I humbly offer my welcome and my blessings

March 16, 2009:Since getting the blog running again, I was thinking of updating this along with the other out-of-date pages. But except for some grammar mistakes, the USA is still sadly dragging its heels on reducing consumption of natural resources. I know things can’t change overnight, but when billionaires are using promises of “green” just to line their pockets (just look at the California’s 2008 Prop 10), a person could easily become fatalistic.