Politico in the making

A dear friend of mine recently reminded me of a music video making the YouTube rounds called "Canadian Please."  This spawned a wholly unrelated spin into the world of, well, spin. I started off on a suggested piece about from the Fox News network's satire show called "Red Eye" about Canadian troops pulling out of Afghanistan. An upsetting piece for us Canadians, to be sure. This spilled into a whole bunch of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson video evidences, along with some diverging into The Daily Show, particularly with the tete a tete he had with Jim Cramer of Mad Money over the economic meltdown. The merry-go-round of economic/political discourse I encountered did not merely contain such nuggets, of course.

Now, I am not writing to debate the intelligence levels of any of the parties involved. I most certainly have my opinion there. But this is not the point of my blog here: it is simply to share that a small bit of entertainment has created in me, well, striking levels of intellectual entertainments. I find myself thinking differently. I feel inquisitive. I have discovered something out of all these "experts" disagreeing with one another: it's called curiosity. I am searching, probing, analyzing, cross-referencing, back-checking, validating, counterpointing all over the place. This has been up to now a sadly lacking activity for me.

I also discovered something else: I feel more informed. It is an empowering thing, and the more informed I get, the more I feel enabled to form my own opinion, to defend that view, and to begin to help educate my peers on these things.

So, my dear friend merely attempted to entertain me for a moment. It worked. However, it opened a new sense of curiosity in me that has sprung open, for lack of a better metaphor, a pandora's box of consequence. I fully expect it to be a major positive influence in the road that lays ahead presuming that I shall continue to pursue this course of action.