Roots

This is also one of my favorite personal videos of my li’l web talk show. Please note: you should know my sense of humor right now, ok? Ok. So. I totally know the root of all our problems in this world. Isn’t that cool? We are a culture of symptom treaters. We are really lax on prevention. But wouldn’t it be great if we treated the cause instead of the effect? This is a gross generalization I realize, so of course there are going to be a myriad of exceptions. But, GENERALLY, we tend to focus on the aftermath of a problem instead of the cause. Take immigration. People are super focused on deporting all the illegal immigrants from here instead of focusing on why the hell we have so many illegal immigrants here. Here being where I live, the USA, I mean. We have so many illegal immigrants because we have a lot cushier life than a lot of people who risk their lives to come here. Since the grass is so much greener, people are going to continue to immigrate here whether we like it or not. So deporting ones that get here illegally is not going to fix the problem. We need to revisit work visa programs, allow for more and easier immigration, and enforce regulations for employment and taxation for anyone here. That’s just one example. Any example is the same, though. If we focused on fixing the problems themselves in our culture and society instead of dealing with the effects of the problems — a more preventative approach — things would be a lot better on this here planet. But that’s just this Resident’s two social commentary cents for my web talk show. What’s yours?