Do you ever wonder if you know too much, think too much, worry too much? I've been thinking for some time now, what is the price of education and would I take it all back, give all that I know back for a little peace of mind? Today the answer is yes.
I don't want to know how many people's lives are in danger because of U.S. foreign policy.
I don't want to weep at night for dead Iraqis or the desperate people of Darfur (and all of Africa for that matter).
I don't want to think about how many kids right here in the U.S. go to bed hungry.
I don't want to lay awake at night worried that the America I once knew is crumbling all around me.
I want my head to be like it used to be before I went to college, got some global perspective, before I read Chomsky or watched the evening news. I want to go back to the days when the worst thought I had was that my boss was a dick, back when what worried me most was finding a girlfriend.
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