Jason Najum's Blog, page 4
July 19, 2012
Going…going…gone? (TSN990 and what really matters)
How much is too much?
Does more always equal better?
Do we need to review our definition of value?
These are some of the questions that arise when I sit down long enough with the “big” questions. As you dig down beneath the surface of an issue, getting underneath the common arguments, reducing the points down to their purest form – you often end up with these sort of existential questions.
Problem is that when you’re dealing with an issue that is seemingly straightforward and black and white, the...
June 28, 2012
Ohh Canada
Like most young Canadians I know little of our past.
Sure I remember the Plains of Abraham, and Sir John A. Macdonald, and some other random bits from grade 10 history. But to be honest, that’s about it. (and I had to Wikipedia those to refresh my memory). I could give you a pretty decent summary of the major events of WWII, yet know next to nothing of the role our country played. I have spent countless hours watching and reading about America’s Revolutionary War but have no idea how our own n...
June 21, 2012
I used to love her, but I had to kill her (lament for American politics)
For a long time I was addicted.
It started with CNN. Was sorta like training wheels, an “Intro to Cable News” 100-level beginner’s course that covered all the basics without getting too specific. The major subjects were there, always with the right graphics and flashing lights, but after a few years the Best Political Team On Television justwouldn’tcut it anymore. The waving flags and constant Breaking News exaggerations began to lose theirluster. I kept going back for more and kept leaving di...
June 14, 2012
Quebec student protests – take the detour and be thankful
Tolerate the road closures and delays to your schedule. Endure the demonstrations and banging of pots. See past the muddled message and unfocused anger.
Because there is something very important behind these never-ending protests, something that is getting lost in all this right or wrong, us vs them.
The same thing happened during the Occupy protests. Hundreds of thousands in cities around the globe committing themselves to weeks out in the cold in order to say, out loud and to the world, that...
