No rant, just a video:

I really hate getting into politics because it takes way too much time for a result of not much. I see the simple act of voicing one's opinions much more detrimental to changing something. The following video's speaker isn't the best speaker but he makes some good points. The "Stonewall" he mentions can be explained more in depth here, but basically they were a set of riots June 28, 1969 advocating gay rights.
Courtesy of FORA.tv, which is evidentially pretty similar to TED:



So, now that I think about it and can question, how much progress has been upheld for the sake of "more important" items? How much have the liberties of the people - the so called upholders of this country - been forsaken by our so called leaders and politicians?

"Well I perceive that never sated is
Our intellect unless the Truth illume it,
Beyond which nothing true expands itself.

It rests therein, as wild beast in his lair,
When it attains it; and it can attain it;
If not, then each desire would frustrate be.

Therefore springs up, in fashion of a shoot,
Doubt at the foot of truth; and this is nature,
Which to the top from height to height impels us."

- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto IV

Your friend,
Alex