Mental Health Day

            Every year, Webster updates their dictionary to have the newest common slang terms. After reading some of them in an article for The Times Daily, http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080908/articles/809080321 I found it funny that one of the words was “mental health day” a phrase that I am accustomed to hearing. I wondered what could have caused this to be a common phrase in our society.

            I took this further in my mind and I’m not lying to you, I really have spent some time trying to figure this out. What I think is that people no longer have anything to live for. In a world full of cubicles, suburbs, and housewives, the perfect life is not fulfilling the requirements for sanity. For this reason, movies like Fight Club are so popular. Despite speculation that this movie is popular due to Brad Pitt’s frequent shirt negligence, I believe it to be because this movie gives hope to the millions of Americans who are struggling with themselves to find what it is exactly that makes them happy, and not what they are told should make them happy.

            Is it natural for humans to live the way that they do, and just sit around and work at a computer? Maybe because of our higher brain function, we really are meant to be that civilized. But if you ask me, I will tell you that there is more to life. All that we need to do is to figure out for ourselves what that is.

Invincibility

Now here is a frightening notion. We are now making practical technology that can make paper that is stronger than steel. This paper is called buckypaper and is a revolutionary technology that now seems like an item of the future. When it is compounded it can make a sheet that is 500 times stronger than steel and ten times lighter.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/17/buckypaper.invention.ap/index.html

 

In the end, it mentions that the military is researching this technology. Now what better to take all the fun out of war than a soldier wearing this stuff? But in all seriousness, consider this my argument. It is a fact that every major technological advance in weaponry has caused an increase in technology for armor. But with this switch, we can only imagine the weapon that would be needed to penetrate armor like this.