What is the difference between dissent and propaganda?

....no one?

Great. Me neither. And the midterm is tomorrow.

I don't know. I'm starting to think everyone is a vassal of propaganda. We've all got our own opinions, shaped by various elements, but in the end, what comes out of our mouths (or doesn't), ultimately ends up being a form of personal propaganda, or rather, bias. There is a subtle difference, really only in that one is an exaggerated and blatant form of the other. But they're both equally powerful.

LMAO then dying of boredom.

I was doing research on mutual funds this week, and one of the articles said (and I paraphrase), "most college students care more about updating their iPods than RRSPs".

Quite something, as that morning my mother had been "gently reminding" me to start thinking about RRSPs, despite my "I'm retiring in 45 years" argument, and all the while I was thinking, man, I need to put some new songs on my Nano.



But I mean, look at those happy people (though they're missing the "registered" part of the acronym). They've just set up an (R)RSP. Could they be happier?



But right now I'm panicking, as I only have about a millimetre's worth of battery left on mine, and I have to walk to Jarvis and Carlton in an hour. Will it last? What if it doesn't? Will that mean I'll have to actually listen to the sounds of the city? Somehow the frantic nature of my face when I saw my battery life is no comparison to the smiling faces of those two financial freedom posterpeople.

Kinda makes you wonder, then. Should we start thinking about RRSPs?

Okay. Stifling a yawn. Encourage your friends who are battling insomnia to consider this issue.

I guess my question really is, what is maturity? At what point will we start saying "said", instead of "like"? (That's something I've always wondered. What age do you make the transition. I don't know. There should be like a bar mitzvah (or just mitzvah) for that kind of thing.) At what point will things like RRSPs actually start meaning something to us?

That day is certainly not today, at least not for me. I've gotta go charge this thing.