Summary of 'well on the way to eradicating poverty.

This article talks about how poverty in Latin America is one of the biggest threats to democracy, and how in Chile poverty has decreased faster than anywhere else in Latin America. Chile is constantly investing in anti-poverty campaigns, telecommunications and infrastructure. The article also mentions their former president Pinochet and the Marxist government before him led by Salvador Allende. In Chile within 3 years poverty fell from 19.9 down to 12.3 in 2006, and even though there are still 2.2 million people living with less then 90$ a month, it is a great improvement since in other South American countries the poverty line is still up at 40% of the population. Chile is on its way to achieving a eradication of poverty.

what is Cool?

How can cool make up our social hierarchy, as being popular or un popular when part of the definition of cool means emotionally unaffected and/or lack of interest. It used to be that cool meant engaged and loud, being part of a movement against society. To rebel you need to be able too, scream out loud, say your point and stand up against all or most authority. How does the definition of cool fit now, because 40-50 years ago cool meant to be a rebel. Now cool is uninvolved and following mainstream. So I find cool has not changed but lost its definition.

How can you rebel in a society where everything is pre-packaged?

In our society today everything is pre-packaged, made ready for it to be sold to the individual, once it is sold the individual has become general. Through globalization and worldwide companies we get lost in society and everybody is starting to become the same. We need to smash these businesses to regain our identity, our individuality, we are supposed to get involved, not have everything shoved down our throats. The only way to fight this oppression of brands is to avoid buying their products. Go for the least mainstream products, don't support millionaires with more wealth and think outside the box, outside of what for teenage built media. The teen media is what is responsible for building a more and more homogeneous population.
What the media does is, interview popular people and then they develop a product and sell it as new and cool. A big part of western society is dependant and controlled by this media and products, they make who each group of individuals are. The way to rebel is either too reach back to old products or to be really "uncool" and not buy all these new media influenced mainstream products.
Another way of rebelling is, braking laws and going against authorities. One of the problems with rebelling is the danger of being fined or charged for a crime. In our society we are all controlled, I think were like lab rats, in this example the government and media are the scientists and the people are the rats. It’s like they throw in different toys and then try to find which is the most popular among the rats.
To rebel you have to always stay one step ahead of the media and government control, some rebellious artists master the beginning of becoming a rebel. Sadly the media adopts and makes these artists mainstream where they have lost their status of rebellion. As you see these days the media has developed a system of which the main businesses of mainstream media controls nearly everybody. The way to stay rebellious against these companies is just to reject all their new products and music. Try to reach back to past decades like the 60s when the peace movements and the term teenager was made just a few years earlier. Rebellion was the biggest part of cool then, and to stay rebellious now, you need to reject all media influence and ignore all government control.
Stay rebellious and be aware of the constant manipulation surrounding your daily lives.

Sony and what do they own?

They own music,movies, TV, games and electronics.

Vaio

MicroVault

Playstation

Sony Ericsson

Sony BMG

Sony Wonder

Sony Pictures

Sony Online entertainment