Our government should provide more incentives for future innovations

I believe that Intelligence has the potential to be the most rewarding investment in today’s society. With computers, humans have reached a point where both hardware and software development have converged into two categories.  Technology that is produced for extracurricular activities and technology designed more for the needs of businesses.  The recreational side is a trophy to human intelligence.  It connects our world by bringing family and friends together.  However, future development looks to solve a problem that no longer exists.  As a side effect, our current generation grows underdeveloped, unmotivated, and unable to produce innovations that benefit the world around them.  This has grown to be accepted in education and is compounded by companies who capitalize on human inefficiency.  With discipline, human intelligence can fulfill their ethical obligations, making a smarter and more efficient world.  

Our government would seem to have the biggest role to play on this issue.  With the further simplification of technology, our educational system needs to be further simplified and rewarded as such.  We should provide more incentives for those aiming to offer constructive innovations to our society by lowering tuition costs and provide funding for instituting well thought out  and more practical degree programs more centralized around  certain fields.  Along with education, our government needs to do a better job of recognizing and financially supporting current underfunded research.  Some prime examples would be The Leviating Dipole Experiment at MIT, The Homer Machine at the University of Wisconsin, and the Thomas Jarbe CT Fusion group at The University of Washington.  All of which lay way for the future benefits of Nuclear Fusion, whom without future government funding will cease to exist.

Journalism in South Africa could be dangerous for the US

Nina Mast posted an article titled Far-right activists are teaming up with white supremacists to exploit South African politics for the blog Media Matters for America.  Where she criticizes the active journalism taken place in South Africa, which currently is trying to gain sympathy for the white minority.  Nina goes on to expose the two Far-right activists, making clear that their ideologies on the matter are much deeper and more cynical than just "equality."  Both Katie Hopkins and Lauren Southern represent an unethical side of journalism that replaces theatrical drama with actual facts.

Even though Katie Hopkins' and Lauren Sothern's take on journalism does not deserve recognition from any forms of media, it is important to have an idea of how South Africa has been struggling with much more than just racial tensions for the last few decades.  For example, Nina fails to mention that the economical collapse of  Zimbabwe was caused by much more than black and white entitlement or racial issues.  It was a repercussion of the Congo War, the HIV / AID epidemic, and inexperienced farmers inability to capitalize on newly distributed land.

I believe this type of journalism, due to its content and unprofessionalism, can be extremely dangerous here in the US.  Some of these "far-right trolls" stand to be the greatest hidden threat in society.  They have been waiting patiently to come out, and articles like this give them an incentive to make their presence known.   With the left continuing to push on certain issues, and the far right encouraging their behavior with journalism like this.  We find ourselves getting closer and closer to see how real neo-nazis actually think & reason things, which to me at least, is very very frightening.