Am I a Transcendentalist?

Transcendentalists mainly believe that all organized politics and religions are corrupt and corrupt your soul. They believe that you need to be reliant upon yourself only, and the faith that other people will act justly.
I agree that it is good to be reliant upon yourself. It is good to be able to take care of yourself. This leads to a more independent lifestyle. Relying on others can become a habit and lead to laziness and continously being let down. You truly can only rely on yourself in this world and I believe that part of transcendentalism is legitimate.
I do not agree with the abhorance to organized religion. Believing in a divine power is good. It is good to believe that there is something else out there watching over you. Of course you still must make the right choices. But there is peace of mind in thinking that there is something out there that keeps the world running smoothly.
I am not a Transcendentalist. I believe in their ideals of relying on yourself, but I also believe in a greater power, God. I believe that God is watching down on us and making sure we do the right things. As a whole transcendentalism is just to make people think differently and keep them from relying on others to fix their problems. If you can make sure that you take care of your own issues, God will take care of the rest.

Bowling for Columbine

Our culture has been littered with gun violence. You hear about it almost every day--to the point where it's almost normal. I can still remember the days of the Sandy Hook Shootings and the Aurora Movie Theater Shootings. These types of events instill fear into the people and even produce more gun-lovers, ironically. Michael Moore satirically engaged in his own adventure to get to the bottom of this. It was neat how he made some of these people look like fools, yet they had no idea.
Michael Moore is storied for these types of documentaries and his fights against our wars overseas. He visited many places to see what their gun policies were compared to Americas. Interestingly enough, Canada had very similar gun policies to America. Guns were easily accessible, yet their gun deaths per year were less than 100. America's was over 11,000. Something must have been wrong with American society.
There is really no facts about why this is happening. Everybody watches the same movies, plays the same video games, and has the same amount of guns as us. There must be something that's going on in our society, a sense of instilled fear, that is driving unbelievable amounts of gun deaths up.