Free wheeling

Wow! Just about the time you think things will settle down in ones life more stuff comes up. I suppose thats alright, it just never seems like the timing is right. Maybe the timing is perfect for our maximum growth, but that doesn't make it any easier. Ok... I'am using this as a prelude to excuse myself from not writing lately. If its any consolation I have a ton of topics that I would like to talk about but, don't seem to have the time to sit down and put my thoughts together in a complete sentence. So these are some of the topics that have landed on my radar screen as of late that I would love to talk about but just have not had the time.

Grape Nut flakes. Whats up with that....no grapes and no nuts! Although most of the people that I have encountered lately remind me of cereal. I mean what ain't fruits and nuts, is flakes.

Weddings vs. Funerals. Weddings are probably more fun except that funerals get over in about an hour, and weddings can take roughly ten minutes shy of eternity. Especially during football season. I also believe that it is cheaper to put someone in the ground than it is to get married. Your life is not the same after either occasion in any event, but at least we don't have to go through our own funeral multiple times.

If you can't hula hoop without assistance, should you really let your dance instructor talk you into entering a dance competition? I'll have that answer for you sometime in August!

Why are we the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal health care?





If corn oil comes from corn and coal oil comes from coal....where does baby oil come from? Not real sure that I want to know, but it has crossed my mind.





If the stuff that happens to you when you are in your forties happened to you when you were in your twenties...would you really want to live to thirty?





If I go on a date with a blind person do I still have to dress up?





I know I know already. This is some silly assed stuff but you have to admit, a mind given half a chance to free wheel, when left alone can come up with some pretty unorthodox thoughts. On some level letting our minds go of all the programing that we have endured... even for a few minutes can be quite cathartic.

We the people.....

Their have been several articles lately in the local print media concerning the human population in the world and eventual demise of our planet and the people on it. It seems as though that their are numerous factors in regard to this trend. Not the least of which in my opinion has been due to our own intelligence. Yeah it seems weird that we as the smart ones on this planet ( or so we think ) are our own worst enemy. We have created problems today with our intelligence... that we cannot fix with the same intelligence.... that created the problem in the first place! In a nutshell I would like to interject a few of my own random thoughts about this subject, not in any particular order, just some knee jerk things that come to mind. Because this is to vast of subject to try and pick apart on this site and I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to analyse the nuances of demographic populations and the control their of. I think you all would agree.

First and foremost is the advent of agriculture. When you can grow more food you can support more humans. When you have more humans you need more food. Which takes more ground to grow more food to support even more humans. Pretty simple. Ask the native Americans why we put them on reservations...so we could control more ground and grow more stuff, their by reducing the competition. So that we could control our own food source....to support more humans.

Trying to westernize indigenous culture's that are living in perfect harmony with the land that is native to them. I am thinking of Africa in this instance and how we have transformed them from a primarily nomadic culture that traversed the plains. Following the rains and the game animals, to a bunch of people crammed into a couple square miles trying to live the western dream, because we have convinced them that that you are not very developed as a people if you cannot live in a pseudo urbanized setting depleting the immediate surroundings resources. Their by product of which results in depleted food sources, disease, famine, crime, and a host of other problems to great to try and cover.

Medicine and technology. This seems straight forward that their is a lot of us alive today, that wouldn't have survived a hundred years earlier. What with C-sections, drugs, x-rays, etc... me included. But given the chance to play God we by most accounts try to save every living thing that we can. I am just not sure if that was the way it was really intended. In the real world their are checks and balances that keep populations in check. Once that system has been compromised it creates a false sense of reality that we come to believe is real. Which is not real at all. It is an artificially propted up population that over time is destined to fail...because it runs counter to the reality of the natural world.