Look out for me

Not sure whether womazzle will continue.  Google seems bent on making access to it difficult.  

I will try to keep the site open, but this might just be my last post for now.   

I will be around though.  Somewhere.  

Look out for far out bits and pieces about this world and the one to come...

... IF.

Nei-ei-ei-eigh !

We have entered an age of religious warfare once more.

Or should we maybe say, the political war between the former colonizers and the colonized has moved from dirty politics to mighty religion. 

Even if the West is not fighting in these terms (yet), it has been engaged in battle.  The God of the West (is it God or Capital?) has become the declared enemy.

And indeed what a sad culture it is where capital erodes community and the losers are many. 

But I have yet to see a culture where community is not sacrificed to the questionable short term benefit of a few. 

So, off your stumbling horse!!

Teen Mind

The collective mental state of the US populace does not exceed the tender age of fourteen, I swear.  What is that constant fear of state involvement in private matters? 

Whether healthcare, pensions or redistribution, the hysterics are always the same.   Fear sets in when it comes to the spectre of the all powerful parent…uh, state, which threatens to take away decision making powers, curtail painfully obtained freedoms, and generally stifle individuality.

NOT FAIR UGH !!!

The impression of dealing with an immature collective further solidifies when one considers that state involvement in health care (most recently through the introduction of “Obamacare”), redistribution of wealth through taxation, and pensions as currently suggested by Teresa Ghilarducci does exactly that:  provide freedom (from hardship) by providing basic services to allow individuals to focus on the more meaningful aspects of their lives.

The incensed vitriolic launched at anyone suggesting that opportunities may need to be created in the first place so that a greater number of players can participate in the creation and enjoyment of wealth appears truly irrational and bare of any empathetic notion. 

May I suggest that not only are we dealing with an adolescent collective mentality, but actually with that of a bully – most likely male.

For further readings, I strongly recommend Teresa Ghilarducci’s blog:

http://teresaghilarducci.org

Aestival

I believe that each summer we crave to relive the mad exhilaration of childhood. 

Back

At least I saw a couple of DON’T FRACK MICHIGAN stickers on bumpers on this last visit back to the US.

But they were still attached to the same SUV and oversized pick-up truck bumpers. 

I only saw one wind turbine and one house with solar panels in a place that outdoes Northern Europe in sunny days by 4 to 1– and that was on the roof of a self-declared environmental community.  Most new houses just had one outstanding feature:  SIZE. 

Small here is XL.  And most new homes are 2XXL, just like the T-Shirts that say “ Lake Michigan Unsalted” written in fat print across the front.

As always, being back, really feels like being back.

In 1990.