Must be overwhelming

How many times have you thought about how you would spend a million if you won a lottery? And when you did think about it did you include doing something for the homeless? Or for single moms? or for the elderly?
When you hear about all these very rich people why do you never hear that THEY SUPPORT LOCAL FOOD AND HOMELESS CENTRES? Companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Bloomberg. They all have the wealth to help with this, they could make a difference. But share holder value is apparently more important then helping your fellow man. Conservatives do not like this, they think it's every man (and women I guess) for themselves. Less government, more poverty is the agenda. Clean water? Clean air to breath? Nope, not important. And then there is education!
It is very clear, the more people are educated, the better their chances at having a better life. Most of the problems in this world are from a lack of education. I'm happy that more and more information is available online, and think this is making a difference, but you still need to be with your peers to help in understanding things.
No, I think most are just overwhelmed with this. It's just too much to think about helping when you can think about having instead.
7 billion, keeping it for themselves, and counting.

They want work

In many places around the world the youth are revolting. It would seem that many are without a future, no jobs, no money and no hope. This is going to sneak up on us and bite us hard where it hurts the most.
I'm at a loss in figuring out how this will be rectified. Many of these countries have upwards of 50% unemployment for people under 25. You have all seen these reports, and you all are likely very happy to be living here where it so far has not affected us. My question is this, what are the 50% employed thinking about? Are they happy to have work and therefor not interested in taking part in these protests?
I grew up in the 60's/70's and remember the protests that were happening then. It would seem we are treating this like they treated us back then. In other words they are doing nothing, sweeping it under the rug so to speak. Hey this worked back then didn't it? All the hippies and protesters went to work and that was that.
I feel this time these kids can't do that, austerity is kicking them square in the junk and those that make decisions are looking out for themselves only, and that is a shame. One thing is for certain, these kids have energy and numbers, and if things do not get better this is going to be the hot button of this generation. A new economy is needed, our brightest need to figure this out soon. Will we all pitch in or will we argue till nothing gets done.
Billions without hope and counting.

Indecision

I've been absent for a few days as I am preparing my garden for the current year. I have decided that I will raise my growing beds as this is much better for both the plants and for me as I will not be bending over as much. There are of coarse many more reasons to do this but those two alone make that an easy decision.
But what has me stumped is how exactly I'm going to build them. I've changed my mind at least a dozen times and today I need to order the wood needed to build these raised beds. I'm trying to be efficient and have it work for any crop or situation that comes up.
There lies the rub, unlike most animals on this planet we are always at odds with what to do. Even when we are not, someone else has another way to do it and will argue their case. Then it comes to who has rank and the money, although that does not always get it done.
Nope, as a race we are always unsure of what we are doing and procrastinate on getting it done. Politicians are incredibly good at this, debating endlessly and stalling any changes unless of coarse it benefits them.
Our brains never stop thinking and the arguments that go on inside the brain are incredible. This is the very thing that makes quitting things like smoking so hard to do. The brain just keeps making "the decision" hard to do. How ironic.
7 billion, who can't make a decision, and counting

Just like school

So they got their man. The bomb suspect's have been captured or killed. But look at the disruption as a result of their actions. Sporting events cancelled, business's shut down, people locked in their homes. You remember when it only took a few to ruin it for the rest. And now all marathons are doubling security, to go to a hockey game you have to go sooner so they can scan you, man doing anything will be like getting on an airplane! Will we all say to hell with it and not bother? Will we become complacent and allow this to happen again? 

For me, I would have given up my season's tickets, I would avoid large public gatherings. Because when the freedom of attending these events gets taken away the fun is gone with it. How can you take a hockey or baseball game seriously when people are being killed indiscriminately. Living in North America has kept us isolated from these kind of things, but not anymore. 

Then there is the gun control thing, that is all I heard this weekend. Debate after debate with nothing to come of it. Is there just too many people on this planet? Are we becoming so cramped that to live freely is a thing of the past? And how on earth do these thugs remain in power? So many questions, so few answers. Or at least answers that we can ALL live with. Wake me up when the new age is upon us.

7 billion, wanting it their way, and counting.

Hey hey, my my

Last night I was doing my usual surfing on TV, you know, flip from a commercial to another program then back. So last night I had the CBC news going but on one of our movie channels Neil Young's solo performance at Massy Hall was on. "Hey hey, my my, rock and roll will never die", clic. And today at the Boston Garden the Bruins were playing their first game after the bombing, clic "theres more to the picture then meets the eye, clic, so the investigation is being pressured by 100 million amature CSI's. Many of which are disrupting the FBI's crack team, clic, "it's better to burn out, rust never sleeps, hey hey, my my" clic, Justin, the new Liberal party leader trying to be philosophical like his dad but failing miserably. However, he is putting fear in the Prime Minister as the attacks are in full force, clic, "Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies, I was lying in a burned out basement with the yellow haze of the sun, I was hopping for replacement", clic, coming next, the man who broke the story on all the tax evaders. Great I want to hear this one and clicked back for just a little more. "Come walk with me, come walk with me, talk to me, come walk with me", clic, and then the President of France says it's time to rid the world of tax havens, clic, " come walk with me, come walk with me.
This story is so big, so big that Wiki Leaks looks very small beside it. If all these tax havens could be closed imagine how much money would be available to the rest of us. Well I for one, am very happy that reporter from Australia had the guts to make sense of all the data he was given. It's time for these cheaters to be put on notice.
Hey hey, all 7 billion, my my, stopping corruption, rock and roll will never die!

Are we there yet?

The invention of the internet has to be one of the all time great things ever! Right up there with electricity, the internet has sped up our existence to where we are now. No big news there, except where we go from here.
It has been predicted that "all people" will be online by 2020. I agree with this and wonder if by that time we will have "got there" at last. I can't be the only one thinking this way, pretty much everything I see is becoming the same, there are less choices but they are far more efficient and inexpensive. Does everything become free? How does the free economy keep going? Hell we barely need government, certainly much less of it then what we have today. As Steve Jobs told us, "theres an app for that". Well there is an app for everything, road maintenance, welfare, immigration you can pretty much pick a department and an app can replace most of what those people do.
So to answer my question, "are we there yet", I would have to say, hmmmm, soon!
7 billion people, waiting for Captain Kirk to show up.

NO you're not, YES I am

As soon as you declare you "are something" there will be an avalanche of comments that you are not that something. It's like living in a police state where you get jailed for saying anything negative about the said police state. When I tell people that I'm vegan, the attacks begin. You are wearing leather, or you eat bread that has an egg in it. You get my point I think, but it seems to be a never ending barrage of attacks by those that do nothing to improve this world. In the end, no one is "anything" as that is pretty much impossible to achieve. 

Religion is a good example, are all Catholics really Catholics? If so why do so many priests abuse children? Are atheists really atheists? I suspect that they do believe in something spiritual, how can you not?

So I am going to invent a new "thing" to be, I will call it "Sustainable Rationalist". And the rules to be a S.R. are going to be whatever I decide "fits" at the time. Because that is pretty much what all these other organizations do is make the rules fit what you want them to be. For sure being a "Sustainable Rationalist" will give me lots of wiggle room to make compromises as I live my life.

7 billion, being rational, and counting. lol