End of the Calendar Prophecy

I hope and pray that everyone is preparing themselves for the end of the calendar as we know it.  Anyone know where I can buy a new Maya Calendar since my old one ends tomorrow?  Anyway, here's wishing everyone a Happy New Calendar.

Choosing The Lesser Of Two Evils

Merely postpones the inevitable.

Sign Of The Times

Walk/Don’t Walk signs can be very helpful when crossing a street. Like stop lights for automobiles they help control the flow of traffic. Without them it would be close to impossible to get across a busy intersection. They are really convenient when intersections have turn arrows for automobiles. Even should cross traffic be at a stop nothing can ruin a day like being hit by a car turning into the path we’re walking.

But are they absolutely necessary? 

I’m talking about when the walk path is clear, no cars are coming –or are a significant distance away to not cause injury or death- and the sign indicates “Don’t Walk”. Should we stay or should we go? Should we cross the street because we can or should we stay put because the sign says so? Do we put all our faith and trust in a machine to tell us when to walk safely or should we use our own intellectual abilities to reason as to when it is safe to walk? When the sign says emphatically “Don’t Walk” although our intellect tells us it is safe to do so, do we obey the sign or our own confidence in accomplishing the task before us, that being crossing the street safely?

I do not raise these questions idly. I have too often seen people standing at a street corner with no oncoming traffic and not attempting to cross for no other reason than that a little square box with a red phrase told them not to walk. These people put more faith in that mechanical sign than in their own common sense. They obey a machine that tells them not to do something they clearly could do instead of obeying themselves.

What does this say about humanity when they more readily obey a machine, while helpful is not the final say on our behavior, instead of our own common sense? What does this say about people who defer solely to a machine instead of themselves when they could clearly make a decision to take the initiative and override the machine’s instructions?

Are we getting too good at following orders? Are we becoming so good at being told what to do that we cannot cross a street confidently without first getting an other’s permission? In this case a machine’s permission? What does it say about us if we cannot act of our own volition but must wait for permission to do something we are clearly capable of doing all by ourselves? 

If we cannot cross the street safely without first getting someone or something else’s permission what more does that say about our individual abilities? Can we trust the people to critically think? Take the initiative? Problem solve? Take responsibility? Question Authority?

One can tell a lot about a person just by the way they cross a street. And what it tells us isn’t good.

And election day is coming up.

Our Other Selves

Others are blamed for everything.

If only they would…

If only they wouldn’t…

If only they did…

If only they didn’t...

To others we are the other.

Worth or Value at a Price

If money grew on trees
Eventually there'd be
No more public property

Self Distraction

People who can't stand to be alone

Can't stand to be with themselves

Materialism

When the going gets tough

The tough go shopping

Prophet And Loss

What does it profit a man

To try to gain the world and fail

And lose his soul

Wants Wanting

Socialism:  We want what's ours


Communism:  We want what's yours


Capitalism:  We want what's ours and yours


Americanism:  I want what's mine and what's not mine and what's
                          left over

No Shoes, No Shirt...

My kind of woman.

Leadership

I, as of this writing, have a follower to my blog.  That makes me a leader.  I am a leader.  I take my responsibilities as leader seriously and will not let my follower down.

My first act as leader will be to dole out (Bob Dole was a leader) gingerbread houses to all the homeless.  This will also solve the hunger problem in my blogdom.  You see, a leader is always thinking.

Many have asked me (actually, nobody) that since I have solved the homeless and hunger problems what will I do about the naked problem amongst my soon to be multitude of followers.  Yes.  I agree.  There is not enough nakedness in my blogdom.  I will most certainly rectify this problem once I solve more pressing matters that need to be ironed out.

Why is the sky blue?  Hey! Who put peanut butter in my chocolate!?  Who put chocolate in my peanut butter!?

Thank you for following my leadership.

Greatness Declared

A great nation does not deserve great art.

A great nation produces great art.

If a great nation does not produce great art

It does not deserve great art.

Nor is it a great nation.

The above is based on a public radio announcement I repeatedly hear. I found it odd that a great nation (meaning us) were not to create great art because we are great but rather we are entitled to great art because we are great. If we are great our art should be a sign of it. If we don’t have great art that should say something about our greatness. And the fact that we feel entitled to something we aren’t doing says even more.

And who decides what is great art? Maybe we have it and the people running the ad aren’t great enough to see it. If we are a great nation there should be great art out there already and these people need to come down from their ivory tower and find it instead of telling us we are entitled to what we don’t have when we in fact already have it. Or admit we don’t have it and then rethink what it means to be a great nation and whether or not we are one.