Gettin back to basics

Ya, know something, I am an asshole. A bastard or maybe even a mutha fucker. I sometimes go out of my way to get you to think so. I don't really care which nomenclaure you lable me with just so long as it disassociates me from the regular run of the mill hoi polloi (yes, I realize a redundancy has raised it's ugly head).

You see I gotta be different or at the very least least feel like I'm special. I even burned my membership card to Steve Martin's non-conformists union.
This might sound like the start of a diatribe upon the ills of socialism, communism or possibly embolism.

It's not.

It's an echo of what I have been seeing, reading and feeling from folks all around me.
I might just be more than a little presumptuous and it wouldn't be the first time that I opened my mouth wide enought to fit more than a pair of EEE Doc Martin's into the amazing maw of misinterpretation, but I believe that we are all trying so hard to keep our heads above water in very rough seas that we are missing a really important distinction in what is happening to the world economy and it's effect on our lives and the actual world that we live in.

I am inlined to make an analogy of Orson Well's famous, or rather infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast.
Some of us are running in panic when there really isn't anything to panic about. At the very least there isn't anything we can do about the issues that are causing the anxiety.

The aliens have landed and you've got to find a course of action to take. (I ain't talkin about immigration issues here.)
1.Put your head in the sand and let the world pass you by.
2.Continue to live like you have without consequense or responsibility and let others pick up the slack.
3.Get off your duff and make some changes in your attitude and actions that will make a difference to the world around you. Yes, I realize that this is open to a lot of interpretation, but that is exactly how I mean it to be. I want to open the Wall-Mart can of worms and let us all wrangle the idea of doing the right thing until we figure out all the different ways we can make the sand castle better. The tide will keep us on our toes and constantly at vigil, but that is , as I see it, a good thing.
4. fill in your own particular opinion.

I can see the obvious objections to my ideas: I am using a blog- That's kinda mainstream these days.
I live in Japan - Rich, Hi Tech and without financial worries since the Honda civic was born.
Education- The backbone of my business and livleyhood- is always steady in good times and bad.
I have been sneaking off and indulging in my wife's cold medicine so I am totaly high and about as coherent as spooky Mulder chasing his sister's abductors.


If you've made it this far I truly congratulate you. It must have been harder to read through that bull crap then it was for me to write it (not really). some of it must have been fairly interestin, yeah?

Get rid of all the sillines that people will try to sell you and make sure your govt. officials aren't full of self interest, read: shit. Then get busy making you little part of the world work well for you and your neighbors. No matter who they are.

Don't sweat the big stuff. The small things count.


Have a nice day!