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Toward an effort to understand one aspect of discontent most of us experience I will utilize a oversimplified categorization process. As perhaps too often done I will group humans into two distinct groups. Those who own money and those who money owns. Almost everyone the average person comes to know either in their personal lives or throught the media falls into the group that is owned by money. This includes Oprah, Bill Gates, atheletes, movie stars all celebrities. Regardless of what the medi… Continue

Watching Charlie Rose last evening I was pleasantly engaged while listening to Barbara Ehrenreich- author, essayist and columist. She reminds us of the ill effects this culture holds for positive thinking; the kind peddled by motivational speakers one many times finds in corporate america. Her ideas and comments on this topic are akin to my own considerations. The push to deny certain realities many times promulgated by our economic and class system, is the cause for much harm to people. Many… Continue

About the emerging dichotomy in the Rebulican party between those who wish to connect to and those who wish to be dis-connected from the so- called tea parties, town hall meetings and the paltry amount of people who protested at the Washington mall last weekend. It is many times purported that the average American citizen is moderate in relation to issues and does not fall into the extreme catergories of the left or right. However if one observed the protest against healthcare reform in Washing… Continue

I am back and will write much more once I re- work my computer- I have much to say- and will say it. I am currently having difficulty with my computer and attempting to iron out the problems. I hope the most "powerful" man in the world goes in front of the tide and demands it to wait. Good luck as it waits for no man- all of us alienated- abstract- removed -dis-intergraded- beings think we have it made- well we better take our diamond rings and pawn them- we better wear diamonds on the soles o… Continue