Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: ... Read more ...
Wow...So it seems that I was right about some thing when it come to the economy and the Bush administration...
everyone can put the blame on the bush administration and bush himself for the outcome of the unstimulated economy...but the only people to blame for these problems that we are facing with the economy is the four large private financial institutions that are lending credit and mortgage to millions of people that cannot pay the companies back...the banks, and the citizens.
so what does the government do?
certainly not let the four banks fall and bring the US to a third world country and obliterate a world wide market that would create a depression far worse than the Great Depression...
no, they save the fucking financial institutions by buying all the faulty mortgages from them...then they tack on a bill that would be paid in full by the tax payers.
it's a difficult choice, but it's a lot better than the alternative.
but this still means that taxes are going to ... Read more ...
People talk about Burning Man as pivotol period in their life as parallel to an inner revolution. People that are set out in an environment to which they can let go of their inhibitions and truly be their whacky selves tend to feel more secure than ever before in a society based on so many social boundaries. roll back the social clock to a time when trade and social coagulation is predominant, then throw out the stringent stilts called collective modernism and you have a group of individuals who show that differences can and will come together and survive in the harshest conditions and somehow end up extremely content and happy with one another.
As I walked at night (with a lovely woman I just met) through the vast stretch of desert playa, I had an epitomy that came down like an artillery shell: Life is very easy, as well as is success. Any which form of success and those who are successful know that living comes from the expression that you illuminate your very own masterpiece from your personality ... Read more ...
The horizon is an imagionary line that recedes as you approach it.
Just when I begin to believe that I have reached that horizon, there it is again, far ahead of me, promising new wonders to be discovered.
Adventure
My favorite thing is to go where I have never been. -Diane Arbus
Experience
The world is a great book of which they, who never stir from home, read only a page. -Augustine
Travel
Some expierences just dont translate. You have to go to know. -Kobi Yamada
Quest
Before me lies the edge of the world. I am on my way there running. -from a Papago Song
Depart
I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took me a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me. -Richard Bach
Wonder
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. -Carl Gustav Jung
Seek
An origonal life is unexplored territory. You dont get there by taki ... Read more ...
