#AncientTexan

A lot of our problems in America are similar to problems China has.

Look up the Pareto principle.  It explains wealth inequality and why it is such a difficult problem to address without killing the golden goose. 

What do we do with the old homeless people that have covid?  Do we put them in with the old homeless people without covid?  

My daughter once fell, Fell from a slide ten feet high. I was standing below, Standing below watching, To catch her if she fell. Turned my head for a moment. She came crashing down, Chin bouncing on the rungs of the ladder, Head bouncing on the rubber mat below. I was standing below, watching, There to catch her if she fell. When I scooped her up, She looked up at me, Crying softly, eyes dripping...

To pay attention Ideal story Identify the essential and      pull it out from the rest Find the noble in yourself,      find the sacred in yourself Be disappointed when you do      not find and use your better self, the path to meaning in life Be vulnerable, find      connection, grow from those con...

U.S. Drug and Gun policies contribute significantly to the death of 50,000 Mexicans a year. We need to acknowledge our crimes against Mexico and develop new policies that recognize that we are our brother's keeper.

This question is only appropriate for those that have traveled life's journey a good ways and have asked a few more basic questions.

We have betrayed our friends and broken our word.

Vietnam was an example of where America was playing a finite game against an opponent that was playing an infinite game.  

Afghanistan, what we believed versus what was.  Virus and vaccines, what we believe and what is.   And other happening, what is versus what we chose to believe. 

We all use the same air on this planet.  Our dollars have the most impact if it is spent on the most serious problems independent of the country the problem is located in.  Put that in your political hat and smoke it. Again, humans need to pool their resources and pick the most effective ways and places to use their resources.   For example, we could lower the CO2 in our air mo...

We plan to spend $66 billion on Amtrak.  So, we will get new modern bullet trains?  Nope, we bring the trains back up to the standards of 1970.  Yea.  We will still have the worse train system in the civilized world.  How do we stop this disaster in the making?

Remake ... expanded, my impassioned version of podcast on June 21 2021 Does guilt play a role in correcting racism?   Should I feel guilty for what my ancestors did?  Do I owe anyone anything for what my ancestors did?  Reparations, do they make sense?  Who should get them if they do make sense?

Remember when we are taught that people would multiply until the earth's population soared above 9 billion followed by mass starvation.  What is this about population collapse?

Ashton, a being that altered my being.

My state of mind the night before an operation.

What is the truth?  Is it important?  Does it matter what the truth is?   If we believe lies does it doom America?

We are doing a lot of talking about addressing climate change, but how are we actually doing.  Which countries are actually making progress and how are they doing it?   Why can't we copy the successful countries?  Are the Democrats doing any better than the Republicans?

Do you understand the games that corporate America and congress is playing with our heads?

Does guilt play a role in correcting racism?   Should I feel guilty for what my ancestors did?  Do I owe anyone anything for what my ancestors did?  Reparations, do they make sense?  Who should get them if they do make sense?

I versus we.  Individualism.  Competition.  I, I, I.  My tribe.  My state.  My country.  Me, me, me.  Where is all that leading us?

Ms. Scot (Jeff Bezos ex) has it tough, or she has some tough problems getting rid of her billions.  What do you do when you keep making more money than you can give away.  What the hell do you do?

Two lithium mine projects are being held up in Nevada; one for a sage grouse, the other for a buckwheat flower.   Should the rest of the world take care of the United States industrial needs for lithium and electric vehicles?  And what about the jobs lost?

Guess how many countries we are helping to bomb?  Does that matter to you?

A poem by Stephen Dobyns about depravity.  Apparently, this is a subject we know little about.