Pre Adult

On a recent radio program on NRP a woman author described what she considers a common condition in our society, people in a pre adult status. The individuals used to be called young adults but game has changed. I guess in earlier times the YAs were people in transition to adulthood, pre adults are people who do not want to move on to adult status. Why do it anyway? It will probably compromise you even further than when you were stuck in some kind of young adult transition situation (?).

The author cited a book which has been on the New York Times best list for books for weeks and weeks, "I hope they serve beer in Heaven," I think that is the title. & thus other parallel attitudes and conditions might be called up to describe a situation where you would rather dwell in a middling pre adult situation rather than making choices otherwise. As I mentioned earlier, elsewhere, in response to my question about involvement on vicarious sports on television one of my sons described the event (Superbowl?) as a national holiday. Why not drink your ever loving brew during a national sports holiday, what else to do? Wine, come on.

How do you grow up in a world as confused and compromised as this one. Why not ride it out with a twelve pack or better a keg? We are encouraged to indulge in pastimes which are bathed in violence and self forgetfulness, and the advertisements tell us all that it will all go better with a libation of some kind. Kick back, brothers and sisters, this too shall pass.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't 3/28, 6:30 pm.

Instead of listening to President Obama's descriptions of the situation in Libya I am going to take the questionable elder's semi- right to "say the obvious." Mr. Obama's speech at the Novel Prize ceremony has already set the stage for what he has said earlier and will say again this evening. War is hell, contradictory and full of devastating compromises, including the death of so many women and children and elderly who do not make the news. As a "centralist" our Commander-in-Chief has to drive what to most people will not be an equatable position.

Following in on eight years of Bush and a foreign policy based upon questionable foreign adventures during and since the so-called Spanish American War, the "empire strikes back," lots of money and blood is spent, and we hope to shift part of the guilt & battle ribbons to NATO and our other partners abroad. And what if our President had not done what he did, what would the hawks and their many accomplices have said and done? Would they have dwelled on the probable victims in their denunciations of a soft foreign policy?

I have at times felt "sorry" for President Obama, it seems that he has inherited even more contradictions and problems than George Bush did. But his record is not good so far in dealing with the hands he has been dealt, including the advisers he has chosen to make his way through to another term. Our former Vice President, Dick Cheney, said in a moment of his usual "candor" that Mr. Obama will be a one term president. "Damned it you do, damned if you don't." War is Peace.