Scattered - Conclusion

Let's not jettison the U.S. Postal Service.  It is not too much of a stretch to imagine the corporate take over of our invaluable Postal Service and then outsourcing it in order to squeeze the profit out.  Who is confused here?  Go, go Wall Street Protests.  Next month is Preparedness Month (?),  "Be Prepared" the quaint Boy Scout slogan I grew up with.  What is  u r g e n t enough to be prepared for in these times? Poverty, starvation, thirst,  homelessness?  Hey,  let the good times roll.  James Howard Kuntsler (of "The Long Emergency") may have something to say about this in his new book "Too Much Magic."

Discontinuity precludes conversation and personal memory (about other people's needs?),  "May the Circle Be Unbroken, in the Sky, Lord, in the Sky..."  It may be only in the stratosphere that continuity is possible,  where the circle can be unbroken.  We have created a society of dependence,  now especially in the corporate realm,  where it is soundly blessed by think tanks,  media, our government  and the ever lovin'  Tea Party.  Balanced budget?  I don't know if that is ever to be possible again, "entitlements"  are just too strong,  pervasive.

Frequent fliers are another version of our problem,  people with immense mobility desires, regardless of fuel problems,  security issues,  etc.  Personal indulgence was one of the backdrops of Thorstin Veblen's landmark work, "Theory of the Leisure Class."  It may be that this work needs to be revisited and updated to include indulgences of contemporary waste and personal prerogative.  Think of frequent fliers as those whose lives consist of unending indulgence in waste and personal forgetfulness, airplanes or no airplanes.