Post by maestro on Jun 19, 2009 9:55:26 GMT -5
So on the way to work this morning I was listening to Jack Johnson and I started thinking about some of the qualities of today's world. Perhaps it was Mr. Johnson's music which seems to make me contemplative or perhaps it was the caffeinated coffee that I drank on the way to work (we ran out of decaf and as a former caffeine junky I try to avoid the leaded stuff).
So anyhow I was thinking about an interesting dichotomy that I see in our present environment. I may be the only one who finds it interesting, but whatever, free speech and a slow day at work combined forces to inspire me to type.
As I sat in my Japanese car listening to radio beamed down from a satellite with a phone in my pocket that allows me to talk to my wife from the basement garage at work as she eats lunch in California I started to think about how interconnected our planet has become. As I type this babble to folks who I have never met who are spread all over this great country of ours I look up and see the "Supreme Leader" of Iran on the TV screen and my feelings of oneness with the entire planet are hardened.
You get my point hopefully. The world is shrinking in many regards. We have incredible abilities to use techonology to connect with people and places all over the planet and even the universe.
However, as we become more interconnected via technology to people and places far and wide we need to become less dependent on those people and places for many reasons (in my humble opinion). In these volitale times with security concerns, economic upheaval, and a changing climate we really need to turn our backs on interconnectness in some regards.
We should support local farmers to curb fuel costs of transporting foods, to allow us to eat fresher/less processed foods, to hopefully encourage a decrease in the amount of chemicals used on our foods. This speaks to our health and our goal of energy independence. So you can't eat bananas all year round. You will live. Less interconnected.
We should support or local banks and businesses. As we discover how impossible it is to oversee or manage our mega-corporations like AIG, BOA etc. we should support our local banks who are actually..............well banks. Not insurance companies/hedge funds/banks/ball park sponsors who even the CEO's have no clue how to manage. Less interconnected.
As we hope to secure our borders from terrorism and the influence of OPEC we should support technology that will allow us to become energy independent. One day our homes will be individual power plants where we plug in our cars and give energy back to the grid. Less interconnected.
What a crazy world.
So anyhow I was thinking about an interesting dichotomy that I see in our present environment. I may be the only one who finds it interesting, but whatever, free speech and a slow day at work combined forces to inspire me to type.
As I sat in my Japanese car listening to radio beamed down from a satellite with a phone in my pocket that allows me to talk to my wife from the basement garage at work as she eats lunch in California I started to think about how interconnected our planet has become. As I type this babble to folks who I have never met who are spread all over this great country of ours I look up and see the "Supreme Leader" of Iran on the TV screen and my feelings of oneness with the entire planet are hardened.
You get my point hopefully. The world is shrinking in many regards. We have incredible abilities to use techonology to connect with people and places all over the planet and even the universe.
However, as we become more interconnected via technology to people and places far and wide we need to become less dependent on those people and places for many reasons (in my humble opinion). In these volitale times with security concerns, economic upheaval, and a changing climate we really need to turn our backs on interconnectness in some regards.
We should support local farmers to curb fuel costs of transporting foods, to allow us to eat fresher/less processed foods, to hopefully encourage a decrease in the amount of chemicals used on our foods. This speaks to our health and our goal of energy independence. So you can't eat bananas all year round. You will live. Less interconnected.
We should support or local banks and businesses. As we discover how impossible it is to oversee or manage our mega-corporations like AIG, BOA etc. we should support our local banks who are actually..............well banks. Not insurance companies/hedge funds/banks/ball park sponsors who even the CEO's have no clue how to manage. Less interconnected.
As we hope to secure our borders from terrorism and the influence of OPEC we should support technology that will allow us to become energy independent. One day our homes will be individual power plants where we plug in our cars and give energy back to the grid. Less interconnected.
What a crazy world.