Comrades:By ducking out of branding China a currency "manipulator", the US Treasury has shown yet again that America is a paper tiger. It has not even accused us of "misalignment". Not that that would mean much - just more of the interminable talks we have held with Washington for years.

 

Can it be known: Will our future be bright or dim?

I am thinking in terms of one human species. Will we manage prosperity for posterity or, on the other hand, will we ensure mutual destruction.

Now this may seem a bit pre-mature to take such an extreme possition however; one might at least flip a coin on the off chance that the expected outcome may somehow inspire some effort to push the odds in favor of the common sense outcome.

Can we pause just a moment for some entertainment?

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times.html

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

These words don't stick for some reason:

If your time to you
Is worth savin'


Try it yourself. Time will change. And soon enough you may ask yourself if your time to you is worth saving. When that time comes, then, see if you can remember the words. A baby boomer like me may have that melody, 'the tune', playing somewhere in their bio-Ipod, if not, then, and if one is willing to take this little test, do find the song and play it a few times. The tune is somewhat attractive.  It can stick.

As time goes on, then, sing along some, the test is: see if the words come to mind - see if you can impart meaning into the words: "If your time to you is worth savin'". I failed, at first, and will fail again, and again, like a broken record as if my mind were pre-programmed to think otherwise; as if my time, to me, is worth nothing.

Enough entertainment?

The topic is framed in such a way as to propose something specific and in this manner the current effort is to apply critical thought toward a specific desired end; an end, I might add, that remains out of reach for me - like a light at the end of a tunnel always and forever distant.

So, now, looking at the information linked above; one might conclude that the light is no longer as far away and, further, that the light may actually be approaching, measurably, in a manner that could be described with words like: accelerating velocity.

Does this scenario appear in a manner similar to a person on the tracks, in the tunnel, or an audience, in a theater, watching a movie of a person, on the tracks, in a tunnel, as the light grows larger, turning, perceptibly becoming a very, very fast moving train?

If not, then, what are these current events telling?

Is it an untold story, in progress, and: to be continued?

I've proposed the extreme ends and can add to that scope:

Are we on the verge of "Utopia", a second coming, and judgment day? Is that the light? Is that true?

Perhaps not

Can one imagine into being a scenario whereby a prophecy is fulfilled for the end of time itself?

Scope, light, truth, and marking the vast frontier of possibility is, perhaps, mere entertainment for the speculators who invest in futures, while, the wise ones prefer to simply observe and react as needed.

Where is, then, the common denominator, the happy medium, the sensible, conservative, even scientific, and accurate method enabling reason to win the day? What is the practical perspective?

All the above is trite, superfluous, and of no value whatsoever. Words are nothing. The practical thing to do is to act. Find the practical thing.

What is that middle?

Suppose that it is found. I mean: suppose that one does understand the need to find the middle. Call it right, accurate, precise, true, practical, real, free from error; call it whatever but suppose, for a minute, that one does find it; the need for IT.

What happens next?

Might it be a good idea to give this THING a word? One might wish to say SOMETHING to the closest person.

I’m going to throw out a few possibilities:

Liberty

Equity

Justice

We, the people, can argue until the end of time, as to, the more accurate term to describe IT; this finding of IT. That would be finding the word, then, and not finding IT.

Meanwhile the world is changing.

I’m just entertaining myself, looking in the mirror at my imaginary reader, and winking.

Equity is between Liberty and Justice. One might look it up.


I forgot a few items:

Look up

Look down

Look up

Look down

Is that resembling reproduction in a perverse kind of way?

I look at the mirror. My reflection is winking back with an almost imperceptible expression whispering: Equity.

On topic:



Those are military tanks. That is an individual standing in front of those military tanks. Is IT real?

That item can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

And on the other side:



That is something. It is found here:

http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/page/w_catalo.html

Just in case one is confused as to what that last picture above is:





Just in case someone is confused as to why I posted the above items for comparison, if one has an interest that is:

When push comes to shove, like the USA pushing China, for example, then, one is bound to resolve the issue in one manner or another. One might want to get and idea as to which one fires first and, perhaps more importantly, why one fires first. That item, the getting of it, may help one judge for oneself, as to, the meaning of the term justice. More importantly one might learn how to avoid that whole mess.

One might listen when another one offers a peaceful solution especially if the offer is equitable.

http://forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7230

Discovery is a process:

Comrades, we must allow the renminbi to rise
By Guy de Jonquieres
Published: May 16 2006 03:00 | Last updated: May 16 2006 03:00

This address to the Chinese Communist party central committee by Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the central bank, has come into the Financial Times's hands.

Comrades:By ducking out of branding China a currency "manipulator", the US Treasury has shown yet again that America is a paper tiger. It has not even accused us of "misalignment". Not that that would mean much - just more of the interminable talks we have held with Washington for years.


 

Can it be known: Will our future be bright or dim?

Meeting in the middle may be a good idea.

My reflection looks back thinking: "You will always be Stupid: thank God".

 


 

 

Last edited on Wed May 17th, 2006 01:00 pm by Joe Kelley