Happy New Year. Hooray! Last year is over. The new year is upon us. Out with the negative. In with the positive. The stock market’s going to go up. My weight is going to go down. This is the year we turn it all around. Right?

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We are now hip deep into the Holiday Season.  All around us lopped off fir trees are piled in corner lots waiting to be brought into our homes and laden with electric bulbs and flammable decorations, television ads are full of happy smiling people opening boxes filled with ‘just what I’ve always wanted”, and radio stations are playing the same lame Xmas songs over and over and over and… What’s not to like?

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Within the past several weeks Americans have witnessed several news events created by unscrupulous people who will do just about anything for the sole purpose of becoming famous.  I won’t give these media hounds the publicity they seek by mentioning their names, but we can discuss their actions.

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In America the fourth Thursday of November is celebrated as a national holiday known as Thanksgiving.  It is the only holiday completely unique to this country and is rooted in our earliest history when European settlers, who had landed on our shores in 1620, gathered to give thanks for and feast on the fruits of their first year’s harvest.  The ritual has lasted for almost 400 years, though since then we seem to  have lost track as to what we are giving thanks for and whom we are thanking.

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From the time we wake up in the morning till we go to sleep at night, the media is constantly informing us about what’s going on in the world.   And whether we are tuned to the local TV station whose top story is about the latest mugging, robbery, rape, or killing on the streets of our cities or National Public Radio keeping us up to date on the number of innocent victims from the latest car bomb in Afghanistan, suicide bomber in Iraq, or typhoon in the Philippines, the news is almost always bad.   True, the common wisdom says that “Bad news sells newspapers”, but that’s precisely the issue.  Why should bad news grab our interest more than good, and what might that say about the nature of humanity?

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I read an interesting book this week entitled The Next Evolution: A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, by a visionary gentleman name of Jack Reed.  It’s premise is simple… our world is becoming polluted, our resources are disappearing, the vast majority of Earth’s people are starving, disease ridden, or worse, and even those who think they’ve got it made live boring lives of quiet desperation, fearful of losing what they’ve amassed.  And it’s all because we’re living in a dog eat dog society where everyone’s looking out for #1 and the rest of you be damned.  The book would be a real downer if that were all it said.

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