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No Direction

These days with GPS as ubiquitous as apple pie (at least for those in the heatland) it is hard to really lose sense of direction - actually its hard to lose oneself direction notwithstanding.

For those millenials more importance is attached to One Direction than any other directions whether on behavior modification or actual arrival instructions.

Now this directionless banter aside, I got to thinking if there was some significance to the erstwhile notion of describing certain cultures from the Orient vs. the Occident.  If I am Oriented a certain way does it make me less Western?  What if I was in the Orient and wanted to describe the natives - would we then be the Accidental Occidents?  Who decides what the Orient really is? 

Same goes for Midwest and Mideast and all points in between - frankly there is no point to this and its best to enjoy the journey than worry about qualifications based on someone's random idea of disorienting the readership.

Also for events occuring daily it has gotten out of hand with people wanting to know the direction in which things are headed?  Is crime down or up?  Is the GDP headed north or south?  Are marriages headed for the toilet or is there yet an uplifting message that can save them?

Statisticians and analysts make a killing by convincing the clueless denizens both ways thereby leaving them more puzzled than a Rubic cube unfinished.

All you need is 3 down then 2 rights anticlockwise and 5 up and you are done!
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