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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. Al...