Brown Motion

LOL. SMH. ROFL. ETC. The western ideas of pursuing something intangible has been packaged and sold the world over.  Not unlike some religion trying to sell its ideology to gain access to virgins or whatever suits your lifestyle. The very idea of happiness and its pursuit came to a grinding halt with Covid. It seems within weeks the pursuer became the pursued. With the pandemic the stark statistics of where the bug spread shows lazier, poorer nations getting ahead of the curve or parabola or whatever shape we are calling it.  These guys knew they had a crappy healthcare apparatus and could never cope so they just told their junta to take an extended break - not alike what they are used to except now on steroids... HOLIDAY!  More tea please. Compare and contrast to the western or what are mostly thought of as advanced and richer nations - it showed their economies faltered.  Underlying thesis for that was pure hubris. A simple misplaced belief that we hav...

Vexing. Unlike Sell by Dates on egg cartons and milk, do we have a guideline for when something that is labeled new is not new anymore? You could buy a fancy purse from a fancy store for the price of a small sedan and wander off hoity toity.   Get oodles of ahh and likes from Insta and FB. And then at some point that new purse becomes old. When does this transition occur?  Is there a date like the equinox or the solstice? It is even more perturbing when it comes to man made stuff that is completely fanciful. Like Happy New Year. What?  That is so completely vague that I do not know where to begin.  It is one of the top all time meaningless comments in my book.  I am guilty of wishing people back when they do me.  All the times I do it I am very unsettled because I know not what it means. Saying things without knowing its meaning has become a norm in society. Does the year become old at some point?  In which case were your wishes a...