The Scotto Grotto (org)

Ugh… wakefulness came slowly to me this morning. Nitrogen? Blood Sugar? Low Batteries? Who can say? A nice morning today… cool, a little wind, some soft rain falling down again…the wind chimes are gonging rather rapidly outside, and my windows are still open. As a result, it’s sort of damp in here, but it’s pleasant. I went on my walk, but didn’t take a book or my palm, due to the precipitation. I’m just about through the Bucky Fuller book, and I’m convinced that this guy is one of the niftiest minds of our century that I’ve had the pleasure to read… he’s a very positive person, and offers some viable suggestions of how human dynamics and groups of people can work together. I highly recommend reviewing ‘the game of life’…it shows a lot of ideas on how working together is much more beneficial than working apart.

My sweetie has been reading a great deal about China, the time of Mao, especially. It’s been bringing my feelings about the situation over there to the forefront. (I have a love/hate relationship with a great deal of Asian culture.) I admire the people, but despise the Chinese government, from Imperial to Communist. Confucianism (heck, or Communism) is an interesting concept for ants or a group on paper, but where human rights are concerned (or in the case of Communism, human failings like greed or corruption), that sort of society simply cannot work.

Something I used to be paranoid about as a young teen was that Russia or Red China was really a paradise…the United States propaganda machine was feeding us with stories of bread lines, secret police and labor camps in order to make us more complacent in the (then…about 1982?) time of high unemployment and general upset with Ron Reagan. I’ve long since changed my tune, especially after spending time with my relatives from Germany. I’ve seen the Berlin wall, and talked to folks that lived on the East side before the wall came down. (It still amazes me how many folks today don’t know how significant that is… can it really be 15 years already?)

Well, that sort of rambled… I intended to burp this out as a pre-shower quickie.