We Are All Jews

I bet that every person on the earth today has somewhere a Jewish ancestor.
Jews have been around a long time.
Maybe 4000 years
and they have always liked to travel
And they have interbred with the locals
so now I believe just about everyone has a Jewish ancestor

and anyway
we are all related
we are all cousins
we are all human

and we originated most likely in Africa
so we are all Africans

The Sound Of Silence

Here is a song we all know
I just watched Paul Simon perform this song at the 10 year memorial for 9/11.
Was it appropriate?

What does the song mean?
It seems to mean different things to different people.

Maybe that is good. Maybe it just holds up a mirror to help you see yourself in the dark.

Is it about how people don't communicate?
Is it about idolatry? "THE NEON GOD"
Is it ZEN? What is the sound of silence?

Is it about prophecy itself, and the ambiguity of prophecy?

"VISION PLANTED IN MY BRAIN"

I was not sure it fit with the memorial. The event is so specific. A lot of people died all at once and left children and spouses and friends bereft. And that is a terrible and sad thing and impossible to understand. So a song that cannot be understood may be appropriate.

But I am left with a doubt about the whole thing.
Not to denigrate anyone...but we are all bereft, we have all had losses, and we will all lose everything in the end. So why this special attention for these folks?

I also now am thinking of some recent natural disasters like the tsunami in Japan and the tsunami of 2004 in the Indian Ocean. The latter killed more than 200,000 people.

So, what I hear is an egotism. I hear a cry that my problem is important. I hear a lot of ME! ME! ME!
And that is all and each. We are all doing that for our own situation. We are all praying for help and salvation and to get what we want.

In conclusion, I wrote a lyric recently. It is a work in progress, it talks about these issues of hope and faith and truth.

Take time
for imagination
what you wanted is here
now look
just open up your eyes
the truth
shining like a star
the light
shining around you
so much brighter than the light
you
imagined

hope was
something to hold
onto
let it go let it go
and faith
you got down on your knees
to pray
now your prayer is answered
so
what was the question?
does it matter when you find
truth
delightful?

More Mister Bix

never give up

keep on
keepin' on

let go and fly

Real Causes of Unemployment

"...excessive union wage-rates, minimum wage laws, excessive and prolonged unemployment insurance, and overgenerous relief payments."
Henry Hazlitt, "ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON"

So the government is the cause of the unemployment.
It is all about supply and demand and substitution.
If you really desire a job, you will take the wage that the market offers and you will be employed and have an opportunity to improve your status.
Or you can hold out for the better job and remain unemployed.
It is a choice.

And government policies lean in the direction of helping people who choose not to work.
Government interference is the real cause of unemployment.

Did Libya Adventure Sink The Economy?

Things are looking bad for the world economy.
How close are we to a new recession?

When NATO decided to get involved in the Libya Civil War,did they consider the economic consequences?
The price of oil shot up, putting a damper on the economy and possibly tipping us back into recession.

And this time it could be even uglier.
And the same old group is selling short and dumping stock and hurting confidence.

I believe we don't need to go into recession, but the main issue is confidence, and that is being destroyed now by the political rhetoric we are being subjected to.

Time to wake up
time to realize we have more than we need
we don't need to be greedy or to panic
we need to be peace

Rebebalize

To rebebalize
to thoroughly work over the food on your plate, taking it apart in order to examine it minutely, taking out any bad parts and then reorganizing it in little mounds on your plate before finally eating it.

Local Parasite

In my neighborhood we all put our recyclables in special blue containers
to be picked up by the trash authorities
However,
some people make a business of looting these containers and selling what they collect
You might think this is harmless
or enterprise
or self help
BUT
it is actually stealing, and does not help the community
All the stuff they take would have been picked up and recycled by the city and the profit would go to the community, not to this parasite
and the thing that bothered me this morning was the strong smell of exhaust
This guy has an old minivan that he loads up. It needs work. It needs repair. It is producing a lot of pollution! Very bad exhaust.
So this guy is an antisocial parasite.
He should not be doing this. It is harming not helping. It helps him....
And who is he?
If I had to guess, I would say he is an illegal immigrant.
But maybe he is just a local trying to get by.
I wish he would get a real job. Or go back where he came from.