The Mission

Apathy Uber Alles...

I think the computer is great but it can reach a point of diminishing returns. When we start using the computer to talk to each other more than we use it as a tool for changing the status quo, we are not fully living up to the computer's full potential. Many of us tend to engage in preaching to the choir when it's those other guys whose minds we have to change.

More than ever, it seems that the path to enlightment means getting down and dirty and getting out there and talking it up among the people--all of those folks who depend on FOX and CNBC for all of the information that filters through their lives.

We must get them to awake to the common reality: If this cabal keeps it up, we may find ourselves at the tipping point unable to swing back. This is my worry. Fortunately, for the state of health of most Americans, they don't seem so concerned about these things. But that could be a two edged sword: It could be that they have so many other problems to work out that politics is remote to them; or it could be that they are zoned out of the political world by choice.

Either way, we have to get them to understand that if they don't take an interest in what is going on, the dregs of the barrel will continue to float to the top--we will still be led by people's whose interests do not extend beyond their own condition! This is the danger. And this should be the mission we devote ourselves to: Changing perceptions prior to the upcoming election! Can we do it? Ask yourself. it's the biggest question we face.

Les Aaron
the Armchair Curmudgeon