LET'S JUST SAY: "UNSTEADY". I try to avoid thinking about the subject - time-to-time but when I do avoid it, along comes another news item which,in effect,upsets my entire fruit stand and not just my apple cart. The point I ponder at such a moment has to do with estimates of the relative stability - in its grandest sense - of each of us as a nation of people or peoples.
Is it a "possibility" or even, perhaps, a "probability" that either both the rulers and the ruled segments of the so-called "nations" of the Earth - the governors, kings, queens, dictators,residents, prime people of some place - might, perchance, have slipped or slithered over the edge at some zig or zag opportunity along the rather sketchy pathways of man's true history.
Only yesterday,on the very day we here in The United States have nose-count of 300-million in inhabitants, we were also told that The World's Primary Nut Nominee for Now Kim II, of North Korea has decide to do an encore performance of his low-level nuke test of last week's headlines and footnotes. No one know his reasons for doing so, but this is another of Kim II's re-takes for his well-known film collection.
This number business about 300-million of us is another question "well." What man or women in their right mind, would even consider being named to hold the office which would put them in charge of governing such a mass of people of people, guiding them to fruitful careers in jobs they all cherish, of meeting every need for soul-satisfy attainments in the arts, technology, music in rock, rap and on-line recordings thereof. Just keeping up with the numbers might be a problem. If you keep careful record of birth rates, death rates and immigration rates or will find we get anew citizen every eleven minutes or so. If you are running for the presidential place, remember these newcomers will not be voting for another eighteen year or so. Be sure to work small details like that into your plans...and "Good Luck" to you.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 10-19-06 [c372wds]
