Regardless
of who we are, we all see things in black and white, good or bad, right or
wrong based on our own experiences and background; when actually everything in
this world – every belief and action exist in some shade of grey.
The Chinese symbol of Yin and Yang shows white
and black in equal proportions, but each side should exist in different
proportions according to the issue.
We all are
guilty of fallacious thinking, that everything we reason, everything we believe
is factual and everything opposing our view is false. A twenty-year-old can tell you in one
sentence how to solve all the world’s problems and strife; but, as we age the
grey seeps in.
Like
Jurassic Park there are always two scenarios.
Saddam
Hussein is a bad guy; lets remove the bad guy and all will be better - equals
simplistic thinking.
As a liberal
I am against war. I would like to
downsize our military and drastically cut our military budget, transferring our
spending to social programs. Great
idea, but…. About one third of our
manufacturing base depends directly on military contracts and millions of people's
jobs depend on companies depending on military contracts.
Yin and Yang
in different proportions.
Even daylight and dark vary according to the seasons.
Health care
and pharmaceutical companies are leaches that will eventually suck everyone’s
blood. They are companies for profit
not for health. I would like to see Medicare for all and government control
of pharmaceutical products. But this
would mean the end of health insurance companies and the socialization of
pharmaceuticals. Again, Yin and Yang
in different proportions: millions of people would lose their jobs and
their retirements. The eventual outcome might be better, but it would be
disastrous in the short term. Billions
of dollars of profits curtailed – I am not sure it can ever be done.
I have life
insurance, most people do: what happens to the security of our love ones when
insurance companies go under – like the environment everything in the economy
exist in a web, you destroy one link of the web and the whole web can be
effected.
Where am I
going with this: the Ol’Buzzard is riding the updrafts and passing the time
with contemplation while waiting to discover the next piece of carrion… oops, a dead skunk on the road – let me take
a look.
Yum yum
the Ol’Buzzard
