Priorities

AS HURRICANE ISAAC  comes busting through the gulf of mexico on its way to new orleans and the gulf coast, a couple of quick points. The hurricanes and tornados are going to keep coming, most likely, and in the future thousands of houses, cars, cities, and people will be damaged or destroyed. Particluraly since there are billions of people now, with billions of houses.

We all like our high standard of living, our cities, levies, dams and dykes. All over the world, in every country, people are striving to get these things, to raise their living standard, to produce and maintain more material wealth (houses, cars, etc, see above).

Shocking few humans, nations, or cultures seem to be renouncing materialism, in favor of voluntary poverty and the contemplative, simple life, living in caves.  And so be it. All well and good.

But there is a price, and a high one, to be paid for all this. Namely, it all has to be repaired, replaced, and/or maintainted, constantly. (remember the hurricane)

This is gonna require a lot of work, effort, resources. By the time we get through reparing all the roads and bridges, growing all the food, and rebuilding all the blown away houses, do we really want to go to the trouble of building dozens of F22 fighter jets and trillion dollar aircraft carriers?Can we really afford to?  Fair question.

What we seem to be doing now, as a nation, (the U.S.A.), as well as globally, is, building the fighter jets and aircraft carriers first, then, getting around to the roads and houses and food, and, for a fact, taking our sweet time about it. We are so fearful, we think so much with our brain stem rather than our cerebral cortex, that we sucrry to defend ourselves first and foremost, thinking we can find something to eat when we feel more secure.

Meanwhile, we don't have enough to eat, or enough cars, or houses.

If we the people of the planet earth could work up enough courage to feel well defended, we could slow down a bit on the jets and bombs, and focus a bit more on rebuilding cities whipped by wind.

Bb

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