Take Note Of The Obvious

It is not just the pretentious and awesome appearing novelties that we, as a budding society of individuators, should take note of. The cumulative addition of obvious transformations are without notice revolutionizing our way of life.

The news outlets this weekend pointed out--The New York Times--89 billion dollars of Christmas shopping on line has forced the big box stores to adjust rapidly--and not always sure-footedly--to the reduction of store walk-in traffic to do holiday shopping. As people physically mix less in public places, they must be aware of their need to get out of their homes to walk, shop, work, ride bikes in a forest, hunt, etc. To fail to physically get out of one's electronic and cyberworld fantasy world in one's day is to become psychically and morally sick, trapped in a narcissistic and solipsistic rut of no outlets.

To physically get outside, meet other people, walk the dog, trim a tree, drive to Fargo--all these activities force one out into objective reality, and that  is critical to the maintenance of human health on many levels.

As I waited by the MSP airport in a shuttle this weekend for an airline crew to land, I watched a bank of jets coming in for landing. This air travel is over 100 years old, but it is still a marvel for me to watch a jet land or take off.

Freedom of movement is a blessing for a free people. As individuators move across the globe, the values of Mavellonialism can quickly visit all corners of the earth. I would rather have that occur, than send Ebola to Stockholm.

To drive around in cars is so mundane now, but this transportation innovation has done so much to liberate people, Walk and ride your bikes, but do not yet the socialists and the command-and-control metropolitan councils take away our wondrous cars.

AS viruses like Ebola mutate rapidly in the natural world, so now as rapidly will human technology and culture expand and mutate in the human, unnatural realm. That unnatural, foreign world of change is a blessing if we keep our cool, and do not panic or join ISIS.