Random Thoughts

Writing can be a chore. Finding new and interesting subjects is probably easier for professional wordsmiths. My own abilities feel hampered by what is euphemistically called "fibro fog." I feel my mind is not always working at full capacity. My posts may become more sporadic as I try to give myself a break. In the meantime here are a few musings for my readers to chew on.

There is a book review in a magazine I subscribe to that talks about cheating in baseball. Playing any sport where the stakes are so high, as in monetary gain, and cheating becomes commonplace. The author argues that it is an integral part of the game. Just how many must skirt the rules before it no longer matters? It matters not whether it is one or a million. You can dress it up any way you like but any argument on the pro side just comes off as a halfhearted rationalization. We define cheating as wrong so it hardly matters how many do it. A culture may exist that espouses freely murdering its members. No matter that all accept this reality it is still murder no matter how you look at it.

There has been quite a debate as we round the corner of national health care. One side cares for people and little for corporate profits. The other ignores the sick and dying and works only to please their moneyed monolithic masters. (Try saying that three times fast!) It is not true but what other impression would one get while watching the news? I just cannot stand the pejoratives. Every one is either FAR left or RADICAL right. What happened to just left, right, or heaven forbid, centrist thinkers? All I see are "catchy" one-liners written on signs being waved at news cameras. I fear that true perspective is truly dead.

Judges are there to interpret laws or so we are taught. Assuming this is so how do we define what a law is? In every form and in every way people break the rules. Most assume they will get away with it and usually do. Lawyers either twist the law to punish or obfuscate it to relieve. Our laws have been recorded for all to see yet for what purpose? They seem like mere suggestions of what may be true depending upon who, what, when, where, which and how. Our laws are like various hobby price guides. Most prices are just starting points for dealer negotiations. Not every dealer charges the same price, and like lawyers, there are plenty of different dealers to choose from.

As cynical as I may seem there is some validity to what I write. Truth is relative. It is for this reason that there never seems to be one standard for human behavior no matter what the interpersonal dynamic might be. Sports, politics or law. Take your pick or choose any field of human endeavor and what is true one moment for one person cannot be counted to be so for another no matter how similar the circumstances. Chaos theory aside we as humans, as unpredictable and as fickle as we are, create the ever-changing miasma that is existence.