Archive for 2008
Scarcity of weekend
As the world advance, we manage to overcome many factors that once before considered as our limitations. Steadily, geographical scope has become less restricted with the amelioration of transportation and the development of internet. In term of capital, the establishment of stock markets have allowed endowment to transfer from investors to entrepreneurs, although the recent financial crisis has raised our eyes on the efficacy of capitalists’ system.
No doubt, such improvements help us to extenuate time constraint. Our pile of time slacks has been build up from the reduction amount of time for traveling or creating our wealth. It also makes sense to think it logically. Yet, overtime the burden of allocating our time to finish our tasks have turned our to be more demanding.
The fact of less sleeping or less playing should intrigue our mind. Technology doesn’t relieve us from loads as we expected. Instead it ties us up on further commitment. No wonder oftentimes we retreat to seclude ourselves from worldly responsibilities. A fairly distributed of lifestyle before, now it skews to concentrate on our very moment (mathematically, from Uniform distribution to Pareto distribution). We work hard to accumulate our time that enough for us to take days off. That is the price we pay to live in this modern world.
Post Election
Hangover is gone. All the good feeling should now be transferred into getting things done. Let’s commence with the transition team. The lineups should make us confident. No doubt each has expertise that administration needs so badly.
Yet, it doesn’t curb us from being critical.
A visit of Naomi Klein, the author of Shock Doctrine, reminded the locals about the need to engage with the new administration. A course of past eight years is too painful to be repeated. While emotionally affected, we need to wise up our view. Like financial mess, shorthand approach to lament the current administration doesn’t help. Recall what Mr. Greenspan recently admitted.
Experience from Clinton’s era will be helpful, but it requires such careful thought not to assume our position as always right. For Obama, filling the key positions doesn’t have to be solely referred to your predecessor. Show your readiness to make a clean break, as you promised during your campaign.
For the rest, close the gap and get involve. The journey has only begun.
One Thing Leads To Another
They may not correlate each other. Thousand miles apart evince the impossibility of the connection. Yet, the words spread. Not necessary influence the outcome, but the higher cause marks on the way we perceive the process. As we may not have liberty to decide the end, we have power to direct towards our destination.
Albeit, a cautious evaluation is needed for every improvement we made. Encourage it to support the progress. Our energy and efforts deserve acknowledgment. Yet, we shouldn’t call a halt after this gaining step. Take it as a stepping stone for the next level. More to come, only if we seek for them.
Provided the release and then declaring the detention as unconstitutional has proved the existence of court. Relief we are, but a task ahead is to make her run again.
