A few thoughts after a long respite from blogging. Leaving a ship always is difficult. The average working person in America knows nothing about living at sea for six months at a time, in a small room, with a same-gendered roommate of your non-choosing. Then acquaintances and your familiar working environment in the blink of an eye are all gone. After laborious travels you arrive at a different place (the cruise lines call “vacation”) and attempt to reorient your life. Many people experience an extreme depression at the sudden loss, or at least seeming loss and drastic change. Only with discipline and the power of mind are you able to integrate once again into American society. The memories are the luck of the draw, sometimes sentimental, sometime melancholic. You must decide what to remember and what to leave behind. It seems the lower southern half of the eastern seaboard is drastically polluted with what must be diesel micro-dust.
Even in Nassau the air was fowl with aroma of the burning of fossil fuels. To a cruise guest this must not seem like a vacation, only a re-visiting of what has become the stark reality in America. Also the violence seems to increase proportionately as you drive south with Miami being the sole destination. Did not Florida used to be a tourist state? Only American musicians have any real grasp of American music. What must cruise lines continue to fill their bands with Europeans with no interest or ability in Motown, Jazz, or R&B music? Television has become trite propaganda produced for what must be attention deprived idiots. Corporate merging has dispensed with any system of Checks and Balances simply in the attempt to earn the coveted quarterly revenue for which prostrate shareholders desire. Wall Street once again has cursed the real economy of Capitalism and mainstream America. Soon, as predictions would have, a giant computer will rule the earth. Those without God will be left fighting on the deteriorating earth until their deaths. Many historic cultures believe the world will end in 2012. Y2K was pigeon poop compared to what is to come. Multi-Culturalism voraciously was murdered by Globalization furthering the economic and social gap between the rich and the poor. How can the rich perceive skating and bicycling as threatening in any way? They used to be methods chosen to ambulate to businesses. Now they are perceived as a grievous threats to elitist society. Gas prices again are rising. It has become apparent an evil dictator is on the take solely from the U.S. After being forced from power by effective but deadly public protests instigated by Facebook posts, he makes off with billions received for exercising sovereignty strengthening the rights of the U.S. to use the Suez Canal for transportation of black gold. The U.S. is experiencing the highest budget deficit in history, and that even with President Obama’s budget proposal, seems never to be fulfilled. Is a coup imminent?
