upcoming upheaval

In the next few days, I may not be able to post regularly as moving day approaches. I plan to disconnect and pack the computer last...but time will tell how those plans go.

Plans being what they are, I have to adjust all the time.

"They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than
ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things."

There is a review by So Many Books of a Terry Pratchett book, Equal Rites which includes the excerpt above. It makes me laugh and made me think of any number of people, me included, who could feel the same way -- in way too many situations!

Lux lotus has interesting thoughts on balancing idealism with realism in the capitalist world we live in. Makes one wonder if living a pure life of idealism with passion is possible. But then, look how much individuals collectively have accomplished in the relief effort for the tsunami victims, my cynical observations of tainted administrative policies and opportunistic cons aside. It is tiring how anything that seems to be interesting seems to be sponsored by some commercial enterprise--perhaps with the exception of a few public media outlets, who raise a lot of their money from loyal listeners/readers/viewers. But even they lust after and sometimes get big corporate sponsors, don't they?

I wonder how someone like David Suzuki handles that issue?

Gotta go labour for the bread that perisheth.

If I don't post here for the next week or so, be patient. I will be back after the move, if not sooner.