Remember how to smile?

I wonder if we shouldn't try it more often.

Yeah, yeah---I know: "The world is going to hell in a handbasket!"

98% of us on DU agree on approximately 98% of what we'd like to see happen in our nation. We disagree, temporarily, about HOW things should be achieved, but we agree pretty much on WHAT it is that should be achieved.

We have "enemies", but they are OUR enemies and they are not usually posters on this board.

Love---yes, I said that---should be a much stronger force in our lives than the substitute emotion of eternal and universal cynicism.

Spring is in the air where I live. It is a good season for fresh starts. I'll bet the flowers will bloom and the hummingbirds will return to our feeders no matter what stupid thing some pompous fool in Washington says tomorrow.

I'm not saying not to stay concerned and involved; just that there is life beyond the keyboard and the TV.

Just sayin'----

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I smile regularly...

Even here.

There are often posts that make me smile, or laugh...

There is much to enjoy in this life...

Remember Alistair Cooke?

He said this:

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. And so it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place...the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to hit a ball and to bounce a baby.

Words worth remembering, I think...

:hug:

than any buyable bauble.

The problem as I see it is that love is flung as from trust as truth is to what is just. A smile is the first step to bridging those gaps.

Happy to kick. Yes that means I'm smiling.

Within the concept of personal motivation, beyond just motivations of a better society, I had some thoughts on the quote below.

I'm not saying not to stay concerned and involved; just that there is life beyond the keyboard and the TV.

ahh... but that life outside of tv and keyboard, is in part shaped by the mass media effect on people. Because many people do think TV is real, or even that the Internet is real. (So in some fashion it is to them)

But on an individual motivator note, that is a part of the paradox. It requires money in our system to do most of those things away from the keyboard and the TV. Sure some of those things are able to be enjoyed at a small price, parks, beaches, libraries. But most interactions require some level of monetary security. Although that system has been shown to be corrupt.

So you actually match one of the individual starting points for thought, for me at least, many years ago.

If the system requires some resources like material things, and those things are shown as unjust.

Then one of the following must happen.

A person must except corruption, which is the slide down the slippery slope, I did not like that option.

Or

A person must change the injustice in the material or money systems, so that it is possible to achieve acquisition without corruption.

Or

The money system must be removed all together, although peoples natures would reestablish another system, and such an effect is more of a dramatic way to level the systems and distribution in an easier fashion, without addressing the real problems behind systems.



So I figured the 2nd option was best, because that system is done by people simply thinking on actions and systems around them, although it requires the belief that people are more good then bad.

So once that decision is chosen, how can that be done without money?

Learning how people think based on the programing systems like TV, and by injecting whatever thoughts a person has into the environment around that person. And using the keyboard to do that can in theory create a larger audience, although within some systems it can also create the presumption of an audience, although that presumption still achieves intent. Of coarse I also do agree such conversations have to happen when around people in real life also. But TV and keyboard become a big part of low cost information exchange, again with the presumption of non segmented non filtered systems.



So there may be more then TV and the keyboard, but since those other items are not accessible within acceptable actions within a current system, and since the best pick of coarse is to change those systems, the idea of tv and keyboard returns to where most action is spent, even though, yes there is more to the world then TV and a keyboard.

"Life is too important to be taken seriously"

:party: :toast: :bounce: :freak: :dunce: :beer: :thumbsup: :hi: :kick: :fistbump:

Choose your attitude and enjoy things as best you can.