The Downside

I'm new to this medium, but into communications all my life. Some days, like today, I think a blog is just an excellent way of getting a story out. Books are shrinking down, newspapers fading, TV shrinking, but this medium is exploding!

Sometimes, though, it feels a little like the chronicles of the sinking! Take today's MSNBC blog - http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/24/4961091-diving-down-to-document-titanic-debris - We know more now than we ever knew before, but facts are hard to come by. Let's go look!

In a world of "spin", we want to get down to whatever it is that's real. For example, today's other reading - jimvb.home.mindspring.com/2006/07/five-biggest-problems-in-world-today.html connected in such a good way. The biggest problems in the entire world come down to the Garden-of-Eden problem - I want my ME-time, my ME-stuff, no matter what the cost. Nothing new there! Just new manifestations.

I am determined to have my luxury foods, my air-conditioning, my on-and-on, and the world just needs to develop systems to manage that for me!

Getting down to it? Global warming and Peak Oil. That's getting down to it. Sometimes it seems that the downside of whatever we call the great final conflict is being laid out, with elaborate preparations that mask the seriousness of it all.

When we dig down, its' not just curiosity........ we need to find the foundation.

In a tricky world, sometimes we find the foundations flawed. In a south-east Texas town, in a housing subdivision, all the houses had broken foundations. Investigation revealed that when the foundations were poured, just before the concrete flowed into the mold, the crew moved the re-bar to the next foundation site. No re-bar. As the pace picked up, many foundations even had grass on the underside.

Ever wonder about getting to the downside of the world's great problems? I do.

Share a thought?