Here’s the thing - I always like to be first.

Back when I started writing long entries at LGF I tackled topics that I thought were going to be timely, and tried to stay a bit ahead of the crowd.

Perhaps it’s my inner artist, but no matter how carefully constructed and logical many of my posts are, I am more an intuitive.

Unfortunately my intuition lately has led me to strange places.

I feel our society is become less focused. Ok, that probably doesn’t make sense. But, think of it as a societal wide ennui. That’s why the masses can be so easily distracted by the shiny baubles the television conglomerates put out daily. Attention spans are too short to be constructive to our long term well being, I think.

Maybe that is me being old, but I do not believe insight can be had (with rare exceptions) by a tweet.

Deep down, communication is about two brains syncing, a form of union. That’s why they used to call it “intercourse”. The highly abstract ideas and thoughts acquired by lengthy study and practice are not so easily bottled into the containers used by so many of our society today.

So, now I am sounding ever more like a curmudgeon, which may be quite appropriate.