Several thousand unique threads of fact, opinion or thought, delivered in the form of emails, txts, sms, im, www, face, voice, video links come rushing at us every day.  Life is so much more complex this way than when our anscestors sat in trees or caves and grunted shreiked or grunted their joys and frustrations.

Takes hurricanes, they used to just whack us – we once had no forecasts or satelite photos.  No warning or even acknowledgement that it was only a hurricane was given  in the middle of the thing, our anscestors had no way to even know the storm would sometime end.

Todays ecomonic rush to the bottom is in my mind like droughts and pestulance must have been for our ancestors.  An attack on crops (income) or wealth (stored crops) to threaten securtity.  It is a problem that most of us did not really see coming, if we are honest with ourselves.  At least even the best of us did not know the timing.  How did our ancestors deal with problems they couldn’t forecast or predict?

So today the problems we solve are ones where we have no shortage of different opinions and ideas, forecasts, projections, pundits advice columns, etc.  We often today can even manage to understand and model the effect of solving one problem in different ways would have on the outcome of the other problems!  What has stayed constant is that some members of our tribe, party, clan or neighborhood have done well enough to help lift us all.

The thing I notice about Obama and other successful folks is that they are seldom found idle, usually they are busy working in every “spare” moment, especially when the work consists of thinking and communicating.  So this is how I feel I am motivated by our new President, to get busy and to do whatever small part I can towards fixing problems of the country.  All our ability to forecast and understand the future outcome of our actions will only move us forward if our leaders still continue to make a constant effort and not grow idle or get stuck on some single thing.

Incidently, I slept for 16 hours earlier this weekend, so NOW I am kicking into gear.  Yes, I see the irony in that.

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