Don't bunt!

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of the immortals"

-- David Ogilvy, Advertising Executive

Metropolitan People

I define Metropolitan People as those who hunger to be at the source of life. To be among those who hunger for activity in cities that buzz and hum with experiences, views, scenes, and vibes is to actively enjoy the a metropolis. A metropolis serves as the mother-city of progressive thought, action, habit, practice, and vision that pervades the greater nation/land. San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Prague, Berlin, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico City, Cairo, etc.

Wikipedia defines a metropolis in this way:

It's a big city, in most cases with over half a million inhabitants in the city proper, and with a population of at least one million living in its urban agglomeration. Big cities belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which are not the core of that agglomeration, are not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. A metropolis is usually a significant economical, political and cultural center for some country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections and communications. The plural of the word is most commonly metropolises, though metropoleis [ooh, that's fun] is sometimes used as well.

It's a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or a large important city. Importance is defined metrically by way of behavior rates in the various forms of human commerce. Anything from sex to sales to sex sales, it all happens in a Metropolitan area. The goal of the metropolitan individual, is to ensure that the activity produced in his or her metropolitan area is desired by him or her. If not, we must follow up with action.

Ameriphobia

No, it's not how other countries hate us. It's how much we irrationally fear one another based on racial, cultural, social status, economic status. It's our differentness. Mostly our stark differences. We fear that which we do not understand. I'm not speaking comparatively. I just mean in the way in which we see ourselves devoid of the perceptions of other nations, peoples, extra-united states. They hate us from what I gather. We fear ourselves with creates a national fear of other nations who "surround" us.

Ameriphobia is a word... now. It's the internalized, US-centered, irrational fear of people among us who are too different from us. The 'us' is defined by the individual since like-minded individuals become the 'us'. Liberals fear conservatives and vice versa. Truly they both fear those who tread and linger in the purgatory of the undecided, unaffected middle.

Unfortunately, it's natural. What's more unfortunate is how unnaturally we have made Ameriphobic practices closer to being normative. It's our automatic reaction. It blinds us to the possibility of affecting the whole because all we see is the differentness.

Today's Horoscope

Daily Overview for August 15, 2008 (Today)

Gemini

Quickie

Try to avoid preachy types of people -- especially the ones you don't agree with.

Overview

You are far from set in your ways and today brings an opportunity to surprise the world by pivoting on an opinion that most folks had assumed you would hold until your very last breath.