In a meditative trance/dream last night, I realised I had an email from an assisted living facility director that implicated him as an accessory to robbery in broad daylight.

In the old days, I would have used that email as leverage, a bargaining chip to maneuver the advantages of a deal in my favour.

But a deal is unnecessary in this case, because the use of leverage involves the police, mass media (“failing the newspaper test”), potential testimony, etc., for which I don’t want to waste my time.

So why do I mention the dream/trance if it is not real?

This question has no answer.

It is a metaphor, allegory, simile, tale, morality play, joke, theory, blog post inspiration.

An outward representation of my body’s processes at two in the morning.

Right in the middle of the changing times we call 2nd of September 2011 in many parts of the world.

As reluctant Comedian King of the Committee, I’m supposed to issue edicts on a daily basis.

But as a practical joking amateur philosopher/poseur, I disguise my edicts in fibs, fabrications and fables.

When we are our own gods, do we act with impudence, impotence, impunity or omnipotence?

Conscience or conscientiousness is a concept buried in our brain functions.

We may teach our children immutable laws, morals, ethics of our culture but their bodies are preprogrammed to act upon our teaching in ways we are often unaware (although basic observations of their behaviours as they grow up give us clues).

Thus, it is how they choose to occupy themselves in providing the necessities of human living upon which I focus my thoughts.

Their preprogramming tells me how easily they can accommodate the requirements for providing necessities – food, shelter, clothing – in pursuit of satisfying their higher brain functions.

Your immutable ideas tell me how they’re going to attempt to mimic their fellow humans while deciding to move into (or stay in) circles and subcultures of “most favoured” humans or stay in (or move into) less favoured subcultures and circles.

One can worship at the altar of the profit motive and also seek to maximise happiness of the human capital involved in gaining maximum favour from the God of Profitmakingtaking.

Either/or is a thought process of last resort.

We are far from the dire, desperate times that only “either/or” can rescue us from.

My high school prom date in Blountville, Tennessee, USA, and constant companion for a time in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, now lives with her husband in Singapore, Singapore.  Nobody forced them into a deal to make that decision – they chose of their own free will, following the job abd lifestyle opportunities in a global marketplace.

A lesson in positive attitudes about changing times.

The moral to this story is self-explanatory.