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Friend of mine sent me this today, See if you can copy/paste it and watch it.
Here are my thoughts about this:
Okiedokie
So what are we supposed to do, get everyone to have tons of kids? Don't look at me, this factory is closed!
I can stand back and look at the big picture of the universe. Huge changes have happened through the ages, from the beginning of time. It's inevitable.
Changes like the ice ages, Jurasic times etc, the Romans conquering most of Europe, Germans, Huns, Kelts in the middle ages, all moving around Europe driving others out, settling in themselves; the frigging Vikings, plundering and taking over, the American Indians banned from their land to make room for US. The Dutch stealing people from Africa and selling them and creating a new culture in America. How about the industrial revolution? The Inquisition?
These mind boggling changes have gone on forever.
We cannot expect life to stay the way it is, too many dynamics going on in the world. Too few strong and sensible leaders to keep it all going in the right direction. What IS the right direction anyway?
They've been worried in Holland since the early 60s. They've watched and welcomed these foreigners with open arms, giving them homes, and money, free health care. Why? And now everyone bitches about it. Now that the government is starting to show brown faces.
Too late! Holland is a very small country, a very crowded country. It's mind boggling to realize how many people STILL continue to jam into this small country, already FULL of people. A country about a 13th of the size of the entire state of Georgia.
Going back to my hometown is a trip! Back in the old neighborhoods where my parents grew up, it's like walking around in Ankara! You no longer smell the cheese and the fried fish in the street markets, it's all cumin, cardamon, and curry. And women covered up from head to toe. And men with worry beads in their hands.
My parents watch this with shaking heads and big eyes, they do not really understand what has happened to their old neighborhoods. I guess for them it's already happened. My generation grew into the phenomena, or with it.
Frankly, I find it interesting to watch all this develop. All around us we see history in the making. There's no stopping it, it just IS.
I am not FOR it, I am not AGAINST it, I think it's an inevitable course of nature.
Just think about the issue with our Postal services...because of computers/email on it's way out the door like the Pony Express. The future demands progress in technology, science...who the hell knows where it will all ends up.
It doesn't frighten me, Our generation and the one of our kids won't really see the impact, We'll be dead, the kids will go with the flow. You hope.
For now I am happy to just pay attention to my family, our needs right here and now.
After all, we're less than a granule of sand in the universe.
And who knows? Some idiot might decide to just end it all with a few well places nuclear bombs.
Then what? We worried ourselves for nothing?
Enjoy your day, love the people around you.
Life is short enough as it is.
SGMKJ!
Here are my thoughts about this:
Okiedokie
So what are we supposed to do, get everyone to have tons of kids? Don't look at me, this factory is closed!
I can stand back and look at the big picture of the universe. Huge changes have happened through the ages, from the beginning of time. It's inevitable.
Changes like the ice ages, Jurasic times etc, the Romans conquering most of Europe, Germans, Huns, Kelts in the middle ages, all moving around Europe driving others out, settling in themselves; the frigging Vikings, plundering and taking over, the American Indians banned from their land to make room for US. The Dutch stealing people from Africa and selling them and creating a new culture in America. How about the industrial revolution? The Inquisition?
These mind boggling changes have gone on forever.
We cannot expect life to stay the way it is, too many dynamics going on in the world. Too few strong and sensible leaders to keep it all going in the right direction. What IS the right direction anyway?
They've been worried in Holland since the early 60s. They've watched and welcomed these foreigners with open arms, giving them homes, and money, free health care. Why? And now everyone bitches about it. Now that the government is starting to show brown faces.
Too late! Holland is a very small country, a very crowded country. It's mind boggling to realize how many people STILL continue to jam into this small country, already FULL of people. A country about a 13th of the size of the entire state of Georgia.
Going back to my hometown is a trip! Back in the old neighborhoods where my parents grew up, it's like walking around in Ankara! You no longer smell the cheese and the fried fish in the street markets, it's all cumin, cardamon, and curry. And women covered up from head to toe. And men with worry beads in their hands.
My parents watch this with shaking heads and big eyes, they do not really understand what has happened to their old neighborhoods. I guess for them it's already happened. My generation grew into the phenomena, or with it.
Frankly, I find it interesting to watch all this develop. All around us we see history in the making. There's no stopping it, it just IS.
I am not FOR it, I am not AGAINST it, I think it's an inevitable course of nature.
Just think about the issue with our Postal services...because of computers/email on it's way out the door like the Pony Express. The future demands progress in technology, science...who the hell knows where it will all ends up.
It doesn't frighten me, Our generation and the one of our kids won't really see the impact, We'll be dead, the kids will go with the flow. You hope.
For now I am happy to just pay attention to my family, our needs right here and now.
After all, we're less than a granule of sand in the universe.
And who knows? Some idiot might decide to just end it all with a few well places nuclear bombs.
Then what? We worried ourselves for nothing?
Enjoy your day, love the people around you.
Life is short enough as it is.
SGMKJ!
1 comment:
I haven't been able to watch your link, send it to my inbox and I'll watch it this weekend. For the rest of your post...and after 9 weeks of sniffing around Holland and observing and watching, and talking and eating and cycling and zigzagging between crowds of people, I recognize what you wrote about the changes around your parents. Particularly in the west there's a concentration of multiculturalism with here and there, well you won't call them ghetto's nowadays, but close to it of particular cultures like Turks, Maroccans, Greeks, Africans etc. etc., and don't forget the old Molukkans and 'Ambonezen', but they chose to live in old army bases to stay together in a clan, they would go home as soon as they could, but never could, the borders were closed for them.
Yeah, such a tiny country, overrun with too many people, even Germany, so much bigger, never took half of the amount of 'guest workers' than Holland. While the Dutch Government encouraged hundreds of thousands of skilled men and intelligent women to leave their home ground in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, up until the late eighties, to make place for the poor from other cultures, who came to forget their own wars and divisions. Don't forget Calypso, many Dutchies 'voluntarily' left Holland, they all had their individual reasons and were happily manipulated by governments who needed them to 'help' them across the big oceans and start a new life. I guess Holland has done the same, it gave many families from war torn countries around the world the opportunity to start a new life. In the process good old Dutchies like your parents have seen it all, from the first World War, through the depression and Second World War, through the Cold War and hippie and women's liberation, sexual revolution, etc. etc. uptil now, the global revolution with electronica, the computer age, global communication and travel, etc. etc. and now Global Warming and change.....
Haven't they seen it all?????
And us, our generation, the Baby Boomers, between the wall and the ship I call us sometimes. Between the old school and the new age you could say, we have seen a lot too. Been raised with moral values, religious values, work ethics, quite strict and as a child we didn't count, good old strict 1950s post war attitudes. Then roared through the 60s revolutions of the time, the hip 70s, the therapeutic eighties and got comfortable in the nineties. Now we all go down together at the start of the second millennium. Something like that to add to your black hole?
I'm with you nichtje, what's it all about? Indeed, Is This All There Is? And we are just a tiny sand grain on a beach and get washed and washed over...
Go with the flow Girl, and trust the Universe.
Will write you some Dutch stories later...
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