Being human, we possess both intuition and inhibition. The later is more for survival instinct, while the former propels us toward risks and change. I’d rather exercise more intuition. It is often said women are endowed with stronger intuition than men. Women are good judges of character, of situation especially of danger. Having elected into the House of Representatives, now is the time for this privileged group to exercise their power with no inhibition and all intuition.
I always write about the intersection of technology, cultures and commerce.
And this time, it feels like High Noon: technology-aided power-shift and power-sharing.
We have come a long way (100 years) since WWI which took millions of lives to pave the way for yet one more WW.
Isn’t it time for consensus and coalition building? Who holds on to what and how much of it. Yemen kids are dying by the thousands whose pictures I could not bear looking at.
It is hard to imagine the State we are in, given the struggles and strives our fathers have endured – in the hope that our future be better. That future is now. Ours. Yet the shovels keep digging 6-feet deep to bury bodies, in Pittsburg, in Thousand Oaks and KY. How many more Facebook accounts need to be deleted before our collective intuition kicks in. So much for inhibition.
It would be an interesting Ph-D thesis to study the links between Housing Crisis and the opioid Crisis or the rise of automation and the decline of American jobs. The net result: white men’s helplessness (and homelessness).
By intuition, you and I know that it’s a confluence of challenges, a perfect storm that hit the lower middle class: families that lost their houses, people their jobs, and kids their friends. When Amazon raises its minimum wages ( in anticipation of the Holidays Sales) at Whole Foods and seniors applying for jobs at fast foods, I think it’s time we turn off our intuition and inhibition. What have God brought!
Ingenious America, bell-bottom blues and creator of the Blues, from shipping news to fake news, Fender (guitars) to fences at the border (Texas and Arizona). Could we still stand tall? Can our Statue of Liberty? Let’s shed our inhibition and exercise our intuition.
We can and will do better, much better. Last century was just a dress rehearsal. Our America will not be constricted or defined by barbed wires (WWI learned all those lessons having used all those tactics). Instead, it will be defined by people of courage and clear conviction, standing at the intersection of great technologies, international commerce, taking Armstrong steps, like first responders, running toward and not away from danger. Heroes of a different kind for a different time.
It’s been 100 years, yet each day is still 24 hours and the work still needs to be done, machine-aided or not. Intuition counts.
Thang Nguyen 555 