Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen:
If in the first two or three sentences your eyes
glaze over and you wonder what kind of glue we’ve been sniffing, just close
this Crews Letter and forget it. Unlike
some emails that urge you to read to the end because “This is really great”, we
are warning you that this probably isn’t.
Sometimes, thinking out loud is helpful in sorting out some issues.
Epistemology addresses the
question, “How do we know what we know?”
If you collect up all of your senses, you could call them your mind’s
eye. Collectively, over time and experience,
your mind’s eye has developed a perception that is for you reality.
Your
mind’s eye defines the reality of the world you live in. What else but your perception can there
be?
At
some point in growing up, the adage, “I will believe it when I see it.” undergoes a metamorphous to become “I will see it when
I believe it.” How many people over the
age of twelve do you know who have an open mind? If the answer is more than 10%, did you count
yourself? Is it likely that you really
have an open mind or is it another fallacy that your mind’s eye is feeding you?
Globalization
is when an English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French
tunnel speeding in a German car with a Dutch engine and driven by a Belgian
driver high on Scottish whiskey while followed closely by Italian paparazzi on
Japanese motorcycles is treated by an American doctor using Brazilian medicines
but dies!
A Dutch boat is lifted out for maintenance
near our Perception. The English crew
plays American CDs while applying Turkish paint. Every fourth word that blares from the CD
starts with an F.
We have been asked more than once by
Europeans how we learned to talk like we do.
They are convinced that hip hop and the movies are the norm and we are
the odd balls. Why are Americans doing
this?
When we were in
It is understood that freedom of speech
includes the commercial media. Wouldn’t it be nice if there could be a free
press and a responsible media in the
Maybe
it’s the money.
Recently, we replenished the medicine
cabinet with prescription drugs. The
prices in
We had the same experience in
It was nearly as bad in
A frequently stated advantage for retiring
to the Texas Rio Grande valley is the availability of pharmaceuticals at
Mexican prices just across the border.
Why the
unbalance? If the
Maybe
it’s the money.
In the Broadway show “West Side Story” gang
members tell the local cop, Officer Krupsky, that
they are depraved because they are deprived.
That was fifty years ago. A lot
of Americans accepted this idea and we nationalized it. We explain away lawless zones in our inner
cities, riots after ball games that we lose or win and gang warfare on our
streets as an economic issue.
In the
In
In
The only theft we have had was the one night
that we were in
There is the joke about the Laker’s basketball star from
It is only funny because it is
believable.
Fred & Phyl
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