[Seahawk]

When Maslow developed his hierarchy of needs as a theory in psychology, proposed in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation", he forgot to include the stages beyond Self Actualization: Navel Gazing, The Art of Me, Lint Picking and The Evening News.

Humans live better in the mean than ever, have the ability to engage in a level of introspection that is unparallelled and perhaps paralyzing: Our comfort, the general lack of need, the ease with which most of us get to lead our lives has given way to a lack of urgency in survival skills; the necessity of finding the next meal is gone...we worry about ancillary issues divorced from hunting and gathering.

We gather trivia and obsess about it. The big issues (energy, food, WATER) are mixed with the mundane and not addressed. Our lack of focus as a country, our inability to discriminate may hurt us, but I think not, mainly because the folks engaged in the production of energy, water and food are not political.

We are fine, will be fine.