Go Outside

Go Outside. This was the article of an Austin American Statesman article from the other day. American kids don't play outside, eat sugar and suffer from diabetes, don't exercise and have become obese. And when you stay inside in an air-conditioned environment your body does not have to cool itself down. We burn less calories by living in an "air-conditioned nightmare," as Henry Miller said in the title of his 1945  novel. Leave it to a novelist to figure out air conditioning signaled a step down a slippery slope way back in 1945.

So what's the alternative to living inside in an air-conditioned nightmare. Go outside! What will you find out there? Who knows... never can tell. I have been walking the hills of a nearby neighborhood.

A friend explains Andrew Breitbart's early demise as a case of him being "too tense because he could not control the future of the world..."

Giving up control... now there's a theme!

Why do we prefer outside to inside? In days of yore the outside was a dangerous place, full of wild animals and physical threat. We tamed the American continent and built incredible infrastructure and well-insulated houses. The suburban palace is a programmed environment. Temperature controlled. Media systems come in through the flat screen televisions. We can even broadcast ourselves now on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, punching away on laptops and cellphones. Why leave the house? (see paragraph one)