Since the creation of the international youth movement

I am concerned.

14,347 days until the news is revealed and we don't have much time left in the schedule for slippage.

My budget is spread so thin you can't tell if anyone is getting paid, both a bonus and a worry.

One 1000-year projection shows that after business and government make their connections transparent and become a publicly-recognised entity, a counterrevolutionary movement will remove the natural resistance represented by the mainstream opposition that is always calling for a revolution.

The balance will shift and topple over.

As a result, people will move the weight of their emotional belief sets en masse toward a quasireligious leader who doesn't exist (i.e., a robotic being without full human privileges).

This projection assumes the wealthy/destitute gap continues to widen.

Another projection shows that an enlightnment of sorts spreads as more and more people are able to afford to integrate instant knowledge-integration modules into their central nervous systems, which raises the exponent of total social/tribal wisdom.

Both projections include shorterm periods of what we can call "dark days ahead."

Remember that life is a series of comparisons - am I hungrier now than I was a moment ago? am I in better or worse environmental conditions than a year ago?

Therefore, "dark days ahead" is a ratio comparing specific, local conditions for each and every one of us to previous days you/we have lived.

Simply a clear indication of the "golden years" syndrome, not a prediction of an apocalypse.

Everything tends to get more expensive and scarcity of resources naturally changes our preference for whatever the next popular "must have" consumables will be.

Our labels and symbology will reflect our ability to readily adapt or not.

It is in our reticence to change that my thought set is reflected in recent blog entries, magnifying combinations of conversations I have heard and/or participated in.

I am an optimist at heart but, as a humourist/satirist, I find it illustrating to stray from a dry, logical, theoretical, academic presentation of future predictions and throw in wry distortions of where we think we are going in what we say to each other.

My colleagues and associates pay me dearly for these observations, wisely applying resources to essential tasks that ensure the future we want is the future that pays off the best investments/bets.

For instance, after being warned that a group of mobsters was being pulled off duty, so to speak, my network moved in to keep those markets running optimally and prevent a vacuum from sucking in the wrong elements.

That way, we can have more resources at our disposal to prevent as many of the negative aspects of some of the future predictions as we can.

A "can do" spirit is the fundamental motivator behind virtually poking us with a stick to think outside the think outside the box for thinking's sake mentality that grips us and won't let us make progress.

This time period will pass. What will my generation have to say about its participation, when we held the reins?

Obama is just slightly older than me so he represents my generation's hold on the executive branch of the U.S. government that represents much in the image of this political entity to the rest of the world.

Thus, my expectations of him are exceedingly higher than any president before him and probably any president after. I also believe, even though I didn't vote for him, that if you don't support his efforts to improve the U.S. economy and its image, you don't support mine.

Use your imagination about where that'll get you.

Thanks to Melanie at Cafe Berlin, the folks at Gibson's BBQ, the students at Faith Presbyterian who made Valentine's Day cards for the homebound, Lisa's superb service at Cheddar's today and Donna at Hobby Lobby. A list of more thanks to appear in an upcoming blog.