NIGER, NAIVETY AND NECESSITY

AVITW - (PUNS AND IRONY INCLUDED)

I SEE WHERE THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH OBESITY, INCLUDING:
1. CHANGING THE SYSTEM OF SIZING CLOTHES; (DID YOU MISS THAT ONE?)
2. THE ‘FALL OUT’ FROM THE ‘EXPANSION’ OF COMMERCIAL FOOD FRYERS THAT CAN EASILY BE CONSUMED IN FRONT OF THE ELECTRONIC BABY SITTER, TRACEABLE, IN GREAT MEASURE, TO THE ABSENCE OF NUTRITIOUS MEALS FORMERLY PREPARED BY SOMEONE WHO USED TO BE CALLED "MOTHER";
3. THE SELF DESTRUCTION OF PERSONAL HEALTH LEADING TO ASTRONOMICAL MEDICAL COSTS FOR THE UNFORTUNATE THIRD PARTY PAYERS, WHO PROBABLY DESERVE TO REAP THE HARVEST OF THE SYSTEM THEY SPAWNED, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO ASSURE AN ECONOMIC WINDFALL TO THE PROVIDERS OF MEDICAL CARE, BUT, WHICH HAS MORPHED INTO A HYDRA MONSTER GOBBLING UP AN INORDINATE PORTION OF THE NATION’S ECONOMIC RESOURCES;
4. RENDERING OBSOLETE THE FORMER SYSTEM OF ALLOCATING SPACE AND WEIGHT TO OUR PRIMARY SYSTEM OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND WREAKING HAVOC WITH THE PERSONNEL, SUPPOSEDLY INVOLVED IN PROTECTION OF THE POPULATION;

(ONE WINCES IN HORROR AT THE SCENARIO OF THE LOCAL CONSTANBULARY WADDLING ALONG IN PURSUIT OF BUFF YOUNG CRIMINALS OR DEALING WITH PHYSICALLY DEMANDING EMERGENCIES.)

HAVE NOT BEEN EXPORTED TO NIGER.

OF COURSE, THE ‘WHALE WATCHING" HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER, IF ONE IS DRAWN TO GROTESQUE OBJECTS, BUT, I DIGRESS.

RETURNING TO THE PLIGHT AND MONUMENTAL HUMAN TRAGEDY UNFOLDING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY, ONE ENCOUNTERS THE STARK REALITIES OF THE VAGARIES OF BIRTH, THE INEQUITIES BETWEEN THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS AND THE EXISTING (NOT LOOMING) CHALLENGE OF SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE.

STILL, THIS CHALLENGE IS NOT A NEW ONE. THE CLIMATE HAS ETERNALLY EFFECTED THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD AND THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER. FROM THE BOWELS OF HISTORY COME STORIES OF DROUGHTS, FLOODS, PLAGUES AND JUST PLAIN BAD LUCK, IF NOT STUPIDITY, AS HUMANS COMPETED WITH ANIMALS FOR SURVIVAL. TO SOME EXTENT, HUMANS EKED OUT A DUBIOUS VICTORY, IF ONE LOOKS AT THE ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION AND VIRTUAL, IF NOT ACTUAL, EXTINCTION OF VARIOUS SPECIES THAT ONCE SO PLENTIFULLY PROVIDED FOOD AND CLOTHING TO THE MOST INTELLIGENT, IF NOT THE WISEST, LARGEST, STRONGEST OR SWIFTEST OF THE MANY SPECIES, AS A "WIN".

HUMANS MUST NOW COMPETE WITH OTHER HUMANS FOR THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE, AS WELL AS THE EXCESSES TO WHICH THEY HAVE BECOME ADDICTED. ALTHOUGH THE NATURE OF THE ADVERSARY HAS CHANGED, THE CHALLENGE HAS NOT. DESPITE GREAT PROGRESS IN THE PRODUCTION, ACQUISITION, DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE OF NUTRITIONAL GOODIES, THE HUMAN SPECIES HAS ‘EXPANDED’ TO THE POINT WHERE IT IS ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE TO PROVIDE BASIC NECESSITIES TO EXISTING INDIVIDUALS. DARE ANYONE CLAIM THAT IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE THESE NECESSITIES FOR THE PROJECTED GROWTH OF THE HUMAN RACE IN THE FUTURE?

THE AUTHOR POSTULATES THAT THE PLANET IS SOMEWHAT OVER STRESSED, IF NOT TAPPED OUT, IN ITS ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE ON A SUSTAINABLE BASIS. ASIDE FROM THE SUM TOTAL OF FOOD, WATER AND BREATHABLE AIR AVAILABLE, WHICH ARE FINITE AT SOME LEVEL IN PROPORTION TO THE NEEDS OF THE WORLD POPULATION, THERE IS THE MITIGATING FACTOR OF LOGISTICS INVOLVED BETWEEN THE LOCATION OF THE RESOURCES AND THE LOCATION OF THE NEED, WHICH IS EXPONENTIALLY COMPROMISED BY INDIVUAL AND CORPORATE AVERICE, GOVERNMENT DUPLICITY AND COMPLICITY AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC PREJUDICE, IF NOT OUTRIGHT HATRED, BETWEEN THE VARIOUS GROUPS.

IN A WORLD BESET WITH A MYRIAD OF PROBLEMS AND NEEDS, THE PRIORITIES OF THE BODY POLITIC ARE SELDOM FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS OF THOSE AT THE LOWEST LEVEL OF HUMAN SOCIETY WHERE THE ABILITY TO SURVIVE IS NOTABLY ABSENT. WHEN THIS FRAGILE ABILITY IS STRESSED BY LESS THAN FAVORABLE NATURAL OR MAN MADE CIRCUMSTANCES, BE IT A LACK OF ARABLE SOIL, AVAILABLE WATER AND A BENIGN TERPERATURE OR A LACK OF INSTRUMENTS OF AGRICULTURE AND SUPPLIES OF POWER, BE IT CHEMICAL, ANIMAL OR HUMAN OR THE EXISTENCE OF DESTRUCTIVE ORGANISMS, MICROSCOPIC OR MACROSCOPIC OR THE OMNI-PRESENT HUMAN PREDITORS, BE THEY CRIMINALS OR AGENTS OF GOVERNMENT, (NOTE: THE AUTHOR FAILS TO DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TYPES) THE MEANS FOR SURVIVAL FOR A NEEDY POPULATION SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST.

IN THE COURSE OF HISTORY, FROM ANCIENT EGYPT TO MODERN U.S.A., PRUDENT AND MORE VIABLE POPULATIONS HAVE OFTEN INTERVENED TO "SAVE THE DAY", SO TO SPEAK, AND PROVIDED EMERGENCY AID TO THOSE LESS FORTUNATE SOULS UNABLE TO WITHSTAND A GIVEN SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES. IN AN EARLIER TIME, INHABITANTS OF FOOD DEFICIENT AREAS OFTEN WANDERED, OR MIGRATED PURPOSELY, TO NEW AREAS WHERE FOOD AND WATER WERE AVAILABLE BECAUSE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS HAD NOT DEPLETED THESE RESOURCES AT AN EARLIER TIME. ALAS, THOSE PLACES NO LONGER EXIST AND, IN FACT, SOME OF THESE FORMER PRODUCTIVE LOCATIONS NOW HAVE HAD THEIR CAPACITY TO PRODUCE EVEN MINIMAL SUSTENANCE DESTROYED.

IN AN EFFORT TO REPLACE THESE DECIMATED AREAS, HUMANS HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY CONDUCTED SLASH AND BURN OPERATONS TO MILLIONS, IF NOT BILLIONS, OF ACRES OF LAND IMPORTANT TO THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF NATURE, TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD POPULATION. SINCE THESE AREAS DO NOT NATURALLY LEND THEMSELVES TO AGRICULTURE, IT REQUIRES EVEN MORE ARTIFICIAL STIMULATION TO PRODUCE LESS. IT IS A PATH TO PERDITION WITHOUT END, UNLESS, OF COURSE, THE "FITTEST" ARE WILLING TO LET THE "UNFIT" EXPERIENCE THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR BEHAVIOR.

OVER THE LAST HALF CENTURY, WELL MEANING, BUT, ILL CONCEIVED, EFFORTS TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN BY THIS COUNTRY IN BEHALF OF NEARLY EVERY NATION AND PSEUDO NATION ON THE PLANET. THESE EFFORTS WERE OFTEN ABETTED BY OTHER NATIONS OF LESSER STATURE WHOSE PITTANCE CONTRIBUTED WOULD SCARCELY BE NOTICED HAD NOT WE BORN THE BRUNT OF THE RESPONSIBILITY AND COSTS. FOR A NATION WITH LESS THAN 5% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION, IF MY MATH DOES NOT FAIL ME, THESE HEROIC UNDERTAKINGS HAVE ACOMPLISHED NOTHING MORE THAN THE SAVING OF THOUSANDS SO TENS OF THOUSANDS CAN LIVE IN PERIL, WHEREUPON, WE REPEAT THE PROCESS OF SAVING TENS OF THOUSANDS SO MILLIONS CAN PERISH. IN THE PROCESS, WE HAVE EARNED THE CONTEMPT, IF NOT THE ENMITY, OF NEARLY ALL OF THE NATIONS WE HAVE HELPED AND MANY OF THOSE WHO PURPORTED TO BE OUR FRIENDS.

COME NOW THE RICH AND FAMOUS, KNOWN MAINLY FOR WEARING RIDICULOUS ATTIRE AND THEIR ABILITY TO JUMP UP AND DOWN WHILE MAKING MAKE LOUD NOISES AND HOLDING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. IT STRETCHES THE IMAGINATION TO THINK THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS, HOWEVER WELL MEANING THEY MAY BE, HAVE THE INSIGHT OR FORESIGHT TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS AT HAND. WHAT THEY DO HAVE IS THE NOTORIETY TO GAIN ATTENTION AND PERHAPS MUSTER SOME FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR DEALING WITH THE SYMPTOMS, MUCH THE SAME AS A WATERBOY PUTS A BANDAID ON THE STAR ATHLETE WHO, SUFFERING FROM UNCONTROLLABLE TRAUMA, IS NOW UNABLE TO FUNCTION AND MAY, IN FACT, BE AT DEATH'S DOOR.

ONE SHOULD NEVER BE CRITICAL OF THOSE WHO SENSE A RESPONSIBILITY TO BE THEIR BROTHERS' KEEPER, HOWEVER, AS ALL PHYSICIANS KNOW, THE FIRST THING ONE DOES IS TO STABLIZE THE SITUATION AND THE SECOND IS TO DO NO HARM. THE THROWING OF FOOD, IN WHATEVER SMALL AMOUNTS WERE GENERATED IN PROPORTION TO THE NEED, DOES NOT SEEM TO BE THE PROPER FIRST STEP TOWARD STABILIZATION AND THE EFFICACY OF SAVING MILLIONS SO TENS OF MILLIONS CAN DIE, SEEMS LOST ON THE WELL MEANING BUT NAIVE INDIVIDUALS WHO SEEM TO WANT TO STIR THE POT OF PUBLIC OPINION, APPARENTLY ONCE EVERY TWENTY YEARS, AND THEN RETURN TO THEIR RESPECTIVE LIVES OF LUXURY FAR REMOVED FROM THE HORROR OF REALITY.

TO MY KNOWLEDGE, NO ACCOUNTING HAS QUANTIFIED THE RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT OF TIME AND TALENT, WHICH SEEMS TO BE LIMITED TO SHOWING UP FOR A FEW MINUTES OF ENTERTAINMENT OVER A PERIOD OF A COUPLE OF HOURS, HOWEVER FAR ONE MAY STRETCH THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM. ONE ASSUMES THAT ALL OF THEIR EXPENSES WERE COVERED, EVEN IF THEY WERE NOT COMPENSATED, AS IS CUSTOMARY WHEN THEY SHOW UP AT A "FOR PROFIT" EVENT. HAVING A SOMEWHAT LIMITED KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROCESS, ONE MAY STILL ASSUME THAT THE BULK OF THE "HEAVY LIFTING" INVOLVED IN MAKING ARRANGEMENTS AND PRESENTING THE 'SPECTACLE' WAS HANDLED BY WELL PAID PEONS, WHO CONCEIVABLE RECEIVED EXORBITANT REIMBURSEMENT FOR 'EXPENSES' IF NOT UNION WAGES. IT CERTAINLY CANNOT BE CHEAP TRAVELING GREAT DISTANCES, STAYING IN UPSCALE HOTELS AND EATING IN NICE RESTAURANTS WHILE PROVIDING THESE 'EVENTS'.

ONE DOES NOT ANTICIPATE THAT INDIVIDUALS DEIGNING TO OVERTLY PUBLICIZE THEIR GENRE, ALTHOUGH THEY CERTAINLY RECEIVED TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF FREE PUBLICITY BY PERFORMING UNDER THIS AEGIS, WOULD BE EXPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THEIR OVERSTUFFED BANK ACCOUNTS TO SUCH AN EFFORT. IF I AM MISTAKEN, ONE MUST THEN ASK, "WHAT PERCENT OF THEIR NET WORTH WAS INVOLVED?". ASSUMING A LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NUMBERS AND THEIR SINCERITY, ONE CAN TRULY GAUGE THE LEVEL OF THEIR CONCERN.

IT MIGHT BE WELL TO REMEMBER THE WIDOWS'S MITE, WHICH REPRESENTED ALL SHE HAD, AS AGAINST THE ‘HUGE’ OFFERINGS OF THE WEATHY MERCHANTS OF THE DAY, WHICH IS CURRENTLY REFERRED TO AS ‘CHUMP CHANGE’. A TRULY SKEPTICAL OR CYNICAL PERSON MIGHT ALSO ASSUME THAT THE PRINCIPALS ARE ENTITLED TO, AND WILL CERTAINLY CLAIM, HUGE TAX BENEFITS BASED UPON THEIR EFFORTS WHILE THEIR WELL HEELED ATTORNEYS AND ACCOUNTANTS WILL, NO DOUBT, BENEFIT AS WELL, BUT, THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC.

RETURNING TO THE CATASTROPHE DU JOUR, "WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?". STABILIZATION? DO NO HARM? NATURAL CONSEQUENCES? FORM A COMMITTEE? LOOK PAST THE PRESENT AND TOWARD THE FUTURE? OTHERS? ONE COULD WRITE A BOOK, NOT A TREATISE, ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE SITUATION AND WHAT IS NEEDED TO STABLIZE THE SUFFERING POPULATION. SEVERAL MORE BOOKS COULD BE WRITTEN ON WHY NONE OF THE PROPOSALS AND MINIMAL ACTIONS HAVE EVER AND WILL NEVER SERVE THE STATED PURPOSE.

ONE ALSO SUPPOSES THAT, GIVEN THE DIRE NATURE OF THE SITUATION, THE WORLD COULD SCARCELY ADD TO THE TRAGEDY. HOWEVER, THE AUTHOR HAS UNLIMITED FAITH IN THE COLLECTIVE INCOMPETENCE OF ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENTAL BODIES TO DO SO. IF ONE EXAMINES A CENTURY OF HISTORY IN SIMILAR SITUATIONS, BUT, POSSIBLY LESS SERIOUS OR WIDESPREAD, ONE WILL FIND, WITH POSSIBLY ONE EXCEPTION, THAT THE ENTITIES SUPPOSEDLY DEALING WITH THE SITUATION INVARIABLY FIND A WAY FOR ADDITIONAL MULTITUDES TO DIE, WHILE THEY DITHER AND MERCENARIES, IN AND OUT OF GOVERNMENT, PROFIT FROM THE MISERY. SUCH ARE THE LESSONS OF HISTORY AND ONE FAILS TO DISCERN ANY SEA CHANGE ON THE HORIZON.

IN THE ABSENCE OF EITHER OF THE FORMER ALTERNATIVES, (STABILAZION OR DOING NO HARM) THERE REMAINS THE PHENOMENON OF NATURAL CONSEQUENCES WHICH EVOLVE FROM EXCESSES OF ANY TYPE. THIS NECESSARILY MEANS THAT THE SUFFERING AND DYING WILL CONTINUE UNABATED WITH THE WEAKEST BEING "LIBERATED" FROM THEIR MISERY, THUS ALLOWING OTHERS TO TAKE THEIR PLACE AND REPEAT THE PROCESS. WHILE OTHERS IN THE WORLD SQUANDER THEIR WEALTH AND POWER IN AN EFFORT TO EXPORT THEIR PARTICULAR BRAND OF GOVERNMENT, RELIGION OR COMMERCE, THE “SYMPTOMS” OF WORLD COLLAPSE CONTINUE UNABATED. THE CANARY IN THE MINE AGAIN CALLS US TO PAY ATTENTION.

WHAT ABOUT A COMMITTEE? FORGET IT! I JUST THREW THAT IN FOR SOME LEAVENING AMID THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION. IT IS A GIVEN THAT A COMMITTEES ONLY EXIST WHEN THE LEADER(S) DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO OR LACK THE WILL TO DO IT. FEW LEADERS ARE HESITANT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR DOING SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO TURN OUT RIGHT, NOT THAT IT HAPPENS VERY OFTEN. ON THE OTHER HAND, COMMITTEES ARE GREAT FOR BUYING TIME AND SHARING, IF NOT BEING BLAMED OUTRIGHT FOR, THE FAILURE. OF COURSE, NO ONE CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

THE AUTHOR HAS TENDED TO BE CRITICAL OF THOSE WHO MAKE A PROFESSION OUT OF CRITICIZING THE ACTIONS, ALBEIT SOMETIMES MERITED, OF OTHERS, RATHER THAN ENTER THE FRAY. IN AN EFFORT TO AVOID THE SAME DISGRACEFUL POSITION, ONE SUGGESTS THAT LOOKING TO THE FUTURE MIGHT OFFER SOME ALTERNATIVES FOR AVOIDING ANOTHER DISASTER. THAT OPTIONS EXIST, THERE IS NO DOUBT. THAT THEY WILL BE PURSUED, HE HAS GREAT DOUBT.

IN ANY CATASTROPHY, ONE MUST ACCEPT REALITY BEFORE MOVING FORWARD. WHEN AN ACTION HAS NO PRODUCTIVE OUTCOME, ONLY THE MOST FOOLHARDY FOLLOW THE LEADERS OVER THE CLIFF. A SIMPLE ANALOGY EXISTS IN THE ECONOMIC REALM, BE IT GAMBLING OR INVESTING, WHERE THE LATTER SEEMS TO BE LITTLE MORE THAN A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE FORM OF THE FORMER, E.G. PREDICTING THE FUTURE WITHOUT CONTROL OF THE VARIABLES. ONE SOON LEARNS IN THESE EDUCATIVE ENVIRONS, UNLESS ONE IS ‘PLAYING’ WITH OTHER PEOPLES' MONEY, AS IN THE CASE OF THE CORPORATE COLLAPSES IN RECENT MEMORY AND THE LOOMING GOVERNMENTAL COLLAPSE IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, THAT LOSSES MUST BE ABSORBED AND NOTHING OF BENEFIT CAN BE GAINED FROM THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD. IN THE SOCIAL REALM, THE CONCEPT OF "TOUGH LOVE" COMES TO MIND.

THOSE WHO CREATED THIS DISASTER AND/OR ARE CAUGHT UP IN IT, HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO PAY THE PRICE. THERE ARE SIMPLY TOO MANY PEOPLE ALIVE IN THE REGION FOR THE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT. BRINGING IN ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WILL ONLY COMPOUND THE PROBLEM WHICH MUST THEN BE FACED IN THE FUTURE. FOR THE TIME BEING, IT IS RESTRICTED, FOR THE MOST PART, TO CONTINENTAL AFRICA, BUT IT WILL SURELY MIGRATE, IF NOT CONTAINED.

GREATER MINDS, AND THOSE WITH A GREATER LIFESPAN, NEED TO ASCERTAIN THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF A GIVEN REGION, IF NOT THE PLANET AS A WHOLE. TO ACCEPT, WITHOUT QUESTIONING, THAT ALL WILL LIVE AT A SUBHUMAN LEVEL AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE SEEMS UNTHINKABLE. MALTHUSIAN POSTULATES ARE NOT INEVITABLE. THEY ARE ONLY POSSIBLE WHEN AND IF HUMANS ARE PERMITED TO PROCREATE WITHOUT LIMITS. THUS APPEARS THE FIRST CLUE TO COPING WITH PRESENT DISASTERS AND MITIGATING FUTURE DIFFICULTIES.

THOSE INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL CLANS, WITH THE ABILITY AND DESIRE TO SURVIVE, NEED TO BE PROVIDED WITH THE SUPPLIES AND TOOLS, PRIMATIVE THOUGH THEY MIGHT BE, TO INITIATE SUBSISTANCE FARMING IN AREAS OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES, THE AFOREMENTIONED ARABLE LAND AND WATER. IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT THESE RESOURCES EXIST IN GREAT MEASURE, BUT WILL PROBABLY SUFFICE FOR A SELECTIVE FEW. HOW AND BY WHOM THESE PEOPLE WILL BE DETERMINED WOULD CERTAINLY CHALLENGE THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. IT SHOULD ALSO BE OBVIOUS THAT, UNLESS THE REMAINING POPULATION IS RESTRAINED, ESPECIALLY THOSE SUSTAINED BY MONEY AND SUPPLIED WITH ARMS BY INTERLOPERS, THEY WILL QUICKLY OVERPOWER THESE "GENESIS PEOPLE" AND THE “SOCIAL EXPERIMENT” DESIGNED TO PROTECT VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, WILL FAIL. THE PREVIOUSLY DOCUMENTED SCIENTIFIC MODEL DESIGNED TO PROTECT OTHER ENDANGERED SPECIES SHOULD SERVE WELL IN THIS ENDEAVOR E.G. PROTECTION OF HABITAT; PROTECTION FROM PREDITORS; AND BREEDING IN ‘CAPTIVITY’. OBVIOUSLY BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION WILL BE NECESSARY, FOR, IF THESE FEW CONTINUE IN THE WAYS OF THEIR PREDECESSORS, THEY WILL ENGENDER THE SAME FATE. VAMOS A VER!

REMEMBER, ALL PROBLEMS ARE NOT SUSCEPTABLE TO RESOLUTION. HOWEVER, THOSE CREATED BY HUMANS ARE NOT IRREVERSIBLE, IF THE URGENCY IS UNDERSTOOD AND THE WILL EXISTS TO SURVIVE. SADLY, THE PRESENT LEADERSHIP DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY, MUCH LESS CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE, BEYOND WHATEVER POWER AND PROFIT MAY ACCRUE TO THEIR ILK, CUSTOMARILY, WITHIN THEIR PROJECTED LIFESPAN. PERHAPS A CLEARER PRESENTATION OF THE "PROBLEM" WILL SERVE TO FOCUS THE WORLD'S ATTENTION WHICH IS NOW LIMITED TO LAMENTING THE "SYMPTOMS".

ENJOY! TOM