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While intelligence, counterintelligence and military organisations securitise and deputise, our planet's nominal conditions normalise.

My brain flows with thoughts on which I don't want to dwell.

Cut flower arrangements fade.  Political leaders engage people politically.  People who work "in the home" plan the day's activities, knowing plans change and plans change plans.

As the world economy heals from the recent wounds of a severe downturn, where will "secondary infections" break out?  How do we repair the parts of the world body like Greece without cutting it off to save the patient?

Michael, Larissa and Brittany busy maintaining and repairing a few bodies today.

Out the window, bodies stroll sidewalks or control the direction of motorised transportation devices.

In South America, a few changes about to happen, for the better, encouraged by positive global opinions.

Buildings, streets and traffic signals designed for people, not frogs or birds...

I don't have a single problem with those who choose to lead as long as their perspectives are centered on the benefits of their people more than their costs.

Companies often compute the average cost to hire and then employ a person annually.  Governments produce reports stating the estimated cost to raise a child born in a specific year.  Insurance companies live and die on actuarial tables. [I often remind myself to think about these statistics.]

Can we compare the life of a person to the life of a pigeon?  Does a person, by simply being alive, provide more benefit to society than a house fly?

The clouds above me, nonexistent as they are except as a visible phenomenon of water vapour density, wet people, frogs and pigeons in ratio of body size, not species type.

A recent email from Ashleigh Brilliant asked why our airline security business confiscates and throws away so much material useful in normal daily living?  For instance, why can't a person carry a large jar of peanut butter and jelly and make sandwiches for self and interested others nearby during a long airplane flight?

Four years ago, I walked the streets of Munich during a World Cup match between Germany and Sweden.  My associates and I were amazed to hear what sounded like a million people yelling when the game started and later when Germany scored its two goals in the game.  Four years later, shouts and hornblowing take place in South Africa, the sport still tied to national identity as much as talented personalities, world economic conditions a factor affecting the overall event but not kicking the ball or refereeing the games.

Today, I cannot compute the local/regional/global costs and benefits to place me here, laptop computer on knees, sitting by a hospital window, investment portfolio on autopilot while medical personnel work to return my spouse to a previous nominal state of corporal normality.

Down the hall I saw a sign that read Quality Control, indicating to me a department within the hospital's business hierarchy.  Where's the cost-benefit analysis that compares quality control data to quality of life?

How can I compare the medical needs of the people on this floor to those suffering in Haiti or escaping to Uzbekistan?  Some people and organisations do.  Some people compare our species' needs to the needs of other species.

I want to open the Book of the Future to find out where this line of reasoning will take me but I'm exercising self-control and won't look for a few more days, depending on colleagues to tell me the future they've calculated.