My estimable mentor in blogging wrote a piece about the disconnect from a society which praises achievement but participates in and/or ignores school children tormenting their bright peers---if you'd really use this term. Such as this person endured back when.

I was listening to the BBC morning news---there---late one night---here---via an NPR affiliate and they had a story about foot operated generators in Indian farming. In America we love to "pat the heads" of the masses in Asia who ride their bicycles, but woe betide the stateside world when more of them go suburban and dip into the remaining petroleum resources with vehicles. This means war! Literally, I am afraid.

In India poor farmers, who suffer high suicide rates related to many failures, are being urged to generate the increasingly used resource of farm electricity from foot pumps, and repeatedly during the story the narrator/interviewer expressed concerns of this being a patronizing attitude. They pointed out, though, the debt incurred from the petrol and by the lessors of internal combustion equipment. Interesting issues to study.

For a long time I've heard grumbling about college professors' "fancy" definitions and I would say one such would concern success: freedom from consequence, in a country where so many, including me, fire up the car for paltry errands, and take it as more elemental than a birth right.

And for reasons we know, I dedicate this post again to my mentor!