Here is an interesting article on an effort by one Daniel Suelo to live without money, living in Moab, Utah. Give it a read: https://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817 Now, my big question is in what good this lifestyle is allowing him to do for others. While there are plenty of things it is good to do without, a person who is completely occupied with subsistence cannot be of much use to others. In response to this, a friend of mine who is acquainted with Daniel wrote the following.

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This isn’t really news, but it is put well and to the point. America has problems with its public education, and it has nothing to do with hard-working under-paid educators. It’s simply a flawed system. Proceed to a well-written opinion.

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This depiction of the cherubim and flaming sword that were set to guard the Tree of Life struck me as particularly beautiful and compelling. I hadn’t heard before of the artist, J. Kirk Richards. Here is a good interview of him. https://www.meridianmagazine.com/arts/050613richards.html

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While price-gougers are universally demonized, is it possible that their actions are results of the benevolent “invisible hand” of Adam Smith? Consider the following from: https://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2005/09/07/in\_praise\_of\_price\_gouging?page=full&comments=true Politicians and the media are furious about price increases in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. They want gas stations and water sellers punished. If you want to score points cracking down on mean, greedy profiteers, pushing anti-“gouging” rules is a very good thing. But if you’re one of the people the law “protects” from “price gouging,” you won’t fare as well.

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As quoted in Principles of Economics (Mankiw), from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776): “Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.

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We of the age-group now going to college have been dubbed by onlookers “Generation Y.” We experience an unparalleled degree of global communication. The Internet has entered almost every community of the world and can feature input from anyone who can use a mouse and keyboard. One of the newest breakthroughs in communications is called Web 2.0, a blanket term for the web applications that let users instantly print to the internet.

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Breaking the Teladdiction Popular innovations are quickly blamed for next-generation problems. They always have been; Rock & Roll, Hollywood, and Internet have each borne the eye of suspicion. Amidst ill-trusted kin both before and after, the discussion about television continues unabated. TV, America’s favorite babysitter, has been blamed for crimes of every genre she depicts. The fact that television’s in-house influence has yet to wane demonstrates that few people, even the many responsible parents, are buying in to the scare; is this complacence well founded or are we missing the problem?

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