Junk

In many ways the news cycle has slowed down.

This past week Bernie Maydoff was sent to prison for what will likely be the rest of his life for the largest Ponzi scheme in history.  As my good friend Doug has noted “leveraging down is hell…”  What’s so interesting is his smoke and mirrors game was going on for decades.

Let’s not miss this story, that fraud and abuse could be responsible for for a substantial percent of the increases in medicare.

NASA had to rush the crew of the Space Station into the escape pod while a wayward piece of our space garbage spiraled by dangerously close. Audio here.  Again, the problem of our space junk has been mounting for…decades.

So today’s end note, thinking of the news from an archetypal perspective, is simple: while its often the case that current events often present the face of a scary dragon, the body of the beast extends back in time decades, and if we can really open our eyes, centuries.  What collective attitude would make it acceptable to act in such a way to litter our inner space orbiting zone with 100000 pieces of space junk.  Granted, much of it is due to accidents, but not all of it.  I’d point out that our sense that we dump what ever is not useful and run to the next thing, collectively, like a child that does not know how to put his or her toys away after playing.