the big blue

for those having withdrawal symptoms from the non updating of the mbb, my apologies. what with first quarter endings, travel down under, melting polar caps and low level war ( not to mention cartoons and da vinci codes), the zest for blogging has somewhat waned. the blues it seems are now global, not merely particular to this site and the blurring of differentiation has taken the edge off your olde scribe. what's with the world we live in?

it is said that at any point in time the issues that faced the globe were as critical as at any other point. it only varied in scale and impact. it is also said that it has never been a better time to be alive than right now. However, this cliche too could be applied to any point in time, no? the issues that face us are now more wide spread in effect and many are global. so, the war in sri lanka engulfs the entire nation and obliquely other nations like india ( not forgetting the norwegians), global warming and america's war on iraq ( not forgetting religious righteousness) effects the entire world.

one effect of globalization is the butterfly effect i.e. the concept that a butterfly beating it's wings deep inside a tropical rain forest in the amazon causes a chain of events resulting in a typhoon in taiwan. and yet, more than 400 years ago john donne wrote

"no man is an island, entire of itself;

everyman is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."