The weight of life

As random events blink on and off howdtside our purview of control, we the people need some simple mechanical measurements to tell us that we in fact are moving in the right direction. I like to track different things, and i happen to have a lot of weight meaurement devices around the farm. Since it is spring and things like to grow - perhaps i will meaure little things, like the growth of a random leaf on a single tree or the weight of mail in the mailbox.

The latter seems to be increasing excessively, as businesses have taken to marketing by direct mail. Moreso, there seems to be thousands of organizations that wish my money to support their causes. If once in the past, i thought that i wished to encourage their endeavor, then now i can't seem to get off their mailing list and most of it gets tossed unopened. If i weight the mail in different categories, it might tell us more about who is chasing the average joe's wallet. Cause if i'm on the list, you can bet a lot more people are too. Of course, junk mail is not quite like spam - it costs postage to keep howdt the riff-raff.

Information comes in all different forms and it is a matter of how you assess the value and apply the effort. Contributing monetarily is a philosophy that helps people assuage their guilt while continuing to appreciate other people that work on the social issues, while we all work to support families. But what are the supports in the structure of the system? How much of what we do is to support the structure of what we do, rather than be useful toward what we wish to do. And how do we develop ideas of what we wish to do, and act on them, if we are constantly chasing the decaying support structure? These are community issues questions - time to develop consensus answers about where and what and when and how and why - that work on an indivual basis.

Why? That is the pertinent question. Why? Why are we trying to keep a myth going as thought we could fix it rather than trying to move ahead toward the next stage of civil society? Or is civil society just another oxymoron?