Good thing then, you’ve taken us beyond the obvious. Your advice is sound, it works for anyone, anywhere, anytime, regardless of party afilliation – a truer test of wisdom has yet to be found…

And yet, I wish you had continued the line of thought further. Why aren’t such thoughts obvious? Is it because they’re hard to fit into a simple narrative, in a time where every thing we do seems part of an overall storyline? Have we as a species lost touch with the world around us?

More important, how do we restore these fundamentals of good planning? Can they be tied to government assistance? Should this be quietly handled in the schools?

I’m fairly certain there’s an entire world I’m not seeing here…so, in the interest of saying anything at all, I turn my essay over to you, mistakes and all.

With any luck, my mind caught up to my fingers this time.

Sometimes you need to admit that what you used to do, the thing that failed to work, was the wrong thing to do in the first place. However, often human pride and laziness will get in the way of actually getting to a solution when you get spoiled by the roadblock that causes the problem to begin with.