Conrad Memories from the Future

A Common Enemy Fear is an incompetent teacher. Jean Luc Picard A friend of 45 years from the old country (Kansas) and I talk on the phone once a week.  We share experiences that I share with no one else and that allows us to share ideas that neither of us present anywhere else.  One of these ideas was that the sad state of humanity requires some kind of unifying force, something to bring us together in common cause.  Since people seem impervious to just working together simply because it is the best way to enhance and preserve life, a common threat with so little subtlety that even the dense would recognize it seems like the only chance.  We have kidded over the years that the only thing we could think of that humanity would recognize as enough common threat, as a common enemy, would be an invasion of aliens from outer space! As proof of this need for obvious extremity, consider our current pandemic.  There is no one reading this, regardless of where you sit on the globe,

A Blog Born in Crisis As I initiate this blog, it is a time of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic.  The challenge of containment is shared by all nations and any challenge shared - and recognized - by all nations is an opportunity for growth for humanity. May this blog show the proper gravitas leavened by self-deprecating humor as humanity moves forward.  Only we can determine which probable future we will actualize.  Perhaps it will allow us to seriously and effectively approach even bigger global concerns like human affected climate change! I personally think we will emerge the better for it as people … and hopefully me as a blogger, too!