Half Empty? Half Full? WTF?

How are things in America today? It depends on how you look at it. Is the glass half empty or half full? That's the wrong question. In fact, it's a question posed by spoiled kids. Let's be happy we have water in the glass. There is no cosmic guarantee, no divine water tap that we may draw from if the glass goes empty. I laugh at the idea that we are bullies and cowards because our troops fight with the advantage of technology both hard and soft. We started off just like everybody else. We have no sanction from Heaven, no divine guidance to create new technologies simply because we are Americans.

The only thing that matters is the amount of water we have in our glass. My favorite zen parable: Two glasses sit on a table. From the standpoint of their function as glasses, it matter not whether one is larger or smaller but that both are full. Let's worry about filling our individual glasses. That way the perspective question is a non-issue.