The More There Is, The More We Do...

Isn't it eerie how the more of something we have, the less we know?

There is more information published and available and there are more preventive options provided than ever to prevent teenage and inappropriate pregnancies in general but it still does not appear that this dilemma has been solved.

Meteorological technical equipment is incredibly advanced and there appears to be a plethora of it however it has not guaranteed any level of forecasting accuracy. You can't fool Mother Nature!

There are a tremendous number of financial advice resources and tools available to help us make sure we are making the right investment decisions and planning for that ever elusive concept, retirement. Still, most people are not saving sufficiently for significant life events, retirement being just one.

There are more medical advances now than ever before but what percentage of the world's population still dies at a young age of very basic disease, for that matter, how many in the United States still die of pneumonia, for example Jim Henson, Marlon Brando's son, etc.

There is more general information available through a myriad of sources to ensure US citizens make informed voting decisions yet Bush somehow absconded with the White House for two miserable terms in a row.


There are new US troop casualties reported on a daily basis and the Mideast is in more of an uproar/upheaval than in decades if not centuries, but we continue to throw more American lives at it. Clearly we have only made the situation there much worse with our unplanned, unwarranted and obviously purposeless occupation.

All students in the US are required to go through driver's ed in order to obtain their driver's license these days. Unless it has changed significantly since my day, these sessions go into graphic detail demonstrating what fatal events can happen when you make the wrong choices. So what continues to be the #1 cause of death for teenagers?*

*Did you know that no one drives drunk in Denmark, and I mean no one. It simply isn't done. What better way to get teens to avoid something than to make it unpopular?

Supersize Me says it all but I'll bet you continue to see long lines of cars at every McDonalds drive-in. And how many of those calories and grams of fat are being consumed by kids who are either already or on their way to being overweight?

I saw some advertisement the other day where someone stormed into the house and gave the kids citations for sitting in front of the tv or the computer on a beautiful, sunny day. What a great idea!

So what is the purpose of this diatribe? While I was heating up my soy chai this morning, I found myself asking why all these things are what they are. My epiphany was that we have information or data overload. We need to find a way to provide information with "point of need" timing. What does that mean?

Some examples:

• Well, the young couple sees some kind of a holographic image portraying them as miserable, poor teenage parents before they go out.
• Something similar could display before anyone who has been drinking starts the car.
• Perhaps if the American public had seen their own kids as war casualties in one of these images prior to voting or what super colossal national would mean to them personally it would have changed the election results.

This could certainly be effective in portraying their personal obesity to these kids and adults and how it would adversely impact their life.



Anyway, it felt good to get that down on "paper".