No.0132：Good vibration

November 30,2024

The title is my favourite song by the Beach Boys. I'm not sure of my memory, but I believe the Native Americans valued feeling the air, and there was a good and bad side to it, and the good side is the title phrase. These days, computers, especially AI, have made it relatively easy for information around us to be organised properly. Because of this, I feel that what I feel, in other words VIBRATION, is becoming more and more important. To be more human.
 
Don’t think,feel.
Bruce Lee
 
In the USA, the nation that gave birth to the title phrase, the economy has been booming for a long time now, but many people are frustrated by inflation. Trump, who has made good use of such bad vibration, recently decided to return to the presidency. What will happen to trade, to the economy, to defence, with his MAGA, America First policy? The world is filled with such bad vibrations. Japan is in a similar situation, with inflation making life more difficult. The price of rice is roughly 1.5 times higher than last year. In such a bad vibration, politics to increase income as quickly as possible is very popular.
 
The elite class has not listened to the voices of the public
Parisians who voted for far-right parties in the French National Assembly elections
 
As described above, even in the so-called democracies of the world, bad vibrations are gaining momentum, where people are too self-focussed and have little time to think of others. Democracy leaders have been blaming authoritarian nations, but I can't help but feel that the whole world is slowly moving in that direction. Many things in the world are trade-offs. If you prioritise something, something is lost. I don't trust those who are always promoting the good things. There are negative aspects, but the positives outweigh the negatives, so let's do it. What is the most decent good vibration? I want to judge.
 
If you don't have a steady job, you don't have a steady heart
Mencius
 
The media, particularly the television, directs stories by clarifying things into good and evil, i.e. right and wrong, because staging discontent is the quickest way to generate ratings, and therefore advertising revenue. They are always looking for targets to hit. Politicians are bad, politics is bad, policies are bad.
Certainly, such external things may have some impact on what happens to me. But first of all, it's internal - it's up to me. It is really bad vibration when I hear stories on TV about politicians profiting from dirty money, but that in itself does not make me unhappy. Most of what I am today is solely due to my own choices.
 
ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
 
Politics is bad for the people who elect politicians.
Yukichi Fukuzawa
 
The recent inflation has made my family more conscious of saving money. I'm setting aside times to go to the supermarket for discounted ready meals, I'm getting really enthusiastic about Amazon's Black Friday, and I'm nagging my kids from the top to switch off the lights more often. But last night, when I went out into the garden to have the dog pee, I forgot to turn off the light I'd lit, and my son pointed this out to me. Moments of loss of authority; bad vibration. losing authority is instant, but regaining it is extraordinary. Unless I divert his frustration with dexterous attacks on others.