OT: [TheForge] Re: Marginal Blacksmithing Question

[Andrew Vida]

GHS wrote:
> Once you eliminate the "grass is always greener" factor this discussion 
> gets real quiet.
> 
> The system is broken with a number of factors haywire.
> 
> One is the transition of  medicine from a vocation to a profession.
> Another financing of medical care from personal, to assurance 
> associations, to  insurance companies.
> Another is the change in our expectations.
> 
> We, at least in the baby boom US, do not expect EVER to get old and die. 
> We certainly will never get SICK and die. Medicine can cure all, for a 
> price.

	That's some 20/20 eyeballing you be doing there.  The expectations are 
what has precipitated this quagmire.  This is especially so regarding 
the idiot cosmetic surgery biz.  You get old, you get wrinkles.  Get 
over it.

> Whenever we are set to accept paying anything to obtain the 
> unobtainable, or avoid the unavoidable, we are setting ourselves up to 
> get screwed.

	Well said and dead on.
> 
> With so much of the world still hankering after clean water and toilet 
> facilities that do not involve the surface of the dirt road in front of 
> their homes, I wonder about our focus.

	Focus?  Is that what you call it?  Huh... and here I was confusing it 
with a lapse into terminal madness.  Silly me.