MATURE MEN WITH MONEY

Mature men with money are an interesting social demographic. They even have their own unique marketing acronym...MMWM.

They are in a phase in their lives when they think more profoundly about things that seemed unimportant during other periods of life.

They differ from mature men without money because they are either working but at the sunset of their career or retired. In many cases they have paid off or nearly paid off the big ticket life debts like the mortgage and the education costs of their children.

They are preoccupied with what they've accomplished and what comes next, what they're leaving behind both physically, passed on in their DNA, and morally, what they've passed on of what they've learned and they believe.

It is a passage in life that is psychologically challenging and changes their behaviour in unpredictable ways which the people around them, especially dependents, find difficult.

With death approaching, it is a time when belief becomes more important in the scheme of every day life. Just as the blood and body body carry the gentic code, stored in chromosones and DNA, it stands to reason that belief must be carried along with it. When we move from one place to another,across the street or around the world, we carry our genes, but we also carry our beliefs.

The nihilists among us might suggest we carry our beliefs in the brain, the spiritualists, the soul. So where in the brain and where in us does the soul reside? We know which part of the brain governs memory, but we have yet to find the area that governs belief.

Here we explore many of the beliefs and their influence on our lives because we make important decisions based upon what we believe and therefore it behooves us to understand and nuture those beliefs. In our evolving and revolving universe incidents are never repeated but they can be remembered in a variety of versions.

The Magic Helix is a repository of beliefs that have formed out of memories and experiences, presented to entertain, educate and enlighten.

And you can start enjoying the journey by clicking here .

DON'T WEAR THE HAIRSHIRT....

So the finance minister of Luxembourg opens the door a crack and suggests that if Greece has a government, there might be room to address the concerns of the great swath of voters who question the merits of austerity.  I applaud him.  This is the dialogue of democracy and peaceful evolution.  Austerity isn't working.  It never does.  We humans can make things.  We humans can do things.  We human can go places.  All this activity produces wealth.  All this activity needs hope, belief.  There is no hope and no belief in severe austerity.  Austerity and piety are regressive instincts and most human progress is born of optimism and enthusiasm.  No hairshirts here please.  Let's talk.  Let's adjust.  Let's progress.

Gray Dourman
www.magichelix.com

NOW LET'S SEE IF DEMOCRACY WORKS....

In one of the myriad of European conflicts over history Edward III laid siege to Calais.  The city was ordered to resist at all costs.  Eventually the city was starved into submission and forced to parley for surrender.  Edward agreed not to plunder the city if any six of its top leaders would sacrifice themselves, and walk out, wearing nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city and castle.   Six burghers volunteered, stripped down to their breeches and appeared at the city gates.  They expected to be executed but  they were not.  

This time the Burghers did not walk out.  So, the voters in local elections in the U.K. reject the dogma of austerity, then Greece, then France... now what?  The cabal of bankers, billionaires, Murdochs and elite politicians must admit that the game is up, that the citizens of democratic countries have been sufficiently informed and educated to understand that to pay for the profligacy of an elite class who believe in the cant that they know what is best and how the world works is neither ethical or necessary.  

This is democracy.  Let the people who must pay decide the price.  Now is the time to see who really believes in democracy and who believes in control.