Insidious Adaptation

The re-release of Mario Kart for cell phones, proves that 2018 is the year for change. Finally, after all these years, all the changes for "good," along with all the broken promises and heartache, we have achieved the pinnacle of coming together. Yes we can. Yes we did. And yes, America is great Again! All of this knowing full well that Mario Kart is a Nintendo game and thus Japanese technology supported. But who cares right, this is America, we can claim it if we want. After all, I bet that we had some Americans on the team, or at least supporting the project. We probably had some person telling the team to make Peach sexier, make Toad gay, and make Luigi actually Louise, therefore all political correctness can be displayed and therefore avoidance of any potential lawsuit having Nintendo paying millions for, "the next big scandal." Maybe Bowser could be Indian, Yoshi could be black, and Mario himself, the star of the show, could be a Jewish plumber. There we ...

No, not in a sleigh or while celebrating anything, but simply laughing, and being merry all year round. It’s as a cliché as it gets, but you can really identify and live in the merriment throughout life, not just at the holidays. This does not make you better, but it allows things to be better, because there is a reason to do good work, outside of self when the environment is positive and supportive. By choosing to see the, "bad" or "negative," suppressing merriment, then it can be difficult to perform outside of self. Hostility promotes competition and survival is all that can be achieved. Survival at work, survival in relationships, social survival, survival of environment, being a part of, or choosing to see hostility therefore has no room for merriment, not to mention any organic laughter.  What can be the most difficult part of hostility is not merely the negativity, but as previously mentioned, the threat of it all. The idea that a person is unsafe, thus ...