I gave this entry a quick initial glance yesterday. A closer reading this morning made the following dialogue in a science fiction novel I’m currently reading seem quite apt – “I find it interesting that we all spend so much time letting the past influence the present, when it no longer exists. We all let our personal World Before rule the world that is.”

Ultimately one’s reality is how we approach and react to or pre-empt reacting to the physical plane we inhabit and the information we allow ouselves to absorb, often quite unquestioningly.

While the Australian Mainstream Media screams about the “Pig Flu Crisis” and the unthinking media consumers make their reality one of panic, the cold hard facts are that the confirmed infection number of 1211 (as at the time of this comment) represents 0.00555% of the Australian Population. The symptoms are milder than other strains of the flu (which by the way accounts for 2500 – 3500 deaths each year in Australia – where’s the panic and outcry about this figure) – always maintain a healthy level of skepticism.

Cheers,

Ben