THE MY MIND MADE MACHINE:

You know I think the best way to start this would be to reminiscence on the past. I guest Gladys Knight and the Pips did it best with the words of this song called,
"The Way We Were". www.youtube.com/jasalfa

Hey you know everybody's talkin' about the good old days
Everybody the good old days
Well, let's talk about the good old days
Come to think about it
As bad as we try to remember
The kind of September
When life was slow and oh so mellow
Try to remember
Than follow
why does it always seem the past is better
We look back and think
The winter were warmer
The grass was greener
The skies were bluer
The smiles were brighter
Can it be the it was all so simple than
Or has time rewritten every line
And if we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me
Would we?
Could we?

Memories like the corners of my mind
Memories
misty watercolor memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were

Oh can it be that it all so simple than
Or has time rewritten every line
And if we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me
Would we?
Could we?
Memories may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter we'll remember
We'll remember
Whenever we remember
The Way We Were...

The My Mind Made Machine

Now after hearing or should I say reading the lyrics to that song don't it just make you think of "The Way We Were", back in the days.When things was simple, cars would just get be bent and now they disintergrate,the bumpers fall off and the airbag explode and it can't be reset so the car becomes totaled.Cars than you could drive.Today the automobile is a mind made machine.What use to be optional now comes standard on most automobiles rather you want it or not. Back in the day cars was transportation,today it's a whole new driving experience.It's like getting into the cockpit of an airplane.You got your bluetooth,that's your communication to the towers,ON Star gives you clearance, and a navigational system like you don't know where you are going and can't read signs.Antilock breaks,on board computer system,DVD players,satellite TV/Radio and the list just keep going on.Hell look at the Lexus it even parks itself.And the list keeps on climbing.And it's all standard including that standard sticker price.You might as well go ahead and move in ,you don't need a house.Where would you find the money for that and a home.Where the devil do you work,at The Mint.Cause you got to be making money to afford all of that.Back in the day powersteering, powerbreaks,automatic windows/seats/doorlocks, air conditioning even radoi was optional and that was AM radio.You would pay for what you wanted or could afford.Not today everything is standard.It comes on the car want it or not it's yours and they make the price sound like it's not much when they use the word "Only".Only what? Only if you got it. Only half of what you would pay for a home and some are as high as the price of a home.And this is what gets me,five years warranty or a hundred thousands miles.For the money they should be a life time warranty.because each year it's depreciating.What you paid for it last year ain't worth it this year.We spend so much money in these mind made machine just to get from point A to point B and maybe we may slide around a corner to reach point C.Today's cars you don't need a driver's licence you need a motor vehicle navigational degree.Than you have people that try to buy these marvelous machines and are on foodstamps and renting a house.It's bad when your car is worth more that the house you live in.It's sad,but everybody wants to have some of the good things in life. And you think to yourself, "What a wonderful world".But that was back in the day.We are living in this world with our eyes closed, our ears shut and our minds clogged from the poison that we put into ourselves.We are excepting everything they put out and no one has a say about it.That is communist.Why do we pay more for things that they make complicated and it's going to do the same job? When you want to watch TV you just want to hit a button and it's on. Now when you get a TV you got to program it just to get local channels.And to read the instruction book it's like a foreign language ,you can't understand a thing it's says and you have so much to read just to work the remote.Some people are still trying to figure out how to set the clock on there VCR.And never learns how to preset program to record. Just saying that is confusing.And I think to myself,"What a Wonderful World". Andy Ronney might have said, You'd think somebody would have made something Simple.