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The World and Good Turkey

 Hello. C J here. It’s Canadian Thanksgiving and I hope everyone celebrating this weekend has a good time. I know holidays can be a bit much. Anyway, I got thinking and I thought I’d restate one of my rules for running this blog. I don’t do politics. I do food, art and games. I write novels about food, art and games. That’s it. I don’t drive at present and I don’t discuss world events outside my sphere of activity.

This does not mean I am not aware of the events going on in the world. Me and my family stay up to date on every happening large or small on this planet. I know everything in real time and have two or three news sites I read five to six times a day. I’m up on it all and I don’t bring it up. Why? Because I’m already trying hard enough to improve human life. A winding discussion about a popular news topic isn’t going to add to that.

In my strongly well researched opinion there are two things that can actually make a meaningful and permanent impact on a human life. One is knowledge. I’ve got the style and process of presenting knowledge here down to a system. I share ideas. This is my job. An idea once taken and used stays that way. I’ll give an example. I don’t like red meat. It upsets my stomach. I’m always low in iron. I learned a while ago that dark chocolate and breakfast cereal contain tons of iron. I’m eating more of those and now I sleep and wake up easier. That’s knowledge learned and life altered for the better.

Two is money. I’ve always bought Canadian. This wasn’t always for altruistic reasons either. Canadian goods are cheaper, better and easier on the environment. Money is power in a countable form and I want that power to stay near me so it’s reinvested in things like better roads and more public events in the region of Canada I live in. It’s better for the world because less fuel was used in getting the product to me so the climate will be nicer for my birthday. Now everyone is buying Canadian. I did it to save money.

I probably seem like all benevolent and stuff running this blog. I’m Scottish. We’re petty money hoarding maniacal idiots.

Happy turkey day.

C J Mcpherson


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