CD: I understand, I was saying that I "forget" about what's going on as it's not something that's on my mind.

Hills: It's not such a bad old life .... is it ? Live life on your own terms. Not many can do that. I would say this though ... sometimes what's going on in the outer world presses in. Everything in the world is interconnected in ways that we can barely begin to comprehend.

CD: Thought I would add this. Our world monetary system is getting to be much like on Star Trek.

Hills: It's getting pretty ethereal with all of these newly created trillions of dollars flying around. I was thinking of something Picard said about the federation economy but it was pretty vague. Simply that they had evolved past the need for currency. One would think communism, but it more closely describes a meritocracy.



CD: I realize that the world at large has changed greatly from what the recorded history and human nature understands.


Hills: Human nature has held fairly constant through the ages.