Rocket scientists working as cleaners and mathematicians as taxi drivers. I was surprised when a New Zealand Minister in July 2003, said they had the most skilled taxi drivers, cooks and cleaners in the world. I would have thought you needed a space program to claim that.

By Jingles, now the politicians have got those Australian educated types painting fences and fixing lawn mower engines. Nothing like de-skilling a massive number of educated people while at the same time claiming there is a skills shortage in this fine country. As for the rest, well low paid labor is always helpful I am told, it helps bring down the wages for the rest of us employed people!

Things like that use to concern me until I watched ‘Yes Minister.' The program was not that entertaining or funny, but it was a source of political inspiration for me!

I suddenly realized that,

politics may occur in a place called parliament.

Politics may appear logical and formal,

however, politics is about emotions,

raw... untethered... wild... emotions.

Having seen screen story creations like the Vulcans and the Borg, I realized that emotions are the difference between mechanical universe running our lives and emotional humans making the universe bend to our needs.

Thank goodness politics has the element of emotions, even if we have to suffer through silly things like rocket scientists sweeping our floors or taxi drivers reciting tensor calculus.

Since politics is about emotions, I have chosen topics that inspire emotions in me.

Writing for a largely unknown audience meant producing more general topics that are relevant for lots of different people. The development of the subjects into this final form came from my own expertise, interests and life experiences.

It is not always easy to complain and then turn around and suggest a solution, but I feel it is the correct thing to do.

In my discussion of ‘Peoples Of The World', for instance, the solution I come up with is not the one I would have liked. I really do wish people that have the ability to travel were able  to choose any place in the world to live.

I feel terrible that what seems to be such a promising science is being pushed as a hard sell objective by large companies.

I mean, we just crossed over the year 2000. If those companies really want to sell us this technology, we need to re-evaluate the monetary system that drives their bull-horns and cigar-handing-out politics.

Now that we seem to have the technology to drive nature itself as if it were an economic system, perhaps it’s time to see what places that steering wheel might be heading our world to!

This is a fascinating subject. I would have liked to have discusses all the futuristic things that may now be a part of every world traveller.

Things like Digital Passports at the desk of your destination before you even leave the airport and pattern recognition cameras in airport arrival lounges that already have enough information to identify you as you arrive. Perhaps I could have even talked about GM Beagles sniffer dogs (although I have herd that GM wasps or GM rats might be used for this purpose). I don't fancy having rats and wasps around my luggage.

Instead I decided to talk a little about my view of the world and the fundamental rule of Chaos-Theory: Refugees have existed in the ancient past and right up to this day. They are not a new phenomenon. Ancient farmers and hunters became refugees on a regular basis as they hunted out all the game and eventually the soil became poor and unable to support the crops they planted.

The question is " if refugees have been around all this time, why has our economy been unable to find a solution to it?" The answer is, "Holding a dollar bill in front of your face does not give you any amount of insight to the workings of the world."

Money is not a model that is designed to give insight into the nature of our world or that the refugee situation has been around for the longest time ever. It is an old and outdated model of a flat world with unlimited resources at the centre of the universe.

I have provided a solution, but I really hope there is a better one as I previously mentioned above.

We also need to realize that as all nations of our world modernize, refugees of today can simply hop on a bus, train, boat or plane and leave, just as we would. We can not continue to send them off to some rock in the sea and ignore them. This problem is not going away; it is the natural cycle of things.

Let us give these new modern refugees the freedom to roam the world to any place they want to!