Social Dancing on Oahu

By Fred Kajima, Pupukea

I acknowledge that none of us can get through the day without making a lot of assumptions. In the world we live in, on Oahu, we just accept and go along. All of us have intellectual, ideological and moral commitments that we bring to bear upon what we think about in almost everything. But the availability of information that we can gather has sped up the rush to judgements, a practice further accelerated by the new technologies, the computer and the cellular phone.

"Social dancers believe that an occasional new dance could be included

for interest or variety, it’s a matter of balance."

And the semi-private club syndrome remains in most dance clubs. We have less patience than ever with the often painstaking task of gathering the truth. We are better informed, and yet we seem more efficient than ever in manufacturing conspiracy theories. Somebody in England said what? I am convinced that our dance cliques are quite different from reasoning altogether. Look around folks, there is more to social dancing than that.

"Sweet Someone" by Don Ho

Reasoning is an art they seem to have forgotten. Blogging seems to be the perfect answer for we must think it over carefully and own up to our opinions in a blog. Much different than the clique where no one owns up to anything and there is no responsibility for all their manufactured lies. We may be phasing into a new era for the good of all. And perhaps we will have a chance to get our two cents in again. Let's blog'em.

Another burning question: How to Porcupines make love?

Answer: Very Carefully.