"No Wind"
The windless stock market has a scary stillness for there is barely enough breeze to even cause a small ripple in the sails. Dotted across this glassy market are all the different colored sails drawn high with crews standing-by ready to jump into action. Times are tense thus begetting stress laced with opportunist thoughts of mutiny.
Echoing across cyberspace, you can hear the cries of the mutineers as they cast blame on the still remembered due diligence and plan. As with most unfavorable times, the once harmonious crews now have to endure the imaginary play of endless free interpretations and ambiguity. Typically, these mutineers are the ones that have not spent one hour of research, analyzing or even have made one speck of preparation. Heck, they rarely can even state why they are aboard the ship. All they know is the captain and the officers of the ship are to blame for "No Wind."
What was once tolerable and acceptable during windy times has become a mutinous campaign bellowing total frustration. What was once nothing more than whining by the unscrupulous types has gained ground with their continual protests and "No Wind." The obnoxious reasoning for the lack of wind is because of the captain and officers, a human element should some how corrected the fact of "No Wind." Thus the cries of broken promises for money and favorable windy conditions recruit others frustrated by patience. But what broken promises for they are on board a ship that has done everything right but there is just "No Wind."
My father once told me, "Son, there are going to be times where you can have the best plan, the best sail boat money can buy, the best crew with all the knowledge, strength and endurance to win. But remember this one small element, if there is “No Wind” … you are dead in the water." -- William D. Swancey
In the distance you can hear their mutinous powerful words laced with anger, stress and strife. Negativity flows rapidly to recruit the numbers to blame someone for "No Wind." Supported by the self-touting credibility of pride on their right to voice concerns of fair play and repugnance of injustice, their banner is clear, "“There is 'No Wind,' never has been and never will be." Even keelhauling is to good for these rogues who did not plan for the condition of "No Wind."
Typically, at the end of the day the mutineers are branded the rogues and scoundrels they are, where the captains and officers emerge as men of integrity who responded appropriately to events as they unfolded.
In the world today, especially with the Internet as the manipulative media vessel, you can clearly see the deception of words that go against every bit of common sense that one should have within their capabilities. But the mutineers are will always be here to test the limits of human indulgence. However, there is a famous quote by an unknow author that states, "As with any new venture it will always go through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing."
:=) Gary Swancey
