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Do you ever find yourself not sufficiently astounded?  Or even worse, not even noticing you’re not sufficiently astounded??  It’s amazing–I was skiing from one field to the next, and looked up, and boom, thought “wow, this is beautiful! Is just standing here looking at it ENOUGH??”  I guess that’s how all the high-rises got on Waikiki Beach–the Hawaiians appreciate their land by looking at it, and going surfing in the ocean to look back onto the beach. So, American construction companies thought “no one’s appreciating this beach, so I’ll build a high-rise on it, and then MORE people will appreciate it, and proof of that will be how much money they will pay to come look at it, and stay in my hotel”.  Then, another construction company saw how many more people were now looking at Waikiki Beach, and paying for the beautiful view–as proof that they were appreciating it, so that construction co. built a high-rise hotel, and people paid more money to stay at that one because that one was taller and more luxurious. But, then a third construction co. saw that people behind those tall buildings could not see the ocean, so he built a taller building behind both of those two, so that EVEN MORE people could enjoy the view from pretty far away!  Then, a restaurant company thought “more people could enjoy the view if they could EAT while enjoying the view”, so they built a restaurant, and people came and paid a lot of money to eat while they enjoyed the view. Of course, that didn’t have enough room for everyone to eat and enjoy the view, so restaurants kept being built, the construction companies said so that “more people can enjoy the Hawaiian scenery”.  Pretty soon, no native Hawaiian could afford to enjoy their view–and they had to go inland and sit on the rivers to enjoy the water.  Now,  if you go to Hawaii, you can see people in the house watching t.v., because they are Not Sufficiently Astounded.

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