The consensus on the street is we are screwed. The consensus in Washington more..more.. more wasting lives, wasting money, wasting our Time on Earth. No problem.
Just a few weeks ago at a bar I told this bright dude I was an optimist. He looked at me quizzically. I just believed that we had to go through the '___ hitting the fan' experience and that we would be able to reorganize ourselves after along better lines as we faced the pressures of real survival. He was still skeptical and I cited 4th quarter Joe Montana as well as our few million beautiful children who we love dearly as grounds for optimism and that without optimism we are passing on nothing for their survival and future happiness.
Personally I am barely able to cope and if I was to say this country is hanging on or will be hanging on by a slender thread shortly so am I right now. As my 'alternative medicine' man told me today. You are going to have to fight for survival. I bring up the personal not for sympathy.. (thoughts & prayers welcome though) I am not sure why maybe for historical reference. Can you die from Heart Failure? Of course figuratively and literally it happens all the time. I have to breathe optimism when that seems like it's just an empty lie then I will be dead, maybe your optimism will live on. It's not one man show though I have for some reason never quite figured out this joining together thing, I love people, I love a good time, I don't know, I just end up retreating and now there's not much room at the end of my limb.
Everything I write needs to matter. We need to see that our whole culture our whole society needs to reset. We are not a nation
of Bleep You me first cynical yuppies, boomers, gen x, y or z. We must stand together our businesses must enrich communities not screw them. Right now what goes on on Wall Street and the whole sick contraption of our economy is how to suck up the most money from the Herd on the bottom. That's us. Their wealth is our poverty. Am I whining? Couldn't I have done just about anything well and found a way too make a decent living? Heck I could have been rich! Would I be complaining then, maybe not. Hard to believe that this (My Life) is the way it was 'supposed' to be.
When the world's economy takes the big fall someday when the sum total of bullshit that our country has become is too strong then we will see. That we must feed each other. That the cynical the greedy will move off to the side, sluffed off like an
old clo.. like shedding a bad dream. America will rediscover who we really are and there will be courage and goodness surging through us like a well from the center of the Earth or from Heaven if you will. We still have grounds to be optimists. We always new it was going to be rough many of us never believed we had a chance and therefore it justified all kinds of cynical behaviour. We will survive. Optimism is a tool for survival that we must use. Even if it seems you are a fool.
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