NOTHING PARTICULAR
While pursuing the election forums and blogs, I have not had time to do anything with my own for a few days. That will be the status until I find something worthwhile to write about. There is nothing particular that I feel right now, except disappointment. No shock, no recrimination, no wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Our country will survive. Mutt is right about that. Americans are resilient. And in the long term, we will survive as a nation and rise above the bitterness that many are feeling right now. This is no epiphany for me. I have always felt this way. Sure, American is for a rough ride. But we were in for a rough ride, anyway.
America will rise above the current mess and be a better land. Someday. Not soon. But I cannot be a conservative without being an optimist, too. Severe depression is ahead, at the very least. The country cannot live on these massive borrowings forever. We will not all like the remedies we are going to get. That is life. I didn't want to leave that nice warm place in order to be born, either. But you have to get on with life.
I will never give up my right to criticize. Nor praise. Nor give thanks to my God that I live in a country where I can do so and not be jailed or killed for expressing my criticism or praise.
But for today, I have nothing particular to say.
Our country will survive. Mutt is right about that. Americans are resilient. And in the long term, we will survive as a nation and rise above the bitterness that many are feeling right now. This is no epiphany for me. I have always felt this way. Sure, American is for a rough ride. But we were in for a rough ride, anyway.
America will rise above the current mess and be a better land. Someday. Not soon. But I cannot be a conservative without being an optimist, too. Severe depression is ahead, at the very least. The country cannot live on these massive borrowings forever. We will not all like the remedies we are going to get. That is life. I didn't want to leave that nice warm place in order to be born, either. But you have to get on with life.
I will never give up my right to criticize. Nor praise. Nor give thanks to my God that I live in a country where I can do so and not be jailed or killed for expressing my criticism or praise.
But for today, I have nothing particular to say.
posted by tanstaafl | 4:08 PM
2 Comments:
Where little sister lives, there have been a lot of layoffs and cutbacks. Big sister talked like those were coming her way, too. Tonight I was talking to a family member who was informed of a local plant shutting down for three months--which will have a serious affect on their family.
I think we are closer to seeing an answer to that question: how will our generations handle what our parents and grandparents handled when already not accustomed to having as much as we take for granted every day now? In other words, how are we gonna stack up to the greatest generation? What do you think?
I am not so sure it was the greatest generation. Everyone is prone to nostalgia and the boomers have grabbed on to this misnomer to characterize their parents. But I lived with my parents and a lot of other parents of that generation and I must say that there were, comparatively, just as many drunks, dopers, venial and cruel people among that generation as there are now. We just didn't revere them then as they are now. A major shift has occurred in the value systems of Americans after the "me" generation of the 1970's.
Be that as it may, we will still survive the upcoming recession/depression and will still maintain our religious values, such as they are, and emerge as a stronger people albeit with a weaker country internationally. That last will be cured by stronger leaders than we now have in this country.
I am an optimist. But not a starry-eyed one. We will have major difficulties. We will go through our own personal wringers and each survivor will know the other survivors have come through the same trial by fire, just as my parents did. It was nothing they talked much about, but the set of the jib and the ability to make correct decisions were the result.
And the honesty to stand up to another and tell him or her that they were wrong and that they needed to reset their way of perceiving and doing. Few were able to withstand that scrutiny without changing.
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