I think we have finally come to a point in history that all civilizations come to from time to time, where everybody looks around and people wonder…is this the end? With the falling stock prices of the orginizations that are the backbone for large parts of our economy, the middle class all but disappearing, the crumbling health situation, the lying and corruption of the government reaching a pinnacle to the point where the cover ups aren't even very well done anymore, the loss of our freedom to even speak to one another without somebody else listening.
This is a natural place for any long lasting society to eventually come to, it happened in Greece and rome, it happened in china and Russia, and now.. it is really beginning full swing here. The only diffrnece this time around the historical pendulum is nobody seems to care, or notice. Now when I say nobody I mean people as a whole don't seem to care. Given we haven't quite reached the point of revolution yet, but it is getting there, and fast.
This is the time when the young are to turn to the old, to find out about the past. How did you deal with the great depression? What can I do to protect myself? What did you see when Russia and china fell into these same paranoid governments, but people are just continueing on their own lives while the world begins to crumble around them.
Now ill give as much as the next person that it is wholly possible for America to bounce back from these setbacks, and honestly we could continue along our way in 3-4 years putting this time behind us, but more often than not this does not happen. We are not bordering on the "depression" of the 70's where we experienced a bit of a market slowdown.
What amazes me even more is instead of helping the people who need help we continue to push polocies that have led to this crisis. Congress is doing nothing to help people keep their homes, but we will bail out the orginizations whos terrible discions brought us to this point. Were not trying to fix the boat so holes don't form, were just plugging the holes with rags. In the short term this is fine and helps but in the long run those holes are still gonna leak and new ones will form.
And I hate to play chicken little, and I am by no means saying the world will end, or the sky is falling, but im kind of concerned because nobody seems to care at all. Everyone is just continuing on like a horse with blinder galloping towards the ledge. I know everyone needs to live for today, im just sayin please take a look around today, and see what is going on.
I will end my little rant with some lyrics from the Flobots song "No Handlebars", if you haven't seen the video stop by it is powerfull no matter which side of the fence you sit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all healed of their lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
