Being unemployed, I have more time to read and to think and to watch the world go by on TV.  In my own personal life and at the highest levels of global life (whatever that is) I can see, feel, and get real depressed about the money.  To make my life just that much more delightful, one of the many books I am currently working through is Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson which can be summed up in his proposition that whenever we think short term, we screw everything up.  Hmmm, I think we are screwing everything up.

It seems like we have run after a lot of misguided or unguided goals in the last fifty years (sorry, we here refers to people on the planet) trying to solve problems without changing what we have been doing to cause the problems.  I am not going too green here, but the green problems are only a small slice of the short sighted giddiness that has gotten us in so many issues.  And it feels much like we are plodding about now in real goo goo, or caramel, or some such sticky substance.  The mucking sound of our feet is particularly noisy in places such as Ireland, Greece, etc., but there is muck in the best of places, even in the U.S.  Again, I am not just speaking economically here, but the total package.  The whole shebang is stinky.

But what to do?  Can’t answer that with any confident or immediate responses.  A generations deep lapse in memory has gotten us all in a bad place.  We just can’t remember what our parents had already had forgotten to them by their parents.  We have lost community in trying to all become one global community.  We have lost morals by dismissing everything that is behind the notion of right and wrong.  We have the need to return to a place none of us have ever been, the place where we live in a sustainable, humble, real, manner that admits who we are and Who made us.

If there is a possible means of returning and remembering, I think it would have to include leadership from our own nation.  Thus I think I can move to post “B.”