Thread: Perfect Storm

Is it just me and crazy people who think bad things await this country?
I worry about inflation because of the quanitive easing or what ever they call it. I call it printing money to pay your bills. Genius.
I worry about peak oil because experts say there is no more "easy oil", and oil that must be pumped out of the ground is alot more expensive than oil that shoots out of the ground like a gyser.... ps a P90 estimte means there is only a 10% chance that much oil is in that area. The gov reports only p90 stats.
I worry about homegrown terrorists because if I were a terrorist thats how I would do it. Chemical agents released over metro areas from single engine planes.... poison in my McDouble..... and on it goes.

There is more but I don't wanna come across as crazy haha. Has any other generation had so much to worry about? If not then why is there not a focus on educating the people about self reliance, instead the gov wants to get us spending money again to help the economy. We may very well need that money in the bank where it should be. I dont know, sorry to rant. please let me know what you think.

I don't worry about all that stuff. My 7th grade science teacher taught me life is never fair.

He was right.

Shit happens, we deal with the stuff and we learn and we struggle and we just keep on keepin' on.

And then we die.

Not sure what people are expecting from life to be so disappointed or scared or shocked when things aren't easy.

I think the colonists had it tougher, as did the early settlers who moved westward.

Relative to spending and the government wanting us to spend, to me that one is pretty simple. We are a consumer society, we don't make much of anything any more, we just spend and earn and spend and earn. If we all save then we make some of the few major employers we have fail, adding to unemployment and the bottoming out of the economy.

I do have a fear about the future - if we don't stop the wars my sweet little nephews and nieces will be the right age when they start the draft again - they don't need to know war - they shouldn't know war - no one should have to fight in war.

Oh, and welcome to PH.

Originally Posted by Goldwater

Totaly.......

We are experiencing a period of puctuated equilibrium technology wise, but as individuals we aren't much different than the first neolithic farmers. Our brains are about the same size, and I'm guessing we probably percieve about as many icky things in our lives as great things. While the notion that humans that are alive today are exceptional might be comforting, or give you a self esteem bump, I don't seem to feel the need to feel like I'm better or worse than the last 10,000 years worth of homo sapiens. Nature has a way of replacing prosperity with suffering, and visa versa.

Sorry, feeling kind of Buddhist tonight.

We do have a whole lot more information at our fingertips and I don't think our brains have evolved as quickly as technology has evolved. They say we only use 10% of our brain, that worked when we were not inundated with news and data and light and opinions and thoughts and sound.

I mean, don't you think people died of tumors and cancer and disease in the old west we just didn't have a name for what ailed them?

And they say autism has increased over the last 30 years. Have the cases increased or are we just better able to recognize the problem, do we just have a name for the symptoms and behavior and are we more alert and informed?

I used to be on the edge of technology. Now, not so much. I'm finding the sensory overload is not only exhausting, it is unsatisfying and nerve racking. I like making things simpler - others can have the excitement - I've had my share, I'll just sit and watch for now.

Has any other generation had so much to worry about?

I remember we use to have nuclear bomb drills in school. I didn't worry much growing up or now. Does it do any good to worry?

So I am crazy. damn. Thanks for your thoughts. Don't forget to rotate the 50 pounds of freeze-dried corn in yer basement.

What is everybody so worried about. John Boehner is going to give tax cuts to very rich people and this should fix everything because they're going to hire 50 million people by the end of Feburary. Republicans got it under control.

Originally Posted by propertymaintenance

So I am crazy. damn. Thanks for your thoughts. Don't forget to rotate the 50 pounds of freeze-dried corn in yer basement.

Damnit, now I am worried. I don't have 50 pounds of freeze dried corn in my basement. Hell, I don't even have a damn basement.