If anyone wished to know what the baby-boomer generation would do when, in its full maturity, it hit its first self-created, big-time recession, I think we are seeing the hysterical results. After two decades of unprecedented economic growth, rampant consumer spending, and unimaginable borrowing to satisfy our insatiable appetites, we are suddenly going into even larger debt and printing trillions of dollars in paper money to ensure that someone else after we are gone pays the debt. As if the permanent solution to a financial panic and years of spending wealth we didn’t create were a government take-over of the economy in the manner we currently witness in Spain, Italy, and Greece—or the high-tax, high-spend ethos of a bankrupt California.
The reaction to the economic panic was sort of analogous to the call to ‘charge it!’ after 9/11 (cf. Ike’s fights about the surtax to pay for Korea), or to the Iraq 2006 upsurge in violence, when suddenly our leaders declared the war lost, blamed the nebulous “they” for tricking them into voting for the war, and calling for immediate withdrawals and retreats. Ditto the Stalag-Gulag Guantanamo that, by January 19, had ruined the Constitution, shredded the Bill of Rights, and forever tarnished our reputation. Yet, on the 20th, it was suddenly complex and problematic, and required a “task force” to do a year-long inquiry into the bad and worse choices confronting us. At some point in all this serial hysteria, we are beginning to see the problem is not in the stars of the economy or of the war, but in ourselves—a weird generation that, when it finally came of age, proved to be just about what we could expect of it from what we saw in its youth.
This is incredible. You are overly critical about others who are actually doing something to effect society and instead simply writing about it as though your opinion will move mountains. I have news for you, you have zero comments on the frontpage of your blog (as much of it as I could bother reading, anyway) so no one really gives a damn what you have to say. And it's no surprise either.
To be honest, the only reason I became interesting in finding your writing was because of an article you wrote being completely condescending to people who play video games. You even mentioned in the article that many prominent people of all ages happen to enjoy playing video games. Maybe it isn't a universal and the whole world isn't full of people who do nothing but piss and moan and come up with no real solution to our problems but instead prefer to take action. And maybe those individuals often take action in their own lives to fill it with things that interest them. These are some things to think about before you go making conclusions that are both petty and grand at the same time.
You have a solution to these problems you whine about. It is apparent you must in how condescendingly you have written off the solutions that are being embarked upon. You probably don't even understand how this government debt is welcomed by other countries because of their economic reliance upon our industry. Sure, nothing is perfect, but until I see something substantial from you in terms of proper conduct when dealing with these issues I would much prefer that you discontinue your tirade against your fellow man (and no I won't be PC about it, I'm going to use the term fellow man at this point out of spite).
Keep on doing your thing and supporting a woman who ran for president and didn't have a remedial understanding of the economic/political global climate. Maybe this hopelessness you are projecting upon the world around you is simply something inside of you that you need to deal with. If that's the case, I wish you luck. If not, at least try to start looking for the good in others and the world because someday you will be relying on them for survival. I sure as hell wouldn't put my family in your life raft.
I'm not going to proofread this garbage because I don't have the time. You come off as someone who would criticize my grammar and if this was going to be read by anyone other than you then maybe I would care. But at this point, yeah, whatever.