My nickel: we're fucked. Incompetents are running the country, because the system encourages incompetent ass-kissing, yes-men to rise to the top: we get what e voted for. Enjoy.
--Doug On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]>wrote: > Like many of us, I have been reading a wide range of opinions online about > this, and had been looking forward to the discussion here. > > So what's the sense here? > > My nickel: despite the gloom and doom, the prophecies of the final demise > of the middle class, the unbelievable behaviour by the Tea Party folks- > petulant, arrogant and childish behaviour- overall I am heartened by the > necessity that we attempt to think like a global culture in order to resolve > and upgrade how we operate. > Similarly to the weather: we finally have to confront that this is all one > planet, like it or not: there is nowhere else to go. > > Our engagement now with these two situations - global economics, global > weather - I think will be seen as our watershed moment in a couple hundred > years. I am a designated optimist, so there's that. However, the demand > right now that we work together requires accountability from everyone to > everyone, no one left out anymore. We are overdue for this. I wish it > weren't happening while I was around, but I am around. > Keeping the big picture in mind, not yielding to panic, and reminding > people we've been through difficult times before. > > Stronger opinions re China and the US/West's addiction to their cheaply > made merchandise and to consumerism (especially after Sarbajit's comments re > cell phones), and the Tea Party will wait until I see if anyone picks this > thread up. > Yes, I read Tom Friedman. > > Victoria > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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