I noticed in the news that some naive 'cult' individual suggested that there is "tremendous confusion" in America today.
I've sat for three hours this morning thinking about that suggestion.
It's kinda bothered me.
I'd like to offer three observations:
1. Outside of the beltway, beyond the metropolitan landscape, in roughly 90-percent of the rest of the nation....there's zero confusion.
Things happen, you evaluate your situation, determine your path, and proceed on.
If it were that crazy, you might consult your minister, your local farm product sales-guy, your cousin Larry who does sheet-rock, or your local Bolivian-palm-reader gal who wears a rather lusty open blouse. They'd offer some optimistic view of the situation, and you'd just reset your compass.
2. If things were of some extreme variety of "tremendous confusion", the last people on Earth that you'd consult and feel 'good' from....would be Hollywood personalities, some local meth user, or your crazy aunt who is three steps away from being put into a state nut-house.
3. If you seem to be living every day in terror or confusion, it's been that way for more than a year or two....maybe even going on for ten years or more, then you got a personal issue, that no religion, mental specialist, or TV cult figure can 'heal'. In this case, you might want to dump the TV, cable options, Twitter, and all social media.....retire to some remote Tennessee Valley (Appleton would be my suggestion), and just read Jack London books, listen to Sinatra tunes, and work on Briggs and Stratton lawn mowers.
2 comments:
Thanks for the good advice. I think you're right about the way the 24 hour news stations and the Beltway are reacting to the current situation we face and the way the rest of us "ordinary folk" are handling it. I live in a small suburb of Bethlehem, PA., and everyone seems to know what they can and can't do. The schools, restaurants, bars, etc. are closed but the gas stations, supermarkets, and pharmacies are all open, and of course, the hospitals. Everyone I know is respecting the six feet social distancing and, so far, no new cases in our area. Two have been reported so far. I'm not living in fear, just financial anxiety, and that's no joke.
There are way too many Americans in massive debt situations for this to last more than 30 days. If you ran a hotel, and there's only 3-percent of the rooms occupied, you got problems. If you ran a coffee shop with 400 customers a day previously and only ten now...you got problems. If you ran a theater operation, you got problems. Whether people agree with him or not....Trump's 'game-changer' medication path is the only viable way to exit this and just go to a better scenario. The sooner we all accept that....the better off we will be. And sitting around waiting is unproductive....people need to replace that time with something that keeps them occupied.
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