So, am I the only one feeling like I am twirling in a circle and the world around me seems crazy? I see:  lack of oourtesy, the demise of manners. The Golden Rule (Treat Others As You Would Want To Be Treated) seems to be on the verge of extinction - or at least an obsolete reminant of a time (wax nostalgic) where people knew their neighbors and were friendly and there were actually neighborhood businesses rather than violent/sexy billboards, corporations, franchises. Morality and good-will toward humankind existed and was deemed above more important than "the bottom line,"
Yes - this is kvetching (yiddush for complaining) - but what can I do?
I just watched "Corporation" a documentary (2005) and I must say - human beings seem to do a lousy job at regulating themselves - so much for my economics degree - deregulation/free market/supply and demand - the corporations have shifted the power structure in such a way that it is a sisyphian task for The People to shift the balance of powers. Not that it cannot be done - but whew!
Is it too much to ask - that every human being be given access to water, sanitation, sufficient food and safety?
Why is this not the bottom line?
Just rented "Plunder" from the library - I may have more kvetching to do after watching that documentary on the current financial crisis.
Despite my dismay of the current Alfalfa crisis and the current administration's TERRIBLE handling of this specific business - at least he didn't ax the schools today - I hope the current congress will remember that the children are the future and as the current generation strips our future of hope for a viable, healthy environment - may they at least remember to educate them!
Sorry if this rant is too much - had to be done. Remember, I am pregnant and the hormones are coursing - I have a zero bull-s..t tolerance - mode that occurs when preggo hormones kick in.
Actually....let's end on a high note....Breathe....Breathe...Oh yah -
I am open to the possibility - that everyone's eyes open and see beyond the short term gain of a few and unite to heal the planet : our earth's ailments, our humanity's ailments and cooperate - realizing that when you die, you can't take your plundered gains with you, and that each and every one of us is a part of the larger family of humans and that we have a long term interest for humanity's "family" - Amen!