Discuss: Elegy for a Toxic Logic
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One of my friends lost all her retirement funds in the recent collapse and her plans to take a permanent and well-earned break after decades of teaching young children are now in ruins.
This doesn’t feel like opportunity.
On the other hand, I have noticed people spending a lot less
on “non-essentials”, traveling less, and learning how to do some things for themselves rather than hiring an expert, etc.
So maybe what’s happening is, as usual, more complex than anybody would prefer and can’t be summed up in a phrase?
What goes with impermanence is a flexible heart, an open mind, regarding the essence or true value of anything, including this economic crisis, however it looks today.
One more thing. The genuine and lasting results of Obama’s efforts have to be discovered along the way. I say let’s stay calm as we can and give the man at least a couple of years ...meantime, who can say they haven’t blundered several times a day, each and every day??
I know I certainly have!
Of course, while we’re staying calm, we can also be very actively promoting and supporting and repairing and creating…
politic rigidity and its poor ability to change are simply the law of nature.
It is a simple inertia. Something that is stable, will reluctant to move
One of my friends lost all her retirement funds in the recent collapse and her plans to take a permanent and well-earned break after decades of teaching young children are now in ruins.
This doesn’t feel like opportunity.
On the other hand, I have noticed people spending a lot less
on “non-essentials”, traveling less, and learning how to do some things for themselves rather than hiring an expert, etc.
So maybe what’s happening is, as usual, more complex than anybody would prefer and can’t be summed up in a phrase?
What goes with impermanence is a flexible heart, an open mind, regarding the essence or true value of anything, including this economic crisis, however it looks today.
One more thing. The genuine and lasting results of Obama’s efforts have to be discovered along the way. I say let’s stay calm as we can and give the man at least a couple of years ...meantime, who can say they haven’t blundered several times a day, each and every day??
I know I certainly have!