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There are two questions to ask. Firstly, what is happening in your own country --how bad is it relative to other countries. Secondly, how about you personally? Is it getting you down? We all have 'little lives', jobs, hopes, plans for the future. Then we are also part of a bigger, social world. When you see a news piece about something happening to someone else, a factory closing, or a country defaulting --we usually kind of block this out. Maybe yawn and change the channel. It is not part of out 'little life'. But, nonetheless, it seems like just an endless stream of bad news. It's kind of getting me down.
I remember last year, when the 'downturn' hit, 'they' would come out and say, with smiles on their faces, 'oh we are emerging from it now... we can already see improvements!' But 'they' lied! Again!
So is anyone else here slowly turning away from all of the endless sources of entertainment and escapism, seeing what is really happening to us (the cattle) and starting to feel either dejected, or for the tougher ones --indignant (but cut off, alone and powerless --nonetheless).
I know this is a bummer of a topic. But hey, it's just one thread.
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I remember last year, when the 'downturn' hit, 'they' would come out and say, with smiles on their faces, 'oh we are emerging from it now... we can already see improvements!' But 'they' lied! Again!
So is anyone else here slowly turning away from all of the endless sources of entertainment and escapism, seeing what is really happening to us (the cattle) and starting to feel either dejected, or for the tougher ones --indignant (but cut off, alone and powerless --nonetheless).
I know this is a bummer of a topic. But hey, it's just one thread.
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stances. I can feel the recession every day. And in no way there is light shining at the horizon. So I do not believe in an economic improvement at the moment. But I don’t let it interfere with my mind. I am still the positive guy I used to be. Happiness is a feeling, something between your ears. I accept life as it comes. But I am 64, so worries about a working carrier are not really current. For youngsters things are different. My daughter got recently her academic degree in biology. For her it is difficult to find a decent job. And that is sad. Our society should offer young people prospects. But it doesn’t. I feel ashamed about that, because it is my generation that organized this situation. Greed and money are the main reasons. The generation of my parents was characterized by modesty and social behaviour. Properties, that seems to have disappeared in my generation. An income that equals the income of 50 to 500 normal working people seems to be normal and ethically accepted. A society can not bear that burden. While fossil fuels scarce we travel all over the world for holidays or fun shopping in Rome or New York. We make money with money. Money has become the main target. And mainly “non rooted money”, money that comes from elsewhere. Investors are interested in interest; not in social consequences. When they can earn elsewhere more money, they are gone, leaving you in a destroyed local economic structure.
