The New American Dream

Whats that I hear about "Sick Worker" malady. Come on people, whats wrong with you guys. There used to be a time when american workforce was famous for its non chalance and its hardwork and now we are as famous for it as idiots in large numbers. French who we tout as lazy bums are actually more productive than us 101% to be exact. I mean this is almost to the point of shameful. We have resorted to teh worst of all things, euphemisms. Oh yeah, we are good at that. We believe that if we give something a name that resembles a disease it will help deal with it better. What if there is no disease, or for that matter its all in your head. Its quite possible actually but rather than that we would take drugs and say that we are dealing with it. Drug companies will make millions and no one will actually think to solve this problem with non-drug solution.
It seems at times that we have just given up, we really don't have anything that we strive for, there was a time when AMerican workmanship was famous in the world, and I am not talking about the early 20's or 30's but as late as the 70's and 80's. Given that it wasn't in all fields, but still there were genuine craftsmanship, now all that is left of that time is the awful mmoaning, and a whole lot of empty drug bottles.

Welcome to the new American dream: Work, take drugs, complain, get wrorkers comp and live happily ever after.

When News is too much

I was watching the ABC news today. I looked at the news anchors and thought to myself, have they ever thought about the consequences of their actions. Flashing people's faces on TV making or breaking their lives. They parade around villains or heroes and this nation of about 25o mil follows their lead in accepting these leading figures in their lives. How big a responsibility and how little thought that goes into it. These news anchors are no better than the villains that they claim are rotting away at the base of this society. I have practically come to hate them. Journalism is dead to me. Nothing seems pure anymore, and all the people have been tainted by this impurity.

The job of a news anchor is so hard if you look at it. The load of honesty, integrity, and more than anything the truth rests upon their shoulders. Few ever come close to even getting the holy grail of the occupation. I think that the slander, bigotry and hate existing in the news of today is a shame to all the journalists.

I agree that not all is bad, but something needs to be done

Cliches

Cliches! I love them. I thought that monotany would kill the thought process, probably the human mind would cease to exist with things that repeat so obviously and so frequently. But to tell you the truth conditions condusive to existence of a unique mind have become almost non existent. These days people, things, atmosphere, and our surrrounding in general are claustrophobic to us. Things are happening so fast that we have problems following them. Take for example the recent disasters. People had hardly time to think about one when the next one would hit. Earthquakes, floods, and storms are things that human mind may digest one at a time, but all put togather you really can't take it. I mean your mind goes through so many situations of doomsday and the helpless situation that you really can't think any more.
Thus the answer, sitcoms. Quick witted, totally reliable in this day and age for jokes. Commercials, another one of those things that will be there no matter what. You can rely on it. Unlike other things that are out of your control, this is one thing that you really can see yourself watching and thinking in your mind that "hey! if I want to change it, I can".
I think its about control. More and more things today are going out of control unlike older times, when there were more things under your control. Now there are mega entities that are so convoluted that you really can't make any sense out of anything. You are really just another number. Don't confuse customer service with caring. Companies are never going to let you get away with good customer service. They want to make money and trust me when I tell you this, there will never be anything even close to customer service from a company. These entities are operating on a capitalistic basis theoratically, but its a monarchy. Actually its a monarchy within many monarchies. Many people treating the organization as thier own territory. In this way you can actually create your own kingdom. Oh well I am digressing and bulling at the same time. Citharsis done.

Faith or Adversity

There have been so many devastations recently around the world that I have started to wonder if my faith alone is enough to carry me through to the next side. Copunded by the very nature of man, which is opportunistic in the most savage of ways, people take advantage of other when they are down on the ground. There are lootings, there are muders and so many other things that are brought out by these disasters.

To me though human beings are a brave set of souls. They seem to recover from the worst. I am sure that the endemics of the past, when they befell the populace were considered the end of the world, but human adversity was storng, and I am sure that most people were carried forward through a very storng push by their faith. You see it doesn't matter what you belive in, a specific religion, if you have faith, you could believe in yourself, and you could believe in the humanity of others.

Latley though it just seems that its been going the other way, people are beginning to lose faith, and I am one of the few who are questioning the very devastations. I know its begging the question because I truly believe that we should give ourselves without question to the wishes and commands to the Lord. But there is tht element of doubt that creeps in your mind and I think it has crept into my mind. I would love to have faith again, you know that kind of faith before your loss of innocence, when you believed that the world was essentially a good place that people still cared, that there was enough good in this earth that could overcome the evil. Pretty much all the euphoric, ideal, and perfect ideas that came to your mind. I wish I could have them again. But the harder I try the harder it becomes. Its like a sandtrap, you know the one mentioned in the movie replacements. When you get into one, you try to struggle, and you go deeper. The only solution is to stop struggling and you will come out, but you don't because its against human instinct to give up, and so you keep struggling knowing that you are going to sink deeper. I effect killing yourself.

I know if I believe blindly I ought not to question but to help and be content with the hand nature has dealt those people, but trust me when I say this that it becomes so hard not to. I guess I try to take the easy way out, instead of stuggling with the truth and finding out on my own.

I hope that I can have more faith, but I know I can't and I keep sinking without any hope of ever coming out.