You Create Something like Inward Singing!

Lately, I’ve heard a lot of negative sentiment about the U.S. presidential election. Whether it’s that John McCain is a flip floppin’ George Bush III, or that Barack Obama is a sketchy muslim, I’m just kind of sick of all the nay saying. I feel like the consensus is this: America is screwed, so it doesn’t matter who the next president is. Oil prices, the war in Iraq, the moral decline of society, the economy as a whole, what have you…

Every generation has its huge issues to conquer. What am I missing here? An old lady I was working for yesterday said, “You don’t understand, because you haven’t lived through the wars and times that I’ve lived through.” I told her that the key words there were: “lived through.” She’s seen some crazy bad times, and she’s seen us always come through? I get this feeling from people that acknowledging the severity of the issues at hand is, for whatever reason, as far as they can go. It’s like, “We’re all F’ed!... What should we eat for lunch?”

If it’s true that we better start growing our own food or investing in solar panels, then why aren’t we? It is literally, not the end of the world! We can look back at something like Apollo 13 and see that those astronauts should not have made it home and it was probably the worst predicament astronauts have ever been in. However, at the time, the people who knew the facts down in mission control didn’t throw their hands up in the air and say, “Well shit, we better call these men’s families in here so they can talk to them one last time, because it’s not lookin’ good.”

I feel like the people of America are being that annoying guy on a team that thinks his sole purpose is to bash every idea proposed and yet, never come up with any alternatives. Sometimes our society seems paralyzed. Pretty soon, the future is going to be the present and the sky is not going to turn black while “the whores come out.” (Our president may, however…) I guess all I’m asking is, please don’t be THAT guy.