Where are we?

I’m not sure that the nation in general knows what direction we’re headed, or that we even have a definable goal anymore. Little known stat trackers like the “Hindenburg Omen” can spook the markets, Iran and Russia are hurtling towards Iran having  a functioning nuke reactor, we feel bad for the affected families by the floods in Pakistan, but there’s no seemingly no will to be charitable (that, or there’s just no money left). The media keeps painting a picture of an imminent double dip recession (my humble view is that we haven’t ever gotten out of the first one). It’s  a listless August – the dog days of summer feeling like the calm before yet another approaching storm. I worry that as a society we’re not prepared for whatever may come; we’re too wrapped up in keeping our jobs or watching the latest reality show. We need for several good things to happen to us, events to lighten the mood and remind of us of our humanity, rather than the now regularly occurring divisive politics that dominate the news cycle. I don’t give a damn about the mosque near Ground Zero – live and let live. But we choose sides as we’re instructed to do, and feel that we must. Meanwhile, we keep moving along the road, and I for one can only hope our collective destination means us no harm.

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