A Week of Strange Hope
I’m in a weird state of mind about the way things are going.
My conventional rose-coloured glasses wants to believe that the economic bailout will actually make a difference. I’m not basing this hope on anything rational, but there IS something to the power of positive collective thought.
All the people whose opinions I really respect were very anti-bailout, and my rational mind knows that we’re turning over unprecedented amount of power to an executive branch that’s already out of control. Is this just a precursor to the beginning of the end of the world as we know it, or is the real thing this time?
But can I explain this to my students? They’re all young and full of hope. It’s tough when they look at me like Cindy Lou Who and ask if we’re going to have another great depression. What do I tell them? Yes, and this one’s gonna be worse?
Should I tell a little white lie like we’re supposed to tell when the kids ask if Santa is real? And how to I explain Sarah Palin?
Thursday my school’s open house, which gets easier and easier after doing it 19 times. This is the first year I’ve shown up with no tie and a pony tail.
I thought about sharing with them my burgeoning desire for anarchy and my dark hope (there’s that word again… dammit) that this really IS the end of the world as we know it… but I feel fine. Maybe economic collapse is the high colonnic our nation’s intestines need.
Time to put the girls to bed. Good night my dears, and I hope you enjoy the debt Wall Street has socked you with for all eternity.
Yeah I know what you mean, I can’t decide which I’d rather see. The band aid work, ease the problems so we can get back to some sense of normality. Or total collapse of the system. Any band aids are simply going to prop up a system that cannot survive. It would be nice to ease our way into a sustainable future. But maybe crisis is the only way that people will be willing to take the action needed to change our ways, the only real fear for this is that I think many many people will die. Not so much here in the US but I fear for a major world wide food shortage. There’s other fears too but thats the big one.
It’s pretty crazy when a trillion dollar bailout can be called a band aid.
This is just to say I LOVE YOU HONEY
and that counts for something even in economic bad times