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We’re Not In The Solutions Business

_POSTED_BY redstarfist

Sunday, 02 March 2008

shark by autotelic

Luckily, I was never attached to The American Dream; I never believed in it, was never even interested in it. I don’t possess the kind of social skills that are required to partake in it. Someone recently told me that many Americans are going to have to start dreaming alternative dreams; the masses might have to grapple with the void, and learn how to dance the existential dance, because the answers that many people are looking for can’t be found in the economy. Hello! There’s a recession going on. And the reason why this is so alarming is because the whole idea of community has virtually disappeared from our landscape. I’ve always been alone with nowhere to turn, but for those who always thought that life offered buffers are in for a very rude awakening. Every debt collector out there will tell you that many people are paying for gas and food with their credit cards, and paying their credit card bills before they pay their mortgages. Yes, it’s fatalistic, people know that the house will vanish, but they still need to eat. Is now the perfect time to “collectively” acknowledge that the big ship is sinking? The alienation that I have struggled with my entire life is now a mainstream phenomenon, and those that have never had to experience life as a self-contained unit, with nowhere to turn, are living with a type of hopelessness that I’ve been quite intimate with all along. I am curious as to what the church has been telling its flock as of late, cause if it’s not offering food and shelter, it can’t be saying anything that’s of much use.