Reply #53: Well, aren't you the ray of sunshine? [View All]

[Le Taz Hot]

Sorry, but I consider all of this as a PRIME opportunity for several things:

1) A sea change AGAINST all things corporate and building the economy from the ground up. We can make corporate American so out of favor that it becomes obsolete and we recognize it for the pariah that it is.

2) We've been WAY too greedy with virtual unlimited wealth and consumption. It's long been time to cut back on our naked and unfettered consumerism and get back to rebuilding, reusing and recycling.

3) Hopefully, enough people will become disgusted with BOTH corporate parties and start looking at alternatives.

4) Maybe, just maybe, it will force us to engage in more conservation as we can no longer buy new stuff when the old stuff breaks down.

5) We can get back to neighborhood-based community, helping each other when there is need instead of looking for some charitable or government or corporate entity to come and save us.

6) I still believe America has the world's greatest minds because we have the richness of so many different cultures which means different ideas and perspectives. We haven't lost our innovation, it's just been buried by corporatism and we've allowed that to happen. Americans have always been able to build a better mouse trap so to speak and I don't believe we've lost that ability. We just became lazy for awhile.

Instead of gnashing our teeth and whining, "Oh, woah is me, things ain't what they used to be" maybe we can ask ourselves, "What am I doing to help in the rebuilding?"