Our Uglier Side

You know I will never forget walking into my neighborhood Publix and seeing it cleaned out completely from wall to wall after a Hurricane when I lived in Florida. Everything. Gone. All of it. Gone. I kinda had to stop and think, "So this is how it goes down at the end of days.....we horde toilet paper, potted meat, and diet cherry cream soda with lime.......we fight for a spot waiting hours to top off our tanks with gas" I kinda feel that way right now.

Look around your day to day life. People everywhere are hurting and the priorities are all wrong. Seeing and hearing anger every day has led me to really understand the bigger picture. People have lost jobs, lost a lot of money, there is no job security, financial markets are down and spiraling, government is attempting to grasp that which cannot likely be grasped. Let's all just calm down for a moment. It's not the democrat's fault. It's not the republican's fault. It's not the immigrant's fault. We are too busy looking for somebody to blame that anger has become a weapon aimed at anybody and everybody that is not like us and thinks the same way. We all have a hand in where we are and we are all being affected by the corporate greed and retail society that we all so willingly sold our souls into just because somebody told us that we could be on a reality TV show and have five minutes of fame.

You see, we own this mess.

I will even let the world in on a little known secret - it won't get better until we decide to stop looking for somebody to blame and solve our problem by stopping to give and help each other out. A darker day is indeed coming more than likely. A major financial is likely to fail resulting in the market making an unprecedented correction. Q1 earnings will be horrific leading to more blood on the streets and in the markets. Let's just get a grasp on these things now. However, we are defined by how we handle bad times, so don't forget to look in the mirror when that day comes.

Do YOU like the person looking back at you?

"God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. "

I think Tyler was on to something. I love that movie for a reason.