rough and tough times are a'coming

Maybe its just something in the air or my growing cynicism and pessimism but it seems that more crazy things are happeing every day. Random and undirected violence. People getting shot for no reason. Hit and run rampage in downtown San Francisco. 9-11 conspiracy theories. Growing white nationalist movements. Anger. Rage. Impotence. The kids are out of control.

Is it a function of the continued presence of the U.S. in Iraq and GWB's continued and increasing delusional functioning as the President of the United States? Is it the ever more evident lack of progress for the working poor? The lack of substitantive art being made? No clear national resistance to the status-quo? Unfortunately I have no answers but only a proposal.

The politico-kids love to quote true-isms like "the personal is the political" and though this is definitely true I don't think that means shopping at Whole Foods is kosher. It means dealing with and making your community better. It is up to us to create the new paradigm of self-sufficiency and doing things right on a real level. Why worry about the national good when we need to deal with the local problems? I refuse to feel guilty and I also refuse to feel impotent. Change can happen and we can all help it along. Individuals dealing with individuals to make our individual situations better.