Isn't it something the way fearmongers have
contaminated the world, our world, with booger's-gonna-get-ya stories--add to
that the wave of crimes on an increasing high roll prompted by people who are
homeless, hungry, without jobs and all of what goes with a tanking economy?
So what is there today to be afraid of? As the elder
lady in the e-mail says, "Not a f*cking thing!" I replied.
No word back yet.
Our friendship appears to be souring like our souring
economy where even nearly every booth in the flea market I went to a couple of
days ago was empty. No customers pacing the courts of the market inside.
Outside whatever vendors had their merchandise displayed on the pavement looked
more like scavengers themselves than the vendors they are supposed to be. Even the outside courts, where merchandise is usually
sold for a dollar or two, were empty, nearly deserted. We spoke to a vendor or
two. "It is bad. They said. It is terribly bad, they went on. So many vendors have closed shop.
Even those vendors who made a living here in the last sixteen years or so
decided to close shop and leave. It is just so bad." They said.
You can feel the emptiness. You can almost touch it.
The ship of fools out in television land totally
contradicts our national reality. The pundits lie their heads off all over the
place. They extol the virtues (I can't find any) of a Barack Obama presidency and
re-election. Or, they are fixed on which Republican is today's front-runner.
Not a mention from the pundits of the truly sad economic times we are groping
with.
Talk shows bring us hosts giving gifts galore to a
frenzied audience thrilled to receive gifts from corporations which have
donated these gifts (promotional tools) to the talk shows, or they cook meals
fit for kings bypassing any mention of the many empty bellies in our land
today.
Switching channels, desperately looking for some
uplifting program, I came upon Ovation TV. They were showing a presentation of
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet at the London Opera House.
I had never seen it choreographed this way before.
It was beautiful and uplifting.
It gave me at least one
night's peaceful rest.
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