Refusing To Remove The Rose-Colored Glasses
By Kleinheider Posted on October 5, 2008 at 2:53 pmRex Hammock cautions us to ignore the fear we feel about the economy:
I refuse to be victimized by a predisposition to dismiss reality and embrace the doomsayer’s survivalist scam.
From my observations of the past three decades of living in a uniquely prosperous place and moment in history (we know how to freeze protein and fat) — with economic opportunity available to more people than in any generation preceding it, I can see why it is easy to convince people that everything they have is about to be taken away.
Prosperity, freedom, relative peace — are not natural.
It is easy — it is natural down to our DNA — to believe we live in a country that is being taken over by whomever we fear the most: the right-wing, the socialists, the fundamentalists, the secular humanists, the religious zealots, the atheists, the pinkos, the rednecks, the elitists, Joe six-pack.
But succumbing to such fears — to be frozen by such fear — is a far greater threat to the world’s economy than any freezing of credit.
It causes us to become obsessed with threats where there are none. It causes us to store up roots and seeds when we still know how to grow and preserve crops.
Tags: X Easy thing to say for a man who likely no longer requires just his income to survive
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Nail–>Head on the tags.
Is suggesting that people not succumb to fear the same as suggesting people wear rose-colored glasses? I don’t think so. Is Warren Buffett wearing rose-colored glasses. Hell no. He’s been waiting for years for such a time as this. This is not about rose-colored glasses. This is about getting out of the fetal position and recognizing there’s opportunity all around you.
Rex, on behalf of my fellow citizens of our nation of whiners, we are grateful for you sagacity.
I think you are channeling Franklin R.
Did any of you ever once think about doing something for yourselves instead of instituting another government program to do it for you? It has nothing to do with not requiring just his income to survive. It has EVERYTHING to do with depending on himself for survival. The newest generation has no idea what it is like to actually have to save money and wait for something. Credit has always been available. They are a society of immediate gratification and they have no comprehension of the hard work and dedication it took of many generations to get them into the lap of luxury they currently reside in. Seems to me that Karma is at work in this ungrateful and lazy country we have now that is content to sit back and let government run their lives. Until people step up to the plate and accept the responsibility of taking care of themselves, it won’t get any better either.
Fortunately, some of us have been patient and not greedy or extravagant and raised patient, frugal children, now adults. Of course, our parents were the real children of the depression. Now it will be interesting. Less is more.