Refusing To Remove The Rose-Colored Glasses

By Kleinheider Posted on October 5, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Rex 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.

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