Wow, such incredible thoughts and passionate feelings in these diaries. My tin-foil hat is getting badly rumpled from my putting it on and off all damned day long. Is there really such machiavellian hatred in the world? Is it really my time to face the approaching din of thunderous galloping of the four horsemen?
...or, is it at all possible that the terrible times we are in (and they are terrible) seem greater in scale because WE are living them? We talk about them so quickly, so easily...share our worst thoughts and fears so seamlessly with a few mouseclicks...but if we step backwards, just for a moment...
My parents had:
* Cuban missile crisis
* Kennedy's asassination
* Vietnam
* Kent State
...and a million other terrible moments. My mother recounts that she felt the world was falling apart during the Cuban missile crisis, that she feared for the future of baby in her abdomen. I feel that way now, when I look at my child...
And my grandparents?
* World War I
* 1918 flu pandemic
* Wall Street crash of '29 and the dust bowl years
* Hitler and the final solution
* WWII
* Hiroshima
..and my great-grandparents, who lived scorned as Jews in Russia in the 19th century?
I can go on and on.
Today's issues brought forth in so many excellent diaries are ones we should not ignore. History is to be looked at and learned from, certainly, but also it is to give perspective. There have always been horrible events, since the dawn of time, and there always will be.
I can easily, and many nights do, fall into hideous thoughts of Bu$hCo's Final Solution, in the works, being unleashed upon us now. But, sometimes I snap out of it, and realize that, as ugly as our country's leadership is now, it is but another bump in the road of humanity's brutal time and that everything is cyclic. The easy talk we have over copper and fiber wires is wonderful and liberating, but also, perhaps, makes us a little too myopic that what we talk and dream about is more urgent than anything that has come before it.
...damn, I hope so.
"Honey, where's my tin foil hat?"