Why it's not always a bad thing that adversity does suck.....
Recently life for most of America has been rather, "educational". Many young men and women are for the first time in their adult lives, experiencing for longer than a very short while how it feels to have to do today what others will not for less, so they can do tomorrow what others cannot, for more. Most of us affected did little if anything directly to invite our current lack of opportunity. Except for a single action taken by each, in private. It was in the one place we as Americans all visit from time to time, just infrequently enough for us to let "human nature" yet again demonstrate to ourselves and teach our children, that it is to be considered completely acceptable for children as grown-ups to, fold like a lawn chair due to the pressure when the selfish need for instant gratification is required to take a lower priority to our need to be protecting ourselves and our children's futures. When we've been directly supervising the conduct of some of the people claiming to have the willingness to go the extra mile on behalf of us all as BP has generously declared for enough years to wear smooth some of my personal distrust maybe until then, nobody should be paying such high taxes for such piss-poor work. Keeping a mistrustful eye on actions that obviously should not have been attempted at all who are metaphorically speaking attempting to run a marathon in Hell while wearing gasoline underwear.
Adversity today is deeper and more widespread than during the "Great Depression". It's also the eventual logical result when we remain collectively asleep at the switch and sheepishly act with cowardace and stupidity derived from our acceptance of patently false & manufactured hope to avoid having to take personal responsibility for our circumstances. The situation we are in globally, is nothing better or worse than the logical result of our collective long-term actions. The BP oil spill shows me that the entire human race needs to go to "ethical rehab". To learn how and when it is appropriate for us to "provoke" positive change in our leaders before we recall them from office.
For example: BP who last month managed to snatch defeat right from the jaws of victory at a depth of 6,000 feet below sea level showed me in big tar like letters that the oil leak itself is not a long-term issue. The sea floor naturally percolates a lot of crude oil every year. The part that fills me with pity for the human race is the hard fact that besides a fair number of investment banks and hedge funds are far from being the collective owners of BP assets. The entire balance of BP's individual citizen stockholders numbers just 21 people. With so few irresponsible people in charge of much, I can't fathom for a monent where the motivation lives within these 21 people to justify the lies and lack of results while we're only now being told by BP execs "shouldn't be the case". Isn't this kind of thing why jail was invented?
If these 21 individuals had simply called a single meething and gotten together to decided how they were to willing to spend to buck the ethical trend and went about the business of leak stopping while conducting themselves in as altruistic a fashion as is possible. Which relates to the their moral, ethical, spiritual as well as financial obligations to their individual restoration of the populace at first through hiring of all of the locals en mass everyday for oil clean up. Which we all know is the quest upon the shoulders of each and every person at BP whose incompetence and hubris have affected the entire planet's population by BP's unpreparedness to stop their direct poisoning of the seas.
The American people need huge amounts of employment badly. There is an enourmous amount of highest priority work the whole world can see needs to be done. Adversity as a concept is the greatest motivator of all for the human spirit to overcome difficulties in the self-reliant style Americans have shown the world for over 200 years. Only today, BP has been practicing their incapability for self-reliance by their daily failing to put a round peg, into a round hole. regardless of the hole's location.
Americans are raised from birth to be able to figure out how to transform the negativity the world gives them into anything else both of much greater value and in higher demand. What do you think that is? It's called liberty and we're almost out of that too.
If illness and death suddenly managed to stop being "bad" life events, it necessarily follows that the joy of birth would lose it's significance. And who wants that? Not me.
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