It Is Hard

It is hard, as David Bromberg once wrote. It is hard because it is daily in your face. Pick an issue. It does not change the fact that it is hard. Pick your head up look around, read, listen and it is hard to be positive, hard to look to the future and believe that based upon the current trajectory that tomorrow will better. It is not as if you wake up in the morning, wash your face off and say to that face … so, I guess this will be another day on the path towards the worst of days.

As a reader of science fiction, which so many of you of my readers laugh at, has a major advantage. You scoff, I know you do. You smirk at that old man watching his worthless future world nonsense. The books such silliness, imagine going into that section of Barnes and Noble. Its good that you all like to see things blow up combined with scantily clad females needing cue cards to remember their lines otherwise we hardly see the same movies. TV shows, well there was the X-Files phase, but otherwise chuckle … chuckle.

Anyone ever ask why? Why watch, Buffy or Stargate or Star Trek or now Merlin? Why read about vampires or future histories of mankind thousands of years in the future? Well look at the alternative.

Obama did this or that and moved us closer to becoming a true second class nation. If he apologizes to two more dictators he gets a free set of steak knives for apologizing to a full dozen or more in less than seven months in office. Democratic Congress not seeing a spending bill that did not excite them used to make fun of Bush for his $500 Billion annual deficits, now show him to be a piker with their $1 to $1.5 Trillion dollar deficits for at least the next seven to ten years. Obama moves along the path of selling Israel down the tubes to make nice to Arab dictators. Let’s not forget the Democratic plans to save the environment. The lofty goals have nice deadlines like 2030 or 2050 subject to extensions. Combine those wonderful goals with the penalties to be imposed on any country that is in love with stopping climate change, well they will not be able to do business with America. Those bad companies will have to settle doing business with China and its 1.5 Billion or India and its 1.0 Billion. Maybe they will decide to change their ways to do business with the 300 Million of the USA except by then we will be so bankrupt that we will not have any money to buy much.

Now, it may not be that bad. One can only hope.

So, I read and watch science fiction. Why, because to be classified as science fiction, it must have a positive ending. I long for a positive ending