skizziks

So today WAMU went tits up, brought about in part by everyone taking their money out in panic. Big banks are closing, we are at war, we have no gas in the southeast, a few towns in the gulf area are fucked up by nature. We have towns like Aspen and Vail in Colorado that are mostly empty homes, owned by people who live in the house two months out of the year, while the locals and people who work in the town can't afford to live in the town they were born in.

It seems the US is taking the express line to Shittown. And in a weird way, I'm excited to see what happens, see the change. I think we need a change, a drastic freaking change, we were getting so out of touch with reality there for a while. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a self loathing American, I don't want to see us in ruins, I just want us to kind of realize what is important, come back down to earth a bit. Perhaps it's because geographically we are so isolated from the rest of the world, we only have Canada and Mexico nearby, but we seem so oblivious to the fact that the majority of humans on earth have such a different view of life, perhaps grounded a bit more in reality. We seem to have been living like the trust fund kid at college, doing as he pleases, not thinking about how today's actions affect life next week, no consequences for our actions, just indulging in whatever whim we felt like. Now the trust fund is about tapped, and life will definitely change. We have to sober up and figure out what to do.

And I'm kind of looking forward to it. I hope we come out of it with a clearer mind, I hope we learn from our mistakes, I hope we mature a bit.

I wonder what we will be like one year from now.