We Can Endure; Quit Fighting the Inevitable

I can't help, but notice that everyone is obsessed with money.  I wonder why we continue our endless pursuits of things that will never be?  As if we have one more dollar or one more car or a bigger house or bigger a TV or a fancier vacation; as if when we obtain these things will have anything left to pursue or will we have finally found life's content?  Or worse yet we die trying to capture that which is not even possible and then we are left going to our graves unfulfilled.  

The economy, jobs, bills, clothes, things that contribute to our supposed happiness.  It seems like times are never as good as they seem, yet they are never quite the dismal apocalyptic circumstances that people paint them to be either.  Talk to any person who complains about money, poor or rich, and is seems the problem is never enough.  People act like a factory closing down or a store losing it's business is the end of the world and the fall of modern society as we know it.  You'd never think by watching our 24 hour zombie channels that any business had ever shut down until the last few years.  

I feel for people who have lost their jobs and families who have taken a hit; don't think I'm being callous to other people's bad times, but this country has seen it's fair share of products, factories, stores, towns, several kinds of money makers shut down, and even one "Great Depression" and yet here we still are.  Yet we endured and adapted.  Bailing out corporations and other businesses to me seems like a futile attempt to give the appearance that our government cares and is working to make sure that everyone 'believes' them by spending money we don't have.  Funny that it's called counterfeiting when other people do this.  

I just think there are many more productive ways to spend money especially if they are truly concerned about the state of the country.  At one time agriculture was the biggest source of income for most people in this country and was the main economic source for the U.S., and today only 2% of working families rely on farming as their lively hood.  What happened?  The industrial revolution happened and once again America adapted and survived without bailing out failing farms; of course we still have those money guzzling farm subsidiaries.  

Now we are in what I guess some people call 'Information Age' for lack of a better term.  Information runs our society.  We have internet access in all kinds of crazy places and along with that comes instant shipping, ebay, chat rooms, and buying stocks.  I'm not saying that we shouldn't save jobs if they can be saved and be saved to the point where they will still be beneficial, but if not then it's time to get off a sinking ship before we all drown.  

People will have to find other jobs.  Fear of the unknown is always more paralyzing then the actual job loss.  We've endured this long and we will endure some more.  The end of the Industrial Age in the American sense doesn't mean the end of the working man or America.  It just means we've adapted and changed course yet again like so many times before.