Woe to the World
Posted: September 27, 2007 at 5:05 pm by pannDo you ever get overwhelmed by the crises and miseries and war that are going on all around the world? I do and I am.
I’m overwhelmed thinking what life will be like in 10, 20, 30 years. I fear the worst and feel very grim about it. How will my children get by? When will the great oil shortages begin? When will the climate change cause catastrophes akin to Katrina and worse? I am far past “what if” and am now onto “When” and I’m getting really freaked out.
Will there be rioting? Starvation? Lack of clean water, basic health services and food? What will happen to me, to us, to our friends? Will we need to grow all our own food? There are already so many people in the world who are actually starving; when will it be happening here too?
It is much easier to just go on with life, doing the laundry, making the meals, doing what we can for now than to contemplate all this Woe. I am amazed at my own pessimism. Are these anti-depressants failing to work all of a sudden? Sadly, I don’t think these fears of my have anything to do with my own brain chemistry and they have everything to do with my having just spent a while searching the internet to try to catch up on what is going on in the world.
Most of the time, I live in a fairly media-sheltered way, by choice. Because you know, I get overwhelmed by reality and avoid it like the plague. Then I go and dip into CNN and MoveOn.Org and Michael Moore and more and more and then shrink back again, feeling like I’ve just stuck my emotions into a pot of boiling water.
I think we’ll have turkey burgers for dinner with swiss chard on the side.
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September 28th, 2007 at 8:15 am
It’s not you. I feel the same way. Sometimes it’s easier to tune out the misery just for a bit. It is overwhelming and real at times.
Hope the swiss chard was divine.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Oh it was! I love this vegetable and at least one of my kids eats it too!
September 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
You have an ad for cat constipation running. What is up with that?
Totally random comment.
Chard. Mmmm….
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I can relate, oh, I can relate.
find myself thinking that A. and I really need to learn how to grow food for sustenance on our land; enough for us and maybe some of our neighbors, if possible. I feel like if we are smart at all we won’t sell our 10 acres, but rather develop it so we can survive. I seriously have these thoughts.
More and more I want to learn how to fix things myself, build things myself, create things myself because some day it is going to come down to knowing how to do things in a very different way than running to Wal-Mart.
Then I wonder if I am going crazy, if I am a lunatic, or just being prepared?
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Yes, it’s one of those times when I wonder if I’m crazy to think about these things.
I mean, remember 1999? How people were stocking up on water and home power generators, because when “all the computers stop working” in 2000 we would no longer have power, food, water?
That was a total non-event, right?
But this Peak Oil thing…. hmmm…. seems a lot more real.