“Everything’s All Right”

Did you ever notice that the philosophy of America is changing? For our grandparents (parents if you’re my age) it was “We can do it”. The whole country made the sacrifices to get through the depression and WWII. They had to rationed gas, sugar, rubber, and silk stockings. That’s when they invented tan in a can. For us (or our parents), it was Anything Goes, cause we were the flower children. We rejected the pressures to perform and just dropped out, that is until the Charles Manson pics showed kids just like us going through the garbage. So then most of us grew up and became a greedier less disciplined version of our parents. We evolved into a society of people Livin the Good Life, thus following in our great grandparents era of the “Roaring Twenties” jazz, bathtub gin and all that stuff. Of course they bombed and created the depression, and we created the housing market slide of our generation. We also set the tone for the changing philosophy of coping with the results of continually trying to live the Good Life. I call it Everything’s All Right.
Recently I watched a cable movie titled “Everybody’s Fine. The movie’s conclusion was that everyone in the featured family was all right because they finally managed to come together at Thanksgiving and have a good time. This happened after years of neglecting their widower father and the youngest son’s suicide. Yes, I thought, this has become a new way of coping with the absurd way some of us live and think these days. It’s like seeing teens walking around in shorts and little tee’s when it’s freezing out and Ugg’s (fur lined boots) and jackets when it’s summer. Oh it’s fine. We like it that way. It’s like not ordering any food at the restaurant for little Joey because he’d rather eat his boogers. It’s fine. They’re salty and he likes them.
Everything’s just fine.
It’s so fine that we have accepted that on election- day we are content to vote for whoever is the best liar. We accept the fact that to fix an economy steeped in debt our government can just hand out money. We forget that when FG (Federal Government) hands out $1 it has to take out for its expenses to do so. Tear off a big piece of the dollar. It hands it to SG ( State Government ) to distribute, tear off another piece. Then SG hands if off to CG (yep County Government) then maybe there may be a little piece left, if the city doesn’t use it up for something else, a little piece may be left to create a job. Oh Oh. Jobs are still not growing. Duh. But everything’s fine.
We do the same thing with immigration, moral issues, and so on. We are so concerned with tolerance for all that we forget that we will loose all if we tolerate all. I just read the other day that the new policy in the war in Afghanistan is to kill insurgents. Oh somehow I thought that’s what armies did at war. The insurgents seem to be killing people. Oh well, everything’s fine.
So, my hope is that the new generation of adults will somehow be able to sort through the moronic dribble of the higher education doled out by the former flower children of my generation, and the “tolerate all” of the good lifers, put on their Jesus sandals and walk us out the mess we’ve made of things. With their conscious in tact, and the use of some good common sense they can be the roaring, can do, go for the good life through good living people we want them to become. I’m for change. I’m for changing the self-centered anything goes, tolerate all, everything’s all right confusion to the to kind of good common sense thinking that leads us out of this maze of one size fits all, we can meet everyone’s needs fairy tales kind of public thinking. Is there anyone out there who even kind of listened to the basics of what really works in their history classes? I sure hope so. I am ready to listen to the voices of reason even if they come from unemployed plumbers. So bring it on you newbies on the block we are ready to let you have a turn. Sorry there’s no money to buy things with, nothing much left but our neediness that we are waiting for your tax dollars to fulfill. Our obese, welfare dependent, lawless, disaster ridden nation needs you. Step up and don’t let anything or anyone but good common sense guide you, and heaven help us if you don’t.