Hmmm

I was going to say something just now, but noticed that I had said something fairly pessimistic in my last entry...and people are still whining about what so and so said twenty years ago and bitching because they can no longer afford 3 bathroom houses...The best news I've read lately is about GM's plug in hybrid to be released in 2010 which will go 40 miles on battery power and another 360 using a small engine to charge the battery, for a total of 400 miles on about 8 gallons of gas. Two years too late but it takes a crisis to spur action and hopefully it's not too late in the larger picture....Part of me believes that a major economic depression would be beneficial to many Americans by adjusting their attitudes to a more appreciative state, but I am outraged that it was obscene greed that put the entire world into this precarious economic condition..The terrorists who want to bring down Capitalism merely need to sit back and watch-no need of bombs...I get weary sometimes watching human nature destroy itself when there is/was so much potential, and I get disgusted that we are killing the rest of the planet along with us. Maybe it is part of the master plan and our reign is nearly over...maybe we just need another shot of hope and courage and cooperation and innovation..I'm just not convinced that people in this nation have it in them anymore..we'll see... If anyone is looking to me all I can say is that I slept in a ditch with a smile on my face so we don't need all the materialism to be happy...but I also sometimes think that my thought processes and opinions diverge so far from the average citizen that I don't even bother to engage in the dialogue anymore