Life Imploding

Not being alone in having one's life unravel, doesn't make it any better.

One doesn't have to read anything into the daily news reports to realize that life has certainly gone to hell - very quickly. Up to 2000 -- we were doing pretty well. Balanced budgets, mostly behaving weather, NY city still intact. The worst thing that some idiot fringe had to complain about was our leaders' inability to control his libido. Life, in general - was normal.

Now, we can barely remember what normal was.

Although I can write several books length on how we got here -- right now, I am so mired in it, I am just trying to survive. Something that I wouldn't place any bets on, by the way.
Suffice it to say  that never -- in my wildest bad trip nightmares of my life -- could I have envisioned that this would be the state of affairs, for me -- or the rest of us, now - or anytime within my lifetime.

The economy -- truly verging on full depression. Politics -- insane. Reality and truth are meaningless. Winning at any cost is the game. Looting is the norm. Profits are all that's important. Food additives, chemicals in the environment, fast food diet --- whatever the cause -- people have become intelligence-challenged. They'll believe truly ANYTHING, as long as the 'right' people are saying it. Mob mentality vs rational logic.

We have thousands of people willing to blow themselves up to earn points in an afterlife.

Here I am -- almost sixty years old -- with $.27 to my name -- twenty-something thousand in debt -- and owning two houses, both now worth $40,000 less than what I paid for them. Unemployed -- out of unemployment benefits -- uninsured, and have been for two years now, so over two years of no health care, no dental care. Thirteen year old vehicle that  needs repairs for more than what it's worth. But, not important -- for I don't have the money for gas or to renew the registration anyway.

The perfect storm of life.

My life is a microcosym of the world at large.

What's anyone to do?