Angst Surrounding Us
August 22nd, 2008 . by iVote
Does the current world climate, politics and economics create global angst that infects the masses? Is angst surrounding us on all sides, creating a slippage in the fundamental moorings upon which we formerly relied?
Or, is it just the information tonnage we consume and digest hourly that is creating a kind of “knowing too much” that makes us tense and irritable, untrusting and angry, unclear and indecisive?
Does the term “global warming” refer to us and not the climate? Is “climate change” about the transformation of our once pristine lives and mental states into billions of disjointed concepts we cannot arrange? Do we simply have too much crap rattling about in our craniums that we cannot make sense of?
Is the ”global war on terror” really political or is its nucleus found within the psyche of billions of distraught people who can’t make sense of life and therefore we reach for what cannot be secured and demand of our leaders that which they cannot begin to provide.
Is there an angst surrounding us? What is this nervousness we seem to all feel?
With the election just weeks ahead, what will Obama or McCain really create…more angst? Can either of them bring any sense of direction in a world seemingly tumbling deeper into abysmal chaos? Are the political solutions solutions at all? Are we all being duped from both sides into drinking Kool-Aid laced with political Prozac designed to calm us down so we can cope?
The morning after the election will we awaken from our slumber only to discover we are hung-over from a party we never really wanted to attend in the first place?
Is our vote, in the final analysis, a vote for one form of angst over another? iVoteAmerica wonders.



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