Not the best of weeks,
After Monday, I had the voice of Mr Waits going round in my head reminding me that when we're riding high in April, we are often seriously shot down in May. Terrible day, made worse by being observed and having to perform some extra and long winded process based nonsense that just made an already overcrowded and tetchy group session all the more difficult. I just couldn't get it together and as the day progressed, I just wanted out of the whole thing. Funny how sometimes, you can have a really good run of something and then it just turns and becomes hell on earth. It didn't really help that some of the participants were a little unresponsive to my practical and as I thought, helpful advice on their apparent lack of luck in getting jobs. I wish I'd have just kept my mouth shut and agreed with them. Anyway, done now and thank God for that.
On a different note, but somehow connected, something that made me sit up and take notice has been the discovery on YouTube of a country song that goes by the name of Made in America. I say sit up because it did more than point out something that concerns me about how one thing can lead to another when issues of a Patriotic nature come to the fore.
Things that sometimes come under the banner of Patriotism or whatever, call it want you want, I just don't get them.They always feel wrong. We live in a world where we know Politicians and Governments to be less than truthful and quite prepared to do what ever they want to maintain the good times. Recent events have shown though that isn't as secure as it was once thought to be.
For some who were at the front of the race, stumbling has occurred and brought about the need for a rethink as to how things actually are on the big world stage at the moment.
It seems to have upset some and their reaction to the current state of affairs is one that's slightly worrying.
Flag waving and singing while showing slow motion film of good old American Mid West families and assorted other stereotypical everyday average Joes standing in corn fields and sitting in barns, whilst staring into the middle distance and looking slightly upset and abashed because America is now full of "foreign cars" running on "gas that isn't ours" and then reassuring us that they aren't being prejudiced about all this it's simply the fact that these people are "made in America" and these other things, being made somewhere else, are causing the problems for those that are. At this point I started thinking is that not being prejudiced like when someone tells me they're not being funny but...
So, what is the problem then? the rest of The World encroaching, the unexpected erosion of a way of life and an economy once thought indestructible or the prospect of things having to change because guess what,nothing stays the same?
Welcome to the rest of The World... It happens to all of us.
Change in how the things around us work can be upsetting. The shift in where we stand in the running of things even more so. Assuming that these things aren't going to happen is something we can do as people. When they do, we can either rally against them and run the risk of becoming something we don'r want to or see what we can make of them.
Either way, one thing we have to understand, no matter what colour our flag or our feelings towards any change, nothing is ever "ours"... not really
And technically, isn't everyone in America, in some way, actually made somewhere else?
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