Judgements

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Post-Impressionism / Edouard Vuillard/ Interior

Been pondering of late about this fall/winter that is bearing down on us.  Can’t say for a minute that I am thrilled about the prospects.  Now granted, things might work out just fine.  I have been wrong before.  But truthfully, it might just be my age talking louder than usual.

I think the reason that I feel more worried about the slide down is that there seems to be more to worry about coming down the pike.  That in itself is not particularly worrisome, no more than 5/10.  Lots of bad predicate conditions have happened before.  

Nope, what worries me is the overall leadership in the country.  I am not really talking about the series of idiots that have taken up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania during this benighted century (though that is getting worrisome in and of itself), but I am talking about the second and third levels down and their apparent ineptness.  Congress, Governors, and the heads of the big companies (Known here as CG&H), as a rule do not seem to know what they are doing.

Now, this vague generality does not include the financial sector, they appear to know exactly what they are doing.  They are successfully finding the greater fool.  

But the remainder of the CG&H are flailing.  They are expected to match the ROI that the financial sector manages.  But the problem is that they really can’t when one considers the state of the world.  The manufacturers really can’t keep manufacturing the way they did in the past.  Just can’t happen.  The energy and raw material requirements to even keep the manufacturing at current levels are vanishing.  Now, discussion on how this came to pass is another discussion, the decisions made in the past forty years have simply made the condition we are in inevitable.  

So here we are, with an economy of non-productive means trying to figure out how to provide for a populace who can’t imagine another lifestyle.  To say that something has to give is an understatement.  I am hoping for as far away in the future as possible.