I think everyone feels it, like an undercurrent of electricity humming. I know I don’t know exactly what is happening, but SOMETHING is. As my cousin (who regrets her hysterical vote for Obama) expressed it, there is a “deep sense of foreboding.”
I feel it, and I see it on people in the grocery store. The skeptic in me steps back and wants to say “This is just silly, things have been ‘scary’ before.” And truth be told, the longer things are going along ‘normally’ (albeit with lack of jobs), the more I question if I am just hysterical. But I cannot turn lose of the undercurrent of being on the edge of something. And completely unsure of what that ‘something’ is.
Me too. I have never been as pessimistic about the financial situation. And I am not a panic-ky person. But I think we are starting the slide down the precipice. I have been calling it New America.
parsy, who will be a traveling balladeer and poet
Your post articulates what I’ve sensed for...months or maybe a little longer. I visualize it by “watching” the iceberg and the Titanic inching towards each other...you see something dreadful is inevitable- but you’re not sure what exactly, it will look like.
A small example of the oddness of things is a chat I had yesterday with a neighbor about Iran/Israel etc. He asserted it’s all going to be ok because America and Israel will stick together as we always have- that we will keep arming Israel etc. I explained that is not the case- this president and his adminstration are decidedly pro Palestinian. He kept saying “ America won’t let this or that happen”....I said- this is NOT the America you’ve always known. It was a startling moment- hearing him say that and my realizing, for the first time in my life (babyboomer age) no one can depend on America to do, be and stand for certain things we’ve always done, no matter who was in office..or what the politicians were up to.
The sense of impending doom is humming throughout the world.