Flying cars. Apple's new phone sucks. Especially if you're a left-hander and therefore you naturally cover up the antenna. Congress votes down the bill to extend unemployment benefits to those collecting.
So, maybe you can fly, but you'll be hard pressed to get a signal to tell your buddy about it and you won't have any more cash cause the funds are all dried up and you still can't find a job. That's what's happening in our world today, at this very moment.
Not so very long ago, we watched the Jetsons and our dreams were propelled toward a future that would include treadmills for dogs and flying cars. In that futuristic world, we never saw poverty. We had supposedly figured out how to feed the hungry, create jobs for all and maintain family life that included everything imaginable. Possibility.
The possibilities that exist in today's world seem to be closer at hand for those in the top 1% of the world. For the rest, there is a sheen of hopelessness that exists. Shoddy products abound. Unemployment rages on. Jobless statistics vastly underestimate reality and discount the hundreds of thousands of people who have gone beyond their unemployment benefits and are still without work. Employers look not for longevity but cost savings; not for innovation, but for meeting the status quo.
Undeniably we are at a low point. The only way out is to persevere. As the Brits said during WWII "Keep Calm and Carry On."
I'll just keep that lovely image of flying cars in my mind's eye and take a deep breath.
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