There has been a lot of restlessness in the culture lately. Everyone I talk to, interact with tell me essentially the same thing.
People are staying home. They are not spending money, except on food, movies, gas, things around town. No one seems to be going to long distance vacations, Summertime trips are shorter, delayed, stay-at-homes are reading, using TV as entertainment, video shops are bustling, soda pop is flying off the shelves.
Bank Lines are growing, US Mail trucks are delivering more mail. I asked one postal carrier how come, and she said the uptick is heavier. She thought the recent news of the government spying on everybody has driven people "back to the future" back to snail mail.
" Big Brother can't check EVERY piece of mail," she told me.
She has a point I thought. With the scandals shooting holes in the trust factor of the government, some people have been drawing out money from banks. As of today, stock market levels took a nose dive unseen in years.
A general feeling of a lack of trust - in everyone, everywhere, in everything, seems to be coursing through the veins of America. Most I know believe very little in newsprint. Cable news is so ideologically divided, they seem hysterically driven in their reporting, in orbit, devoid of common sense let alone facts. It's difficult to trust some cable channels who deliver news with machettes in their hands.
Dear friends and relatives thought the president's visit to China to complain of that nation's spying on us somewhat laughable since our nation is spying on us anyway. After all, what's so interesting about what we're doing that makes the average American citizen worthy of such scrutiny?
Oh, I forget....we're armed to the teeth.
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