Read on... My best advice is to follow mckarkies' lead and stop allowing outside, institutional entities determine your level of happiness. Some of the happiest and most well adjusted people I know have little and the most fucked up, miserable folks are guardians of much accumulated wealth, possessions. Too many people allow the idiot box hooked to the satellite or coaxial cable to tell them how happy they are and that's a genius way to manipulate markets for maximum profitability. Your sense of misery tells me that you're probably being played quite successfully by consumerist propaganda delivered via mass media. General happiness and the sense of "good times" is generated within you- not imported from an economy that would have you chase some manufactured illusion of happiness/success for the purpose of making you spend spend spend. Those telling you the good times are over are not interested in your happiness, just your money- which they likely already consider to be theirs.
The good times are not over for everyone, for many, yes. If a order of balance does not happen for all humanity to live happily and healthy, good times will be over for everyone.
Yea, don't listen to the store bought media, especially the big three on the boobtube, listen to the radio, NPR. We just gotta get outa these endless wars and take care of home and our own for a change....:-/
I wouldnt be surprised with how fucked up things are getting!!! Food in the US tastes like crap,etc........
I try not to watch the news too much. It's fucking depressing. Why stress yourself out, just be a good person and spread the love man!
When it comes to the news media, there's no such thing as "good times" and there never was. Their whole business is based on bad times because that's what people want to hear about.
I hope they are, people need to get outt of the "good times" mindset and realise that times aren't good. I can't abide this "be happy no matter what" attitude because it's just STUPID and BRAINLESS to force yourself to be happy despite overwhelming evidence thhat you should be EXTREMELY ANGRY about the world. If we all convince ourselves to be happy and act like nothing's wrong then nothing will ever change. Don't placate yourself, pretending it doesn't effect you and things will get better just from you smiling all the time, instead do something about the cause of anger and stress. You need to be angry and bummed-out enoguh to STOP paying taxes, license fees, working, buying things, wearing clothes etc. You need to be SO PISSED OFF that you go against the wayy things are entirely. Otherwise, nothing will change. And you'll be fake happy.