divineguitar

sitting at flightpath coffee in austin texas, remembering the times when i made a lot of time for blogging, before the 84 hour typical week and no stimuli in the desert.

i think about the things that could potentially be out of the hands of god, and the redefinition of what a ‘crisis’ is in terms of finance.

what’s out of the hands of god could be the same thing that’s out of the realm of wishes for the genie in alladin

– can’t kill anyone
– can’t make someone fall in love with someone else
– can’t raise someone from the dead

all makes sense, and when i think each of those through that’s some fringe philosophy.

on a different note, you can ask 999 economics out of 1000 if we’re screwed and they’ll tell you yes.  meanwhile we have plenty if we live within our means and execute self control to not consume what’s thrown down our throats. we need to get used to a reality where people may not be able to make house pmts, but they’ll be carrying around the new ipads and have steaks on the pit.

what happens when the answer is unacceptable?  we tend to redefine the rules to not accept austerity.  show me a politician that says we’re going to find the optimum point to raise taxes to put money in the coffers while cutting allotments and i’ll vote for him, but there isn’t one alive that will do this because of political suicide in a pain averse and entitled society.  maybe the deflation that would occur from such action would only entrench to elite with bargaining power, but for fundamentalists who think that’s the answer, there are not so easy but simple solutions.

therefore, recovery, fake or not, i’m riding it, i have my surf board tied to my leg, if big gov’t makes the advance and ‘gets rich’ I’ll be on that side, if the banks and oligarchs can ever be trusted again, I’ll sway to that side.

Viktor Frankl once said when you can’t change your circumstances, you’re challenged to change yourself.  I think when you can change yourself and your circumstances, love it and embrace it, you will be presented the keys to the kingdom.