Monday, July 29, 2024
In America, this week is starting with the national scene heating significantly. The presidential candidates are tied neck-to-neck, the Feds might cut interest rates, Joe intends to reform the Supreme Court by instituting term limits and an ethics code, and gender battles are re-energized and in an uproar.
There’s plenty to worry about locally, too. Here on the West Coast, wildfires are raging; they’re huge and destructive, with arsonists, as usual, responsible for many. I’m not personally fighting a nearby wildfire, but grid damages and supply shortages will increase my monthly electric and water bills.
Now, it’s much more than “the economy, Stupid.” Today, all nations are involved; “it’s” a world economy of environmental changes, supply chain inadequacies, overpopulation tensions, and religious and migration issues.
We’re all on edge with worries about earthquakes, wildfires, rising costs, and shifting populations, and we are doubting the once-rosy visions of promising technology. For example, electrical grids that can’t adequately charge the predicted waves of battery-powered vehicles.
Sure, societies have weathered big changes. They cycled through the Industrial Revolution, a horseless carriage era, and the Twentieth Century’s post-world wars. Finally, resistance to the war in Vietnam changed how societies weathered events.
My point is that this week is opening to a renewed wave of social-economic issues. They’re about who will run the country, who will legitimize decisions, and whether the economy can be regulated to help daily living become more affordable.
It’s about a world economy, Stupid.
Dear Friends: About the movie “Casablanca,” I love its naive dose of heroism. Diana
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