Born into the wrong time

Longing..sometimes almost a  sense of loss..these are things that I feel when I watch a movie that
bursts with life from the earlier part of the last century. The succulent and sinful roaring 20's, the stunningly striking 30's, and the music and vibrancy that filled you with life 40's. I feel like I have missed something that used to be mine.

Reincarnation? Possibly, who really knows. I just know that there are many times that I feel like I do not belong to this time and place. I have no idea if I am part of many, or exclusively alone in my dilemma. I love the music, the clothes, the spirit of those times. So yes, I do wonder if the person I was before left those years behind so that I could step into their shoes and begin again.  I long for times that will never come again.

As far as I can surmise, there is No perfect time to be alive, all those years that came before came with their own sets of sorrows and tribulation. But why this longing? Why do I feel so many times that I don't belong here today? Maybe it is the loss of something that is important to me and is disappearing in today's world....

I cannot put a finger on it...lack of respect for each other....lack of expected manners...lack of innocent joy....pleasure with the simple things that life can bring...the soft romantic side of life...or is it distrust of today? Today I feel that that our way of life is drawn and enforced by the powerful that have their own vision, and it is Not Us surviving..it's them. I feel like a helpless pawn at times, marching towards whatever
vision someone else has determined for me and those like me.

So maybe it's natural to want to be in some other time, some place that remains untouched by the power brokers of today's world. To be someplace innocent...to be someone unaffected by the world of today.
So now I submit that if I had a time machine, it would not take me to a place I have been in this life time, but to another life time that calls to me.

what is fair?

I've fallen behind in my blogging. I feel that this is due to me 'griping' about the same old things, and even I get tired of writing about that. It's been a weird past two weeks with the Notorious Murphy stopping by to stir things up again. All I want is resolution, and the ability to be comfortable financially. If we were ever paid a Fair Wage in our lifetime it would be a very good thing. And while we are busy being fair, how about a "fair Tax?"

My late Uncle Jack was very passionate about the "Fair Tax" concept. Essentially no more regular income tax. If you purchase luxury items the sales tax would be higher, taking the place of the blood letting from our salaries. I am sure Big Business would be the first to veto this idea. Cars, computers, houses, electronics, vacations, etc....would cost more. But, here is the thing:: if you take home more money you could afford to buy the items that were being taxed at a higher rate.  On the other hand if you did not need those things you could bring home more money to feed your family, pay your rent, see doctors when you need to.

It feels to me like a dream, nice, but you know how hard the Republicans and Big Business will fight against it. Likely calling those who want the fair wage and fair tax socialists (gasp!). And Lord knows just how afraid most of the stupid people in this country are about socialism..I think it sits right beside 'Sexually transmitted diseases, and Sasquatch on their shelf of ignorance.

I have not given up hope. I believe that some people are waking up. There is a huge leap in activism on the internet these days. Monsanto is being battled across the world, and just a few years ago they seemed untouchable, free to poison and steal farmer's lands in outrageously unfair court battles. Animal rights activists are making a difference as well. I hope someday that enlightenment will spread like wildfire across the world.
After all, they are the few, and we are the many. They do not own the world...but they will take it if we don't stand up and speak against it. "Certain unalienable human rights...the right to pursue happiness," they meant something important at our start. Maybe someday they can shine again.

g'nite
K