My Blue Period
This entry was posted on 2/26/2007 7:47 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
I decided that, like Picasso, I'm going through my blue period. The world and the policymakers in it have been nothing but getting on my nerves lately. The good news in this nomenclature is that blue periods by definition are only snippets in time, i.e. they MUST be temporary.
After Mark ran for office a second time I went through a blissful period of apathy, due to a combination of fatigue and hopelessness. Reports would come to me of stupid things politicians in DC and here in the Minnesota capital were doing and I would laugh a hearty laugh, gaily aware that I would have never found out on my own if someone hadn't told me because - ha ha! - I didn't pay attention anymore!!! My laughter was further bolstered because I didn't give a rip about the idiotic thing I had just heard. It was pure heaven.
For just a little while, I got to experience the joy of being one of those individuals who can't see beyond her own four walls, who never thinks about the big picture and never worries that we're flushing our nation down the toilet. No wonder the apathetic are such a large bunch - they're so damn happy!
Sadly, I'm back to being a news and policy junkie. Maybe it's an addiction. First I discovered Estonia and the success they've had there with good policy, which is really a ray of hope when I think about it. But that's just the problem. Having hope returned me to a state of dissatisfaction.
Then the inevitable happened. I started reading Free to Choose, which was the book that inspired the policy decisions of Estonia's prime minister Mart Laar. It was only a matter of time before the little activist monster inside of me began to stir. Apparently the flip side of my hopelessness was apathy, and I truly was an apathetic person for awhile. I hoped it would be permanent.
I should have left well alone. So perhaps I can be beaten into hopeless bliss again, but in the meanwhile I must care. I'm driven.
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