Fascinating really how much wishful thinking guides us.
1) The Marxist who leads the party that is likely to win the next round of the Greek elections has apparently persuaded the people that they can throw away the bailout package and stay in the Euro (leave the Euro and get stuck with a junk currency that would even make the Rouble under Yeltsin look a worthwhile bet? Of course we don't want that!). Sorry, folks it ain't gonna happen!
2) Mitt Romney will have Americans believe that with his policies (including massive government cutbacks equalling mass layoffs in the public sector, massive tax cuts for the wealthy and huge increase in defence spending) will create half-a-million new jobs a month (well if he is talking burger flippers only, he might get halfway there) and cut the deficit as well. Check anyone with an understanding of basic arithmetic and a neutral perspective on economics. It ain't gonna happen in either case (see the UK if you want an example of reality at work).
3) Many people will go to work tomorrow convinced that they are doing a brilliant job and the firm that they work for could never get rid of them. Meanwhile the firm is checking out how that job could be done for 5% of the money in China. Job security? Even if you are doing a brilliant job (check the company bottom line, and don't think that company loyalty counts for anything either), it does not exist!
4) Well I could always start my own company and become a millionaire in no time at all. Yes, I am deeply intellectual and I absolutely hate selling! Deeply intellectual and you believe that? Only 6% of new business start-ups ever become profitable, so start checking up how bankruptcy works. Even people who like selling rarely make millions, the success stories are the exception that prove the rule. Next.
5) If we protest and riot non-stop outside the banking institutions, the banks will collapse (possible), the evils of capitalism will disappear (possible), and a better, fairer world will follow. Dream on - explain to me please how this will work. What I see in this case is the rich reduced to poverty - ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE! I dislike the way things work at the moment, but resolution of the issues by simply destroying wealth seems so far removed from reality of how things work ....
6) Well I hate the current government (fair enough), so I will vote for the opposition - things are bound to get better (ask anyone in Greece how that works, or maybe in the UK for that matter). Two times bad equals bad either way!
7) Well this life has been ****, and it is never going to get any better (yeah, well for once I can understand what you are saying), but at least the next life will be better. Huh? Well I hate to disappoint you, but this is the one chance that you get. The next life may exist in your imagination, and that unfortunately is where it belongs. There are absolutely no rational grounds to believe that anything will follow. Your imagination, remember, is merely a part of your mortal physical body, it does not exist outside it!
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