I liked this bit from Peggy Noonan’s latest column.
”[T]he economy isn’t the only reason for our unease. There’s more to it. People sense something slipping away, a world receding, not only an economic one but a world of old structures, old ways and assumptions. People don’t talk about this much because it’s too big, but I suspect more than a few see themselves, deep down, as “the designated mourner,” from the title of the Wallace Shawn play.”
—Peggy Noonan from “There’s No Pill for This Kind of Depression”
Wall Street Journal, March 13 2009
The column is a little depressing for a Friday just before spring… and very “Ecclesiastes-ical” (not a word but a reference). I feel it too, and several of my emailers and commenters here at PTBC have expressed the same sentiments.
I actually think Peggy Noonan chickened out a bit in her column. She’s very pensive and I think she knows more than she lets on. I think she could name names and explain reasons, but simply doesn’t want to appear too political.
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