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[spiral78]

Yeah, I'm sure it's true. And it's definitely depressing...from so many angles

It's really a shame that the economy has tanked (well worth a thread - or even a forum- of its own as a topic).

and it's also a shame that so many people (and such a huge percentage of them are Americans) made poor financial decisions

and it's too bad that many of them will turn to teaching and other stuff abroad, without any real vocation/interest/desire to either teach or to really get into foreign cultures

It's truly depressing on many levels.

[rusmeister]

I like this Pogo strip where one time, one of the characters says to another. "Don't take life so seriously. It ain't permanent, nohow." For me, that's where faith helps me see above the stormy seas of recessions and wars - reminders that this life is temporary. (We could hijack the thread into the linguistic meaning of words like modern (see 'moda', fashion) and contemporary (with the time, or, uh, temporary).

That which is not eternal is eternally out of date.
CSL

Hint: if you check out GKC's great book (he has a lot of them): "What's Wrong With the World", one of the themes is the economic domination of man - it goes a long way towards explaining all of this globalism, 'free trade' and other nonsense that is gradually impoverishing the entire world (and, by the way, driving teachers overseas).
I think it is especially useful to know who Hudge and Gudge are. Read this (it's only a couple of paragraphs):
http://chesterton.org/discover/lectures/16whatswrong.html

And the book itself (in the public domain):
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/whats_wrong.html