Humans have been doing this forever. This is what they are good at - finding new ways to survive. But lately, in the last 500 years or so (in the Modern World) this has become more difficult.
This is now our most important job - recognizing how difficult life has become. A job most people do not even want to recognize.
By most people, I am referring to at least 80 percent of the population, and maybe as high as 99 percent. Which makes them feel they must be doing things right. When in fact, they are doing things wrong.
I will become more explicit, and speak of my life in the scenic little coffee town of Orosi, Costa Rice.
The buses that used to bring tourists to see our church (the only one to survive the earthquakes that are common here) are becoming less frequent. The weak economy has become almost nonexistent. Starting a business here now is impossible.
The American who started a Real Estate company here is just barely alive. without a hair on his head, I have had some serious medical problems myself, and have used the National Health service (CAJA) frequently.
There used to be many foreigners here, attending the language school or living in homes that they bought or built. The house I am living in now was owned by an American couple that operated a vegetarian restaurant here. The husband is now buried in the cemetery just up the road, and the wife and her daughters now live in Seatle.
Orosi is no longer a good place for foreigners to live, and reversing this trend is impossible.
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