Via the O’Reilly Radar, this article from The Boston Globe is well worth a read:

Depression 2009: What would it look like?

“Instead of dusty farm families, the icon of a modern-day depression might be something as subtle as the flickering glow of millions of televisions glimpsed through living room windows, as the nation’s unemployed sit at home filling their days with the cheapest form of distraction available.”

Now, that really is depressing!

Surely there is a lean-forward alternative to that bleak scenario?  

We might be drowning in financial deficits, but there is still a cognitive surplus, isn’t there?