Thursday, November 04, 2004

Collective depression

Still coming to terms with seeing Bush for four more years, as I join the rest of the world in collective depression.

If there is such a thing as collective depression, then the circumstances of the election are just right to encourage it. At least the scandal in Florida four years ago gave people something to focus on; there was a battle to be raged. This time, despite some lingering uncertainty over the final result in Ohio, there isn't the consolation of injustice, of having someone to blame. Depression is not a very focused thing and yesterday's mood was universal only in that it allowed people to group their individual reasons for cheerlessness around the huge disappointment of the election result...there was a unified sense yesterday morning that the prospect of having Bush back in business made all the small, crap things in one's life worse.

Woke up this mornin', got the election blues - Guardian

Posted by Anonymous @ 11/04/2004 02:58:00 PM