Rebecca Costa

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing…. Jon Stewart at the Rally for sanity.

That's a perfect description of what's going on.  It's one reason I'm not blogging about the election as I did last time around during the presidential election, when I wrote a blog daily, here or on the Huffington Post, or both.

Sometimes screechy, sometimes preachy, I don't really know if I changed any minds (other than my own husband's ).

Though I don't agree with anything about the Tea Party, I get it.   It's how I felt when George Bush was president.  Frustrated.

Maybe it's the way we all feel.  Even more, surveys prove many voters don't know what they want; they just know what they don't want.

President Obama ran on the words "Change we can believe in."

I still believe in Obama, maybe because I never expected him to change things overnight.   Apparently many people expected miracles.  It's the nature of the times; we're living in an age when we expect change at the speed of light—because that's the way change has come recently.

But the reality is far different, not only for one man, but for mankind.

Once we begin making new discoveries and inventing new technologies and procedures in picoseconds, the human brain — which requires millions of years to develop new capabilities — can't help but fall behind. The two clocks are incompatible, so it is inevitable that a gap will occur.

The first sign of that gap is gridlock. We become unable to solve our greatest threats. Leaders and experts fumble while our problems exponentially grow in magnitude and peril.

Rebecca Costa, author of The Watchman's Rattle

If ever there was a perfect example of gridlock, just turn on the news.

Her book is subtitled, Thinking our Way out of Extinction. If you read it, it's pretty clear that our civilization is gridlocked and on its way to collapse.

Still, like Costa, I remain hopeful that we have the potential to come together and think our way out before it's too late.

Meanwhile one thing we can all do: exercise your right to vote.