if people started acting rationally in this country, the economic system would collapse. the stock market remains aloft mainly because of irrational consumerism. Nevermind the war, go about your lives as normal. Shop. Be happy. The comforts you once demanded are now mandatory. How did you change your life after 9-11? What can you do? Well, whatever you do, don't stopped shopping and spending money of the stock market, which is increasely supporting retirement funding, will go into the shitter. Could you imagine that average bloated American in the Great Depression? One day a real rain is going to wash all th e scum off the streets.