Prisoner of the Present


1. a person whose entire worldview is shaped by current events, stumbling along from one crisis to another.
2. someone without a historical perspective or hope for the future.
3. the mindset that causes “knee-jerk” reactions to almost any kind of social or economic change.
4. a state of perpetual panic about “the world today.”
larry says the u.s. economy will never recover no matter what happens in washington — he’s a typical prisoner of the present.

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