"I'm having trouble feeling appropriately bleak" about the current recession, Greg Brooks says. Yes, things are bad, but 7% unemployment is a far cry from 25% in the Great Depression and well below 10% during the 1980-82 downturn. The longest economic slump since World War II lasted 16 months; as we apparently just discovered, we're already 12 months into this one. We're poorer on paper than we were five years ago, but we're still miles ahead of our grandparents