I am here
To tell you all that you are idiots.
I've been on this planet for some 30 odd years, and it certainly has been odd. I’ve seen blowjobs make major political news and banks squander away the livelihoods of Americans. No one can be patriotic these days without wondering what happened to the country they grew up in, and every generation hearkens back to a golden age when things were better for everyone. Sometimes it seems difficult to believe that any later generation will have any chance to enjoy two weeks of vacation and health insurance, let alone retirement or a shrinking national debt.
"So why am I an idiot?"
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| This is my "pondering" face |
Because you let it happen, you dumb bastard! It is the American way, or at least we have let it become so. Pass the buck on to someone else, usually (these days) a generation that hasn’t been born yet. Our “democratic-republican” way of life has lead us astray.
When our country was founded, it was under the assumption that all of our citizens would remain as patriotic and involved as our founding fathers were, and that was a stupid assumption. Our “founding fathers” are icons, myths, and legends that we have created from romantic memories of days gone by. They were men of great stature, land-owners (which means something much different today than it meant then), and of great financial worth (by the day’s standards). Our founding fathers were a rather close-knit group of men with common financial interests who happened to share a philosophy. We have kept their ideals, but we have fallen far from their methods. The public is mislead by media focus on individual celebrity politicians and manufactured controversy while all sorts of madness goes on at local levels - where the politics are almost unseen and the consequences so ubiquitous that ordinary people don't notice until things get really bad.
When our country was founded, it was under the assumption that all of our citizens would remain as patriotic and involved as our founding fathers were, and that was a stupid assumption. Our “founding fathers” are icons, myths, and legends that we have created from romantic memories of days gone by. They were men of great stature, land-owners (which means something much different today than it meant then), and of great financial worth (by the day’s standards). Our founding fathers were a rather close-knit group of men with common financial interests who happened to share a philosophy. We have kept their ideals, but we have fallen far from their methods. The public is mislead by media focus on individual celebrity politicians and manufactured controversy while all sorts of madness goes on at local levels - where the politics are almost unseen and the consequences so ubiquitous that ordinary people don't notice until things get really bad.
The decision-makers of today's America may still be a close-knit group of citizens, but they seem to me to be mostly out-of-touch with the pulse of the people...both ideologically as well as in more immediately recognizable physical contexts.
I believe that the potential for a "Golden Age" exists within the ideological structure - that's why I love this country - but our current political landscape has serious entropic leanings.
My fear is that the Spirit responsible for this nation has left its people and we are too stupid to realize it.
My hope is that We the People can reconnect with this Spirit, and work toward making this country into that ideal we've always hoped it could be, to the nation that we've always thought of it as.
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