Well you can either laugh or rage.
It's pretty much all over for this country in its current form anyway. We used to be a republic bound by the constitution. But the constitution is a dead letter that both parties wipe their feet on. We have a secret police that spies on everyone. An unelected bureaucracy that answers to no one. Does any of this sound familiar? The powerful and elite have forgotten that Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and Orwell's 1984 were warnings and not instruction manuals.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those
200 or so years, these nations have progressed through the
following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage--Alexander Fraser Tyler
We're well into the "dependence" phase of the cycle and there's not much left to do but watch the whole circus burn down and laugh at the clowns as they go up in puffs of hot air and fecal material.
Bring the pain. Maybe when people get enough of what they voted for - GOOD and HARD - they'll decide it's finally past due to water the tree of liberty.
It all has to burn.
Until then, may as well just pass the popcorn and have fun watching the show.
It's pretty much all over for this country in its current form anyway. We used to be a republic bound by the constitution. But the constitution is a dead letter that both parties wipe their feet on. We have a secret police that spies on everyone. An unelected bureaucracy that answers to no one. Does any of this sound familiar? The powerful and elite have forgotten that Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and Orwell's 1984 were warnings and not instruction manuals.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those
200 or so years, these nations have progressed through the
following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage--Alexander Fraser Tyler
We're well into the "dependence" phase of the cycle and there's not much left to do but watch the whole circus burn down and laugh at the clowns as they go up in puffs of hot air and fecal material.
Bring the pain. Maybe when people get enough of what they voted for - GOOD and HARD - they'll decide it's finally past due to water the tree of liberty.
It all has to burn.
Until then, may as well just pass the popcorn and have fun watching the show.