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04/24/2008
Trying to make common sense
The tyrant at our gate,
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It's odd, with all the protections that our Constitution provides against man or party becoming despotic, it's happened anyway, and, even with the main stream media's weak performance, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of reliable reports and investigations that reveal corruption, collusion and coercion that are summarily ignored, or worse, these acts of cowardice and greed are extolled as being patriotic and the right thing to do.
>I don't mind that people live in an alternate reality, hell, I've lived in them myself, but I still knew that the larger reality, the one I didn't create, was dominate. I could tweak it a little this way or that, but the rules were set and even if I didn't like them, I knew I was bound by them.
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So the question is: how do the ones in charge, however that's defined, reconcile their behavior enough to believe that, even though it goes against every established American principle, that their way is the right way? And -- why do the ones that they convince to agree with them or that agree on their own not to oppose what they know is wrong, reconcile that?
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The truth is much uglier than I want to believe. There is such a chasm of class in this country today, that no one can, and, few even bother to try to, bridge it. The lower classes are use to having to struggle, the middle class is beginning to understand in degrees, but the upper class need not give it a thought.
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These are huge generalizations and there's a huge difference between millionaire and billionaires but the millionaires, being closer the edge of the chasm, fight even harder than the billionaires for more, more, more.
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Nothing trumps creature comfort and insuring that your particular genetic line survives. Nothing trumps being made to feel superior by virtue of wealth, position and power, being made to feel that you are a real, special individual. It's an irresistible lure while shouting that life is unfair or difficult falls on deaf ears.
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The media has pushed back the tipping point. Their siren song of mass delusion keeps us in check, keeps us at each other's throat instead of amassing and concentrating the same power that made the French revolution seek justice at the aristocracy's throat.
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That kind of justice seems so barbaric, so removed and, although Thomas Jefferson wrote that he supported the French revolution, we cannot, would not, today, use that same barbarism. Our barbarism has to be in words not in deeds, such a long struggle to reclaim what we once took for granted. Gene
O! Ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom has been haunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! recieve the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. --Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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