A shit storm is coming, I can feel it in my bones. We will turn rapidly into a third world nation but unlike those nations so many of us look down upon, we won't even have national health care. our citizens are already dying for lack of health care. many of those incapable of taking care of themselves usually because of severe mental illness wander the streets of cities aimlessly, dying on the concrete from the cold. Most of us walk by thinking, “why don’t they get a job”. Everywhere I've been out west this summer - 14,000 miles and 13 states - real estate agents mention the "third house" phenomenon, usually shaking their heads. The ultra rich have to put their vast wealth somewhere. we virtually have no independent journalism any longer and frankly no one pays attention to the little bit of information that is out there. Like moths who assume the colors of poisonous moths to protect themselves, our undereducated and severely under informed masses call themselves "republicans" in an obvious effort to affect the trappings of status when in fact the force they so ally themselves with works steadily and cynically to destroy them. I am 47 years old and have seen this happen right before my own eyes. The cynicism of our so called elected representatives reaches such heights one has to look up so far it can strain your neck – just look at this war and this blatantly Orwellian “war on terror” – my God man you could take whole pages out of 1984 and I would defy your to see any difference from the present state of our nation. We even have Soma which the masses can take to alleviate the natural, human agony of living in a vacant, materialist society under enslaving debt, having no meaningful human work and increasingly shallow relationships – no problem pop a Soma – I mean Prozac.
And this very much is an issue of consciousness because we have created all this ourselves with our consciousness. Aliens didn’t come down from outer space and force this upon us. We voted for Bush, twice. Hitler was elected. Walmart is the largest employer in the country: if you do not recognize that as the headlights of a train coming down the tunnel right at you, then your fearless or wealthy.
If aliens did come down here what the hell would they think with our wealthy elite buying third homes which they virtually never set foot in, while others among us die from laying on concrete out in the cold or lack of health care? I think they would ask, “where did you humans get the idea that taking care of each other should be based on this “for profit free market system of yours”? In every advanced civilization throughout the universe it is understood that the strong take care of the weak – this is one of the most basic tenants of advanced civilization. Only the crudest of creatures prey upon their own weak members.