I like this Barbie shot I did a while ago.
It speaks to that early 1960's
world of plenty we blew.
I really miss hope fun food, and electricity.
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Today is the Eve of Christmas Eve. Luke 2:9-12And, lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about the...
No doubt about it, we blew it! We blew it BIG time!
ReplyDeletePretty much.
ReplyDeleteThe world was our oyster. And we were going to make it a better place not just for ourselves but for everyone. Vast vistas of wonderful possibilities were opening before us.
ReplyDeleteThen we ran out of gas.
No,...we had gas.
ReplyDeletePlenty.
Our owners decided a world without want was bad for business.
So they deliberately destroyed History's largest middle class.
The world-wide ripple effect was exactly what they wanted.
These two propositions are not mutually exclusive. True, the Establishment *did* decide to do away with middle class prosperity, and have thoroughly achieved that objective. They also stamped out the counterculture. Remember when the press had a field day smearing the hippie rebellion through a spurious connection with Charlie Manson? Not an accident. And it was very effective.
ReplyDeleteBut it is also the case that the USA hit its peak domestic oil production in 1970, and became abjectly dependent on foreign sources thereafter. That underlies our economic and structural decay.
The only upside is that the current elites are losing control. The process of their replacement by some other socioeconomic configuration will be messy.
Mind near exhaustion still makes its final futile movement towards that "way out or round or through the impasse".
ReplyDeleteThat is the utmost now that mind can do. And this, its last expiring thrust, is to demonstrate that the door closes upon us for evermore.
There is no way out, or round or through.
-H. G. Wells, "Mind at the End of Its Tether", 1945
Messy.
ReplyDeleteThe struggle already in progress is between a hostile tribal violent white populism, and a Progressive multi-ethnic egalitarian populism.
It will indeed be untidy.
It will be a draw. It'll end in a kind of unofficial, at first, cultural partition.
If we're lucky.
The sweaty cursing hateful rubes can have their guns Jebus illiteracy the swamps the deserts, and cows.
The human beings will get Civilization.
If we're not lucky we will exist in a sort of Handmaids Tale environment on a really bad day.
If they're not lucky it will be like the first weeks after the Khmer Rouge took Cambodia. Centuries of scores will be settled.
It will be revolutionary Year One,...again.
Their flag,...a stack of skulls.
Either way in the above circumstances.
Few,...rather very few will be having a nice day.