America Dreaming

Well, here we are in the United States: living in a time of the ascendance of a social order that glorifies greed and selfishness, that revels in ignorance and defies science in favor of clever but inane conspiracy theories. It is a time of Dunning-Kruger exemplars gleefully, self-righteously preparing to lay their agendas on all of us. False ‘prophets’ and their followers abound.

Every civilization has had its catastrophic seasons, its lunatic leaders. Some have recovered and continued; some have crashed and ended or changed irrevocably into something else.

I wonder what made the difference between those destinies.

I wonder if integrity, ethics, intelligence, compassion… all those marks of the mature personality, will assert themselves again and determine the direction of America. I wonder if, when Reality and consequences come in, how many of those who are feeling so clever now will grasp the lesson they’ve set up for themselves.

So this is what the United States is now. This is the choice most voters made for whatever rationales they adopted to make it okay to put a man like this in office. But this is not all that this country is.

I am seeing it as a kind of family where the kids have been indulged for so long, they think everything is up to them. Lots of children but only two parents to rein them in. Lots of immature, self-centered, ignorant, inexperienced kids lording it over just a few mature and sensible authority figures. But those kids with all their delusions are up against a greater authority: Reality. And Reality has no soft spots when it comes to dealing out consequences, the whole family is going to feel it: There are lessons for everyone in this scenario.