nothing's perfect, nothing's forever and ever, and nothing's guaranteed

nothing's perfect, nothing's forever and ever, and nothing's guaranteed

There is some good news after all. Whether america is dying or has long ago grown cold and stiff, the living must go on, Right? We can pray or hope or just plain believe without any guarantees, the climax isnt in our lifetime but the longer it goes on, the less secure, safe, or healthy we will be.

I'm talking, not done talking. Unfortunately, there are utopian ideas floating around but they all revolve around way too much money being needed to even generate a beginning. I've long been proponent for saying, if you want a revolution you better have an idea of what you're going to do during and afterwards. America has lived too long trying to keep the revolution beginning in the late seventeen hundreds. The founding fathers are much like Moses, holding up their divine and secular notions of what and how people should live by and for, when the modern world of rapid technological change overwhelms ordinary people who, no matter how close to middle class living they come, cannot keep up.

Maybe it's the middle class that suffers the most, whereby lower income people  (who will probably be the real survivors as it comes crashing down) don't have the funds, barely enough to pay the monthly bill for that one necessary item, the phone, the rest of the middle class wrestling with costs as well, but in order to truly be able to function, they have rapid technological change to deal with. They're going to play the game of paying to go to mars, fight the good fights, accept the economic truths (there's hell to pay) and the economic lies (work hard and reap the rewards in heaven).

Mosaic law gave us gods wrath, the bill of rights gave us slavery (and all of its future ramifications such as capitalism, the same ideas, except for the chains being locked inside our heads rather than being shackled to the mansion). Just like the former slaves were given a fake freedom to entice them, modern civ relies on "dreams, hopes, aspirations and ambition" to bring us to their marketplace to sell ourselves. It's all voluntary now. Yes, of course, no matter where we are on god's green earth, we have to eat, sleep, be sheltered, and dance a little, that's a given, but since time immemorial, who makes you work has been one of the basic questions of human need and any economic class. It used to be everyone worked for themselves with the conscious or unconscious understanding that any individual couldn't get all of what they needed by themselves. 

Now, every individual doesn't have to know where the food comes from nor the water, but neither can they trust that the food isn't poisoned or the water isn't toxic. Many of us can now live (garner what we both need and what we think we must have). 

And it gets worse every generation.