It’s getting dark and my thoughts turn to the older Empire in the Apple TV show, Dusk.
The one that is too old to have any sex scenes despite the actor still being an able age.
The painter and documentarian. The elder and wisest of the three. The only one of the three that wants to look to the past in order to understand the now and try to correct the future.
We have to respect the past. It is a great teacher.
However, the past is not a messiah. It is not to be worshipped.
I’m looking at you, Founding Fathers. You flawed lot of idiots that people claim one more than we ever will.
When they were dealing with a few thousand people, muskets, and no computers, never mind internet, maybe.
This is not the world they thought it would be.
I don’t know when that world died, but it is at last since the days of Reagan. Reagan’s policies fucked us a lot more than we realized at the time.
9/11 doesn’t happen without the Reagan influence. Of course, there’s other blame to go around, and it’s not even all American blame, but if you take Reagan out of the equation, the Towers are still standing.
Those who claim its liberal views that have caused our loss of freedoms since 9/11 seem to have forgotten that the U.S. has a Republican president and the UK had a wishy-washy Prime Minister that would do anything to stay in favour with the U.S.
It used to be that most of us recognized that decisiveness was simply a political tool, but Reagan learned to hide it. Since that time, the battle has gone from international to internal within counties.
Is it any wonder that we’re in a death spiral when the right wing tries to stop the left wing and vice versa?
Each side claims they are doing thing for some majority that doesn’t exist rather than realizing that it is the alleged elites that they claim are on the other side who are pitting left against right for profit and political gain.
In the U.S., the obvious example of the political problem is why you have millionaire politicians fund raising from poor families for support. North main parties do it, so stop pointing fingers.
Maybe that’s how the problems get solved.
What if we, the people, stop finding them, the politicians?
Maybe, instead of providing for politicians, we donate that money to hospitals or schools.
Imagine the absolute damage that would do politically, and how much better educated we might become.
