so...a civic America never existed • history reveals again & again • but their was a time when you or I walked these torn streets, taking our lives in our own hands like any man does in a world of men raised by men, some whacko, some well-meant; lives in our own hands with happenstance as it’s always been, as it should be in a world of not so subtle differences • made the alley behind the bar more interesting, didn’t it? • anyway, …we spoke differently then about America and liberty and the drive to the grocery store, and it’s become noticeable • differently as little as a decade ago, while on a governmental level certain protections to our liberties existed that not even the highest office had the ~ gulp ~ audacity to fuck with much, but now look-out! those protections are being gradually removed from the books while you & I row on about regime changes & pragmatism in the face o global change • I cannot be anything but…romantic…about notions that could ascend us
the civic Americana in my mind, that sense of the meaningful artifact that is the America my father touted until the day he died, can still be found in some actions from the bottom to the top ~~ even if it was seldom ever in the true actions o those in the highest, most prestigious, civil servant offices of crime-without-the-fear-of-punishment then & now @ it’s apex of impunity, like a cut vein • the civic Americana in my mind, that sense of the meaningful residue that is the America my father touted, can still be found in the best actions of the citizenry: you & I see it every other day in print on the dbis, on the blogs, in good films & excellent songs, in your neighbor across the street who sees you clearing a fallen tree, & is happy to amble over with a second chainsaw • there was a time b4 supreme policy psychosis allowed for supposed noblepersons to deny their oath of office, when the richest did not need to cripple the middle in order to claim greatness & egocentric love for money • there were checks & balances at work, regulated energy, the AFL-CIO had far less to report on with regards to the chasm between employer/employee viability • before the better businessmen joined forses with the lowest of the low cut-throat raiders and pirates and megalomaniacs alike, there were those in office who wrote laws to allow for the prosperity of all walks • even after the railroads were built by money and might on the backs of grassroot people; even after prohibition allowed for organized crime/government/& big banks to be in cahoots for illegal booze profits • we were all taxed but not mega taxed & insurance premiumed (gutted), energy billed, & depressed into the death-spiral creative purgatory we find ourselves arguing in the midst of today • yep, it’s worse elsewhere, but it’s fucked-up here, been getting this way for two decades, give or take a moment every so often when somebody doesn’t feel slighted
the objet d'art, the Americana that I pine for, was not ideal but it seemed to exist there when MTV was an infant • before the need to sell breakneck technology and the sickest bastard science & weaponry for an epic war between dogmas (amid the aid of assholes with clout) had opened the floodgates for the most affluent to renounce honorable statesmanhood for sake of some vile greed mongering blueprint for time & crowned heads of family • I just don’t get why it’s so hard to grasp the common sense reality that we can expand only so far with our capital system: The…rich can be too rich and the poor can be too poor and those in the middle of it can be too strapped to know liberty • when I speak of something optimistically, or mournfully nostalgic of a jiggy time not too long ago, I’m not speaking idealistically or even naively, but with a blaring precautionary bleat that screams national death for sake o the superrich is a scam not worthy of anybody calling themselves people • We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect....
& it may not seem like it but I enjoy reading your clear and concise additions to dbis philosophy, 101
