So painful to read! We must be the same age(s). I can barely look back without wanting to cry. But we are here where we are…we can only go forward and keep our intentions intact.
Your post is on point Lee, and lacking in confidence begets the same. The time you cherish was foreshadowed by many victories which carried us forward and, for whatever reason, our leaders can no longer find a victory if it slapped them in the face. And, unironically, they seem unilaterally determined to do just the opposite.
We don’t need a National Consensus to endure, we have people, place, geography, language and culture.
The culture need no more be identical than our accents.
Our geography bounds us as well as protects us.
The consensus you refer to would probably be called The New Deal or frankly The Liberal Consensus. That’s what Victory- over the rest of America- looked like. It’s over. Nor was such consensus normal, nor natural, nor did it lack enforcement and censorship (The Fairness Act for example).
It also needed an enemy and the enemy went away. It’s not healthy without an enemy.
That consensus shattered in the 1960s. It just had enough left to survive the USSRs demise.
As for the paradise you describe, it seems in paradise man rots, beginning with his soul and mind.
Certainly we decayed. This is a trough following a peak, do not despair.
Also you should consider we’re a gerontocracy from top to bottom-the voters are too old and so is our leadership and management at every level.
We’re also a matriarchy - well an attempted and failed matriarchy, I am unaware of successful ones.
What should we do?
Recognize we’re a Federation since the Iroquois, that we don’t need nor can we succeed at Empire.
…. And go to space, make babies and on these 2 points kill all who get in the way.
So painful to read! We must be the same age(s). I can barely look back without wanting to cry. But we are here where we are…we can only go forward and keep our intentions intact.
Your post is on point Lee, and lacking in confidence begets the same. The time you cherish was foreshadowed by many victories which carried us forward and, for whatever reason, our leaders can no longer find a victory if it slapped them in the face. And, unironically, they seem unilaterally determined to do just the opposite.
Superb work here. Thank you.
Despair is the Devil’s last temptation.
We don’t need a National Consensus to endure, we have people, place, geography, language and culture.
The culture need no more be identical than our accents.
Our geography bounds us as well as protects us.
The consensus you refer to would probably be called The New Deal or frankly The Liberal Consensus. That’s what Victory- over the rest of America- looked like. It’s over. Nor was such consensus normal, nor natural, nor did it lack enforcement and censorship (The Fairness Act for example).
It also needed an enemy and the enemy went away. It’s not healthy without an enemy.
That consensus shattered in the 1960s. It just had enough left to survive the USSRs demise.
As for the paradise you describe, it seems in paradise man rots, beginning with his soul and mind.
Certainly we decayed. This is a trough following a peak, do not despair.
Also you should consider we’re a gerontocracy from top to bottom-the voters are too old and so is our leadership and management at every level.
We’re also a matriarchy - well an attempted and failed matriarchy, I am unaware of successful ones.
What should we do?
Recognize we’re a Federation since the Iroquois, that we don’t need nor can we succeed at Empire.
…. And go to space, make babies and on these 2 points kill all who get in the way.
Go to space, make babies and on these 2 points kill all who get in the way.
Let us have consensus, Amen.