The slow descent into social anarchy.

The slow descent into social anarchy.

"My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it’s always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form." -Timothy Leary

There is going to be no health care reform this year, just as there will not be any meaningful financial reform. Things are already too far gone, our system has broke. There will be no increase in taxes on the rich because the propaganda machines have convinced some easily influenced poor that it is Anti-American to tax the rich at a higher rate, and increasing the budget deficit will be out of the question. It's been well over a century since Sigmund Freud first started delving into the human unconscious. Now Corporations and Government (now one and the same thanks to lobbying) have perfected the art of social manipulation to the point of in-sustainability.

Republicans are now in a self-destructive death spiral, and the Democrats are poised to take single-party rule of the country. Republicans would rather burn the place down then let the next generation have it, and Democrats couldn't govern their way out of a box. The Republican decent into extremism is alienating much of their party and driving the moderates out of the party. Fox news is feeding a self-reinforcing suicide of the conservative movement. What I don't understand is if they are doing it purely for the profit motive, or if they truly wish to bring down the Republican party and take this country to single party rule.

No one has the time or energy to develop a truly informed view of more then a handful of chosen fields, everything we think we know is based off of someone else's opinion and someone else perspective. Once people isolate themselves to only self-reinforcing information they start believing in a world of their own creation in a process the military calls incestuous amplification.

"Increasingly, we’re developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it." -Alan Watts.

People fear change, but things are changing now faster then they every have before. However; this is not the kind of change that Government can bring, or something Government can prevent. The ruling class has shown an unabashed willingness to tap into this very dangerous building fear for purely political motivations. Over the past few decades the Republicans have become more and more dependent on an increasingly militant political base by feeding this fear. They feed the fear, but they don't control the fear. Fear is a powerful emotion to govern a country with. As the rate of change continues to increase (most likely in the form of another major financial failure) this fear will boil over into self-destruction.

America was so successful because it was an extremely progressive nation. The founding fathers where all progressives. Public Schools, Libraries, Universities, and Civil Government where all very progressive ideas. America was a shining example of progress until the 1960's, when we got scared. Progress is the endeavor to seek truth to improve the human condition. Medical progress as done a lot to improve our quality of life just as social progress has done a lot to improve the quality of all our lives. Now we refuse to research drugs that could cure cancer because they couldn't patent it and make a fortune, and refuse medical care to more and more of the poor. Scientific progress has given us an amazing insight into what we are, how the Universe formed, how we came to be, and if the Boogie Man really exits. Now we suppress this information because it forces people to re-evaluate who we think we are.

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality."
— Michael Ellner

All progress is of course evil in Judeo-Christian belief. Humanity is eating the fruit from the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. They believe this is a path that will enable us to find our own divinity:

Genesis 3

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

They want to take this country, the world, into Armageddon. We now know that Bush told France that we wanted to invade Iraq for Religious reasons.

“Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit?" ~J.R.R. Tolkien