Has it already begun? Is American Revolution #2 already afoot?! Should I be doing something other than what I am doing to speed social reform in the good ‘ol U.S. of A.?! Have I gone on record yet – to say that the White Man will make his last stand in Australia?
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young did a song (what now seems a very long time ago) called Winchester Cathedral with a-couple-of-lines that have stuck with me for that very long time: “So many people have died in the name of Christ that I can’t believe it all, AND, so many people have lied in the name of Christ that I can’t believe it all.” I guess any revolution will need to have God on its side.
But I worry that my predictive powers are failing me – because it looks like Obama will get the Democratic nomination – unless there is an assassination attempt in the works (don’t worry Hillary – I was writing about it well before you mentioned it) – maybe my timing is just-a-bit-off – because when I saw a picture of Obama’s Daddy in today’s paper – I STILL can’t believe that this guy will attain the American presidency – these will be the family pictures of an American president – a guy with a Kenyan’s arm around him? Talk about the slave trade…
So, if Obama is dead – the one fellow who might have initiated the next, true American Revolution – who else would carry the torch? McCain and Hillary are all about perpetuating the status quo – carrying on business as usual. So…might we see fiefdoms emerging? Chiefs and bosses of various sectors?? Will roving bands of marauders rob from the still rich and give to-the-poor??? Should I still be stockpiling canned food and ammunition????
But, perhaps the revolution is already afoot! As more-and-more-of-us tolerate less-and-less-bullshit from the people cutting our checks (or, cutting our jobs [for that matter]) – we’re moving to that stratified family model (that I studied in gerontology class) – where 4-and-5 generations live together under-one-roof: to make sure ends meet and the roof stays over-their-heads. Perhaps it’s happening?
I just wanna be part-of-it!
I was not aware enough to truly experience THE revolution at a meaningful level. And each subsequent generation has been boring (to my mind)…when compared to the 60s. But who is interested in doing the 60s thang anymore? No one…except for a few strange, isolated persons – housed mainly in Cali.
Is this thang going to come with a bang? Or will it ease in as a whimper?? The bang would be quite exciting – the whimper might be the reality, unfortunately. Americans have had their heads-up-their-asses for so long – I doubt we can muster a star-spangled spanking on the tyrants who profess to be the custodians of what was once the Land of Promise.
As Fish asked (Fish is one of my favorite poets [of early Marillion fame]):
Where are the prophets? Where are the visionaries? Where are the poets?
There is no clear clarion call to battle…too many heads been stuck up too many asses for too long…I don’t think I we’re going to get much of a revolution…so, perhaps I can skip it…