As I contemplated how the United States got so fucked up – I tossed around a few ideas:
1) We’ve always been this fucked up – being founded by Malcontents;
2) Christianity has fucked us up; or,
3) The Viet Nam War and the sex, drugs and R & R that became its flotsam and jetsam — have contributed to a country on-the-brink of economic enslavement.
The Chinese keep pushing for the world currency to become something they dictate and control – and who can blame them? I mean, how long was anyone going to let US live off the largesse of the world? If anyone can boast largesse – it’s the Chinese and the Indians – combining for a third of the world’s population. If the Chinese get their wish – our dollars will become plugged nickels.
I tell anyone who will listen — that the Western (and Eastern) Plan is to re-colonize Africa. Africa is still pretty third world, and, is ripe for renewed exploitation. I think the Dark Continent is destined to buy the decadent West, and the hungry East – a few more decades. South Americans like guerilla war too much to roll over for anyone, anymore. The South Americans have also learned from history – while the Africans have grown accustomed to slavery.
Sex still makes the world go round…kinda, maybe. We’ve created enough diversions over-the-years, however – so that sex isn’t a mainstay for the acquisition of power and control (at least among God-fearing folk). Now while R & R might account for some pretty bizarre behavior at times – there are too many musical genres appreciated by too many different people for one form of music to have managed to fuck US up.
That leaves drugs. I would venture to say – that when I returned to the U.S. in 1974 – 80% of the U.S. population was anaesthetizing itself. I have seen nothing that would diminish this 80% figure. In fact, the pharmaceutical companies have always attempted for nothing short of 100% success. We know that Bill Clinton did a lot more than just inhale; Dubya reportedly snorted Scarface volumes of coke; and Obama has admitted to his own drug experimentation. And these are the privileged presidents: You’ve got to believe that the-rest-of-us need something to get us through the waking hours.
So we have become a nation of drugged-out zombies – zombies who have gone into debt to maintain the illusion that we are still alive. I don’t know about you – but not only do I not trust mothers (or sons-of-bitches for that matter) but I definitely don’t trust mothers on mothers’ little helpers.
I think Bob Dylan captured it nicely in “All Along the Watchtower”: with the lines discussing how businessmen drank his wine – and smoked his herb. I mean what other logical explanation can explain the financial meltdown in the U.S. – but idiotic decisions made “under the influence”? Greed obviously continues to play a role – but “greed” doesn’t do justice to the idiocy that has become the American marketplace – where men mortgage their homes to get the cash to impress women – which some how brings us back to sex…and maybe a little rock and roll…