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Article I:
It is time to
declare that we have had enough of
keeping up with the Joneses
When is enough, enough? That is a
question that seems to be screaming
quietly through the collective psyche of
Western culture, yet so few people are
brave enough to put it to voice. No one
wants to rock the boat. Let’s face it,
the waters are choppy enough that it
seems it is all we can do to keep H.M.S.
America afloat. Sometimes it seems that
every facet of Western culture is
spiraling out of control. Every change
leads to another hundred changes and the
only way humankind seems to be able to
fight the mounting chaos is by throwing
more and more at it.
The basic drive of the American dream is
to get more. More than you had
yesterday. More than you had last year.
More than your parents had at your age.
More than your neighbor has now. We want
more.
Our government is worried that we may be
headed toward challenging economic times
so they spread out some cash that we’re
all supposed to rush out and create the
greatest shopping day ever witnessed by
the bean counters. We get free
government money because we have over
extended our own credit based life style
to the point of not having any real cash
left to spend.
We learn how to spend as a people from
watching our government which has taught
us such wonderful lessons; the value of
a $300 hammer and $500 toilet seat and
the spending power of creating a
trillion dollar national debt. Just keep
on spending, we can print more.
Let’s just go crazy.
In a sense we already are and have been
going crazy since sometime after we
first struggled our way out of the
mystery that is the origin of man. It
only is so much more noticeable now
because they are so many darned people
out there to diagnose the demons that
drive us down this fatalistic crash
called life in the 21st century. Rates
of depression and suicide soar to new
charts and the school shooting has
become something that we can expect at
least once a year . If we don’t stop the
madness soon, then people will start
calling it going academic instead of
going postal.
The mass insanity of the world is
building like a pressure cooker packed
with W.M.D.’s and no one wants to look
the problem in the face. We fight about
whether it is guns that kill people or
people with guns. We fight about whether
the world is trying to kill us because
we polluted it or whether it is just
trying to kill us for no reason at all.
All the while we continue with the same
sociopolitical industrial practices that
empower the madness in the first place.
When does it stop? When will we say
“enough is enough”? When will there be
enough cars on the road?
When will enough children have died?
When will we ever have enough money?
When will the world look it’s own
problems in the face and ask “How do we
fix this”?
Enough is enough.
- Dan Donan
Griffon News, 19 Feb 2008 p. 2 |