There is much to be shared and said about the human and environmental condition. Most important may be the history of human intervention on each other’s social development and the conservation of the environment. Next to that is the probability of repeating history. As I see it the only thing changing is the “skin we’re in” but not what we’re doing. In the U.S., there is a profit motivated crisis that is re-occurring. Most are not aware of it and those who are want to suppress any consciousness of it from surfacing.
In these times, history writes of the dominant group of people in power seeking to squelch discontent with gestures of desired change even it that gesture is aggression and war. Currently, in light of a changing world spinning away from the European model of cultured society and even further from the narcissistic focus of individual achievement, deliberate and debilitating efforts of concentrating wealth, private ownership and control over the means of production, plus the imperialist tendencies of dominance of the United States, we now have a (r)evolution without explosives and literal deaths and dismemberment.
Entire regions, namely Latin America, have adopted a new model for social development. Its seed is Eastern European. It is planted in the nutrition rich soil of Cuba and cultivated in Venezuela. I’m not sure what the Soviets actually thought of doing but, whatever it was the ideology has germinated in Latin America. At its core is nationalizing natural resources (taking them away from foreign countries, private corporations (domestic & foreign), and individuals) and generating profits for use developing the social fabric and not someone’s tailored look.
It may have been happening in the Middle East, it is a bit of a stretch, but, the sacrifice of lives and the destruction of a monument of concentrated wealth gave the U.S. the excuse it needed to invade that region, set up shop, and protect its corporate interests disguised as saving the world from terrorism. It sounds much like the reason for being involved in both Korea and Viet Nam, when the terror was communism and the best defense was the offense of a pre-emptive strike. In other words, fight them over there before we have to fight them here, on our own turf. Think of Cesar’s s rationalization for deciding to invade Egypt, the assurance that there is enough wheat for bread and Romans wouldn’t have to starve. You may want to consider the reason for England’s invasion of Ireland when just as the industrial revolution used up all of its natural resources (and polluted the air and rivers). Both serve as historic tidbits to show just how far back the thinking of what the U.S. has in place goes.
With its credibility lessened by the Middle East and the social (r)evolution in Latin America, the powers that be feel things slipping away. Now is the chance to present something, anything that will restore credibility and keep thing in their own hands, an unlikely pair of candidates for the presidency of the United States, a Black Man and a White woman.
The hopefulness that both people represent gives the white male power structure the respite it needs to deal with everything else and maintain control. However, added to the list of complications and hardships is the slim chance that either of these candidates not play according to the power structure’s rules. Yes, now we have a Black man in place to achieve a milestone, as we would have had with a White woman, but, that is not to say that they couldn’t run together from the get-go, something that many thought to have been a better idea from the beginning and spare the nation the agony of the party’s nomination campaign but, that, as said in pop culture’s “PREDATOR” film, would be ‘no sport’. The audacity of the (distracting) hope is as much a part of the plan as is having both people running for one public office.
Blink a few times to wake yourself up before telling us whether it is a real change.
“reporting the news is a privilege, and a responsibility, that can not be exploited.”
A line from the film “Meet Joe Black".
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