My last post convinced some TMV readers that I had reached rock bottom as far as negativity, pessimism, despair and cynicism. But Noooooo – I can descend even further into the great abyss.
Let us imagine that the 2010 U.S. economy and our political, financial, and social systems are analogous to a toilet after an “unprecedented” large and ugly bowel movement. We have an array of know-it-all pundits, Media commentators, Internet Bloggers, and our partisan political and civic leaders collectively standing atop the floating mess, pointing fingers at each other. Some are crying that we need more stimulus measures, others are screaming for cutting budgets or taxes, and others are discussing various reforms by rehashing old ideas from the right, left and middle. But it’s always the same group of moronic screamers calling for the same old discredited ideologies and policies.
What some in the American general public probably want now is to quickly flush the whole mess away. Instead, after years of producing endless mierda, merde and crap, the whole rigid, ossified, bankrupt, corrupt, gridlocked, and paralyzed toilet and our entire sewer system have started to back up and make a mess on the floor and in the rest of the house. Rather than trying to clean up the mess, our entire population and leaders are too lazy and tired to clean up anything, and are unable to agree on what should be done or even who should do it. Thus we have decided to live with the stench and mess all over the house for the foreseeable future. Few people have decent jobs or economic futures but let’s go back to distracting ourselves with the latest electronic gizmos and even more prescription and illegal drugs so we don’t notice the complete stinking mess all around us.
So BP has finally plugged the uncontrolled mile-down underwater oil gush off the coast of Louisiana. We still have a massive environmental disaster to address in the Gulf. Yet we hope a few big hurricanes will do the trick in cleaning up the mess quickly so we can forget it ever happened. We can’t address our helpless addition to artificially cheap oil. The magic hand of the free market has already shoved itself up our collective sphincter and no one even noticed or cared.
We are too lazy, ignorant, demoralized, and fearful to do much about anything as that might actually require us to abandon the safety of our fantasies and long-ingrained laziness. And God-forbid, we would have to actually force ourselves to make really big changes in our lives, attitudes, ways of living, and how we relate to each other and govern ourselves. This goes for almost everything we do in the U.S. as we’re collectively in a rut and it appears we don’t even care if we stay there. Let’s replace timid Democrats with complete imbecile Republicans in November – as if that’s going to improve things a bit in our massively corrupt oligarchy.
We’ve all become zombies and we appear to like the walking dead state as it takes no work, effort or brainpower. We can’t even mention facts and reality lest many parts of the delusional U.S. population might get even more fearful, angry and bonkers than they already are.
The late, great cynical comedian and social commentator George Carlin was right for decades. He might have taken a perverse pleasure (schadenfreude) in living through this great unraveling of the American Dream and Empire. And to all Americans, let’s cut the crapola about this “Great Recession” and call things what they really have been since December 2007, the “21st Century American Depression and Collapse.” Fortunately it will be country’s last – as we won’t be around as a functioning Nation within 10 years to see any more of them.
Submitted by Marc Pascal who is happily ranting from Phoenix, AZ, while listening to the memorable Warren Zevon & Meat Loaf song “Send money, guns and lawyers, the s**t has hit the fan.”