Ironic that my study of root truths and causes has coincided with a period in history where those truths are routinely ignored, defied, lied about, deformed and otherwise disrespected by many people and institutions in our society.  Like many  Americans, I took a lot of things for granted for a long time; the innate goodness of people, general honesty and fairness, doing right for others, trust in my government and social institutions, belief that laws would be equally and fairly applied, among others.  I lived most of my life outside the United States and I always felt that ours was the best country in the world because of these and other American characteristics.  But in recent years I have seen much of that eroded and the United States become more and more like the self serving, partisan and downright dishonest countries of the world. 

 

Welcome to the world controlled by our generation of self absorbed narcissists who had the unprecedented luck of living a life of uninterrupted abundance and opportunity and who believe anything and everything will be given to them, no questions asked, ever.

 

In this world of our making, our system of checks and balances has gotten seriously out of order and we now live in a kind of bizzaro world where what is obvious and true for any normal person to see, is now somehow deformed into the opposite.  Truth is not winning out and lies and deceit are flooding in.  Some examples?

     - 4 supreme court justices believe it is ok to deny promotion to whites who took a race neutral test, just because they did better than blacks given the same chance,

     - 5 of them agreed that your private property can be taken by force if the government wants to give it to others for private use,

     - your democratically controlled congress passes massive spending without even reading the bill or allowing the people time to digest and understand it,

     - blatant election fraud by ACORN,

     - half the population interprets the constitution to mean freedom FROM religion instead of freedom OF religion

     - teachers unions insist on ever more funding for education, now way over $8,000/child on average, and fewer and fewer can read or graduate from h.school, now less than 60%

     - willingness to tax your use of energy and call the carbon dioxide you exhale a pollutant you have to pay for instead of developing nuclear energy and our own sources of gas, oil and coal

     - our president aligns himself with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro against the democratically elected government and court system of Honduras that toppled a leftist president who was trying to nullify the constitution by force

     - ignoring the obvious and precipitous drop in our prestige and deterrent power in world affairs created by the weakness of our president who is clearly out of his depth

 

There are so many blatant examples of the world gone crazy that they are too numerous to mention.  We  have gotten enured to so much of it flying our way that we expect the outrageous to prevail over normalcy.  Our generation demonstrates such arrogance and disregard for the core truths of humankind that only bad results can come of it.  They have gained control of so many checking and balancing aspects of our society and government that bizzaro world has descended upon us.  They control the press, the educational system from k thru college and grad school, congress, the entertainment industry, the unions, NGO's, government bureaucracy, much of the judiciary and local governmental systems.  So much united force arrayed against normal values has an overwhelming impact.  This a juggernaut that will not be stopped by appeals to reason or logic.  No amount of talking will dissuade these people from doing what they want to do.  That is why events and reality will have to intrude on their dillusions to finally shake us all out of this trap.  Unfortunately, the events that will do it are going to be quite painful for us.  The array is quite frightening; economic depression, nuclear weapon going off somewhere, a dirty bomb against one of our cities, gang control of a city or massive, unchecked invasion by illegal aliens fleeing some disaster in Mexico, expansion of the war in the middle east, confrontation with Iran... the list goes on and on.

 

I wish I had some answers but I don't.  I will be among the truly furious, shaking my impotent fist at these morons and shouting I told you so at them when it happens.  There will be a backlash and a move back to the center when that happens but I  suspect so much damage will be done that we will be a generation or more recovering from it.  As it stands, we will quickly be a third world country that defaults on our debt or experiences such inflation that the dollar disappears as the currency of choice for monetary systems around the world.  

 

Our generation, living the arrogant and smug conceit that they know better than timeless economic laws, natural law, our constitution, human nature and moral absolutes is bringing our great civilization down to mediocrity.  It is amazing that this could happen in one short generation.  It will take many more to redress.