Nothing Rhymes With Nicaragua
Since when did we start living in a third world country?
When did America start sucking this badly?
I think I can attribute our current malaise to three factors:
1. our pandering political class that is more interested in re-election than actually giving a crap about the constituency 2. the blathering idiots in the media who have reduced all serious national discourse into soundbites and 3. intellectuals who have abdicated harnessing American exceptionalism for pie-in-the-sky ideology (both left and right)
“Hype” is not action. Inaction is not the “political process”.
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I know I am living in a third world country when:
1. the value of the dollar has been circling le grande toilette for the better part of three years
2. the financial system has crumbled faster than a 4$ meth ho’ after a pimp slap from Andre the Giant
3. work wages remain lower than in Nigeria and have not risen substantially in my lifetime. part-time and flex hours are just another way of saying We cheap. See ya!
4. the cost of living in many cities across our great land is now higher than when I was living in Tokyo in the 90s—-Tokyo!
5. the actual physical infrastructure of our county is about as well maintained as Geraldo Rivera’s mustache . . . just drive down a road, take a trip by train or visit some of our airports and get an investigative reporter’s “sense” of the joyous crapfest that is our great nation
6. NASA—yes, f$#$@! NASA—which just happens to be celebrating its 50th anniversary—has had to purchase seat on the Russian Soyuz craft because the damn space shuttle has less computing power than a Chryslar La Baron and was actually designed during the NIXON administration. . . .let that soak in for a moment. . .the last time anyone seriously looked at manned space flight in this country SCRAPPY DOO had just been thrust on the national scene!
7. people are allowed to home school their kids because our educational system has devolved from creating a civic society to focusing on performance and results
8. nepotism in all walks of life abounds. in spades.
9. entertainers feel free enough to espouse political wisdom ad nauseum. ever notice how many entertainers in third world countries have an inordinate amount of clout?. . .south america, eastern europe, africa. . .people aren’t so much as following them as wanting to be like them. read that: rich and influential
10. our country’s foreign policy based on fear and foreign public opinion.
11. I hear everyone talk about the greatness of China. . . Lets take a gander at that wonderful country, shall we? atrocious human rights abuses, no press or personal freedoms, hundreds of millions surviving on a few dollars a day, blatant racism, aggressive nationalism, genocidal policies toward ethnic minorities, environmental destruction, technological progress gleamed from other countries, a “vibrant” culture lifted from German political theory and modern Japan and Korea. . .oh, and material progress funded by American and Japanese investment.
12. the meteoric rise of Tina Fey is not heralded as an imminent sign of the apocalypse
But I think I am most disgusted in this nihilistic wet-dream that many have now that America is somehow past her prime, that America is doomed for eternity unless we do that one important thing!. . .
It’s all of a piece, a symptom of an entire generation that has infected this country with its cultural myopia and love of self-gratification.
we have become intoxicated with the allure and solace of slow dissipation, a gradual ebbing away of our vibrancy toward a civilized geriatric wonderland.
Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
