NEW YEARS 2012

 

It is New Years 2012 and trying to bring up something to write about that is new and different is more than just difficult, because we say the same things, hold the same positions, and as a country we so strongly embrace the mythical nation of USA,USA, that change is almost impossible. In the realm of the United States, nothing is new under the sun. That is to say that there is nothing new in the area of how we think of ourselves, the myths that we construe. The dominant myth is that all aspects of society should be market driven and function as profit makers and be self sufficient. Being self sufficient has made the workers in the United States the best workers in the world.

We are not the best workers in the world, but we are equal to workers anywhere in the world; we are not a peace loving nation, because we have built a colossus embracing a war machine and an economy of proportions never before seen; we are not a democracy, because money trumps our votes one way or another and therefore those with money control the nation. We are constantly reminded that this or that candidate doesn't have sufficient funds to win an election, or this or that candidate is out spending his or her opponents. Supreme Court decisions have mandated money as speech and corporations as citizens. Neither the first amendment rights of money nor the nineteenth amendment right of corporations can be abridged.