The Alienation
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
-TS Eliot
It’s a strange environment. Coming to the realization that all the things that are wrong with our country are now the norm puts one into a state of alienation unlike ever before. The notion that we are a free people is destroyed by our inability to choose our own healthcare and insurance in a free market that offers choices. It’s destroyed by anvils of regulations that sit on American businesses and energy producers. Even the banking system has changed beyond recognition with capital being choked off by the burdensome rules placed on it by our ever growing government.
Where am I? I don’t even recognize the place anymore.
I saw America under Ronald Reagan. It was the beautiful shining city on a hill that we all hear about. My philosophy is based in the endless optimism and the gleaming infrastructure of a country that was moving from the post war era into an era of unprecedented prosperity. Applying that philosophy to what we have today ended last night with the re-election of President Obama.
We’ve gone from shining city to trailer park. We’ve gone from the land of abundance to the hood. We look more like Detroit than we do Manhattan. I don’t even recognize the country anymore.
The decaying future ahead will require adjustments on my part. Having been accustomed to driving on a smoothly paved three lane highway, I will need to learn to drive on narrow cobblestone roads. Adjusting my approach to life doesn’t mean adjusting my values or core convictions; it just means adjusting how I actually navigate outside of my own mind and soul when interacting with the rest of a nation as we begin our journey into the thousand years of darkness that Ronald Reagan warned us about.
This means recognizing incompetence, selfishness and the common denominator mentality as the new norm. The idea of self reliance, free enterprise and family values have gone the way of the horse and buggy. We live in the new world that accepts mediocrity. The sheep are sheep no more. They are now pigs.
It’s normal to see everyone using EBT cards at supermarkets as they hold up the line while they try to keep their children – many of whom were born out of wedlock – under control or because they are kibbitzing with the checkout clerk (oblivious to the growing line behind them – “I’m here to get what’s mine, what I’m entitled to.”).
It’s normal to see people closing up businesses and feeling no shame in their failure. The government that takes care of all of our needs also takes care of all of our excuses. It’s okay, you can go on food stamps, too.
Less people work today than four years ago. Population growth doesn’t mean more people working. It just means more people on the dole. Obama’s giving us free phones! Obama’s paying for our education! Obama is feeding us, clothing us, wiping our asses for us. We don’t have to worry anymore. This is hope and change! There is no decency anymore.
James Lewis at American Thinker sums it up best:
No — the balance of decency in America has changed. Every society has normal, decent people and the other kind. The America we grew up in was fundamentally decent. Decency was the expected standard.
Now the balance has changed.
The evidence for our sleazified culture can be seen all around. It is in our pop music, which has lost melody and now just has rhythm. We have a President who won on revenge against middle class values. That’s what he meant by telling his people to vote for revenge. And they did — showing us exactly who they are.
We are now a society divided between the makers and the takers, and the takers are on a campaign of theft and revenge.
2012-11-08 07:05:45
Source: http://patricksworldusa.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-alienation.html
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