Tuesday, January 20, 2009
1.20.09: The End of an Error?
One king steps down and another takes his place. It doesn't really matter who is in charge because this country is doomed, DOOMED! Maybe I've been reading too much Toynbee lately, but I don't see how one man can possibly arrest the slow disintegration of our civilization. The economy is fucked. The middle class has finally seen the end of its entitlement. The best minds of our generation are waiting tables and pumping gas. We've proclaimed the deification of profit and consumption. Our government is a bloated bitch-goddess with an insatiable appetite for money and failure. We have enemies everywhere. Our culture is a pathetic rotten shell of its former self. Our society is morally bankrupt. We are actively working to destroy our environment. A man's greatest hope is to die quietly in bed surrounded by his stuff. We have no long term vision or planning. We're day to day and hand to mouth. I'm glad Obama has made “hope” a central pillar of his presidency, because that is all we really have left.
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That which I like about Obama's rhetoric, and that which won me over to him, is that he does not claim to be the answer. A central idea of my life over the last couple years is the idea that one needs to live in the world that they want to have. Most of what we do is complain, yet no one tries to change anything. One has to be the change they wish to see in the world. What Obama's rhetoric does is it places the responsibility on our shoulders. He is the only president I have been alive for that uses the word "we" instead of "I."
The job of a leader is to get those he is leading to act. Not to act himself.
So, I suppose you can die in bed surrounded by your stuff, or you could get involved in trying to make your living situation better.
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