Maybe the days of American Exceptionalism are over.
Plus---it was German Romantic Nationalists who came to
conclude that such a thing was possible to define. And we know what happens
when Germans get too Romantic about defining a nation as being
exceptional…maybe the worst example, ever.
Friends, we had our run.
What is left is a government that does not work, a citizenry that is cynical and exhausted and a television bill for 150 bucks per month, if you’re lucky.
What is left is a government that does not work, a citizenry that is cynical and exhausted and a television bill for 150 bucks per month, if you’re lucky.
Usually, domestic life becomes more meaningful when a
country falls apart. Though, more households are single now than ever before,
both in number and in percentage of total population. Domesticity becomes a mad
dash to the computer for intimacy---like some sentimental scene from an old
timey futuristic movie about a space man video-calling home.
We are divided, poor and alone. Not even the mega church
down the street can fix that.
But on a positive note—if we eat enough humble pie, we might
become more balanced. And if we become more balanced, we may look back on this
time as a heaving great shift to sanity.
Sanity takes some doing.
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