21st
Century Life in the USA
(or
two decades of retirement in Sonoma County)
Recently it’s been
Biblical Times:
Drought, Fire, Flood, and
Pestilence.
When I first came here
twenty years ago,
it was
apple blossoms, jazz concerts, FM radio, and The Arts.
What happened?
We
started with Bush-Gore along with Y2K 2000.
We’ve splintered increasingly with each
4-year period.
There might as well
not be schools anymore;
We’ve shed art, geography, history, athletic
teamwork,
home-making, shop, civics, foreign
languages.
The only thing taught these days, is how to
pass the SATs.
We’ve lost community, National
unity, and Global awareness:
No more
scrap drives – girl scout cookies are a fund-raiser
for a
PAC to support an agenda that now includes the Boy Scouts
No one I know sends packages to 3rd
world countries except http://motherbearproject.org/
,which my better half does.
Sci-Fi books used to
be the future when mankind came together:
well, now it’s womankind as well, but they didn’t
have any answers
that the public really wanted to hear
either..
The American “Dream”
of yore used to be the white picket fence:
Washed
away in the flood – of 2008 financial ruin.
Retiring to a free society
in Northern California to write my memoirs?
Dream on.
Smoke and Smog – evacuees and refugees from elite
havens to the South. Newspapers closing or selling.
Increased County resources
devoted to home-less and job-less
people
with no long-term solution; just moving them
from one location to another,
endlessly.
This is not the brother I know and love. One of your greatest attributes over your entire life has been your "positivity." You always saw the glass almost full, well more than half, and you always had ideas to make things better. The rest of us are always the ones saying everything is gloomy and the world isn't what it used to be and you would repaint the whole picture and have us walking away a bit brighter. I think I need to come up and soothe your fevered brow.
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