Reading the Landscape

Post-Modernism teaches that reading the subtext is as important if not more, than the actual text. The problem that developed for some of us, is that the world became a place constantly in need of translation.

In reading the current landscape of events in the United States the tenuous lines between subtext and text is becoming less distinct as civil liberty, personal responsibility, ethical behaviour and morality are eroding rapidly.

Although we may say it could be alot worse, I suggest society is already so demoralized that we are an exceedingly vulnerable target to both internal and external forces interested in the financial and spiritual annihilation of western 'civilization.'

We are a society whose people require antidepressants to function because one income barely provides a living wage for basic requirements. Non religious couples rarely consider the possibility of a woman remaining at home, raising children with moral values. A single mother with 5 sons whom she raised to be lawyers was hailed this week on a talk show as a heroine. The streets are filled with drugs, violence and male figures of authority and protection rarely exist.

Our greed and need to accumulate, buy cheap, move up, stay current and in touch is so compulsive we've rid ourselves of all menial work and production, exporting farming, jobs, manufacturing, telecommunications and customer services, giving third world countries access to personal ID info, and the opportunity to export sub standard and literally poisonous products endangering american lives, taking jobs that could support U.S. citizens the government claims the people just dont want to do after terminating welfare support. American farms are about obsolete. With shrimp banned from China now American shrimpers are noting its so expensive to farm and distribute shrimp the prices will likely have to go up...can't possibly miss out on a classic capitalistic opportunity to make a 'market killing' whenever the chance arises. But we already have shrimp coming in from 5 other countries...Even radiology interpretations of CAT, MRI scans are being interpreted by outsourced overseas doctors.

Can anyone figure out what the millions of kids going to college in the U.S. are going to do after graduating? Is everyone supposed to become a doctor, lawyer or corrupt corporate manipulator? In the massive educational ghettos called the public school system of overcrowded classrooms where parents have to contribute essential teaching supplies for classrooms, the drop out rates are noted at 50% in some communities. Why push to complete high school with years of debt from college and vague professional opportunities to hope for, based on who you know or dont defining your future. The smarter risk might be take your losses early, sell drugs, your body, cheat on tests, sleep with your teacher or just blow up your school.

Men trying to be 'men' find themselves acting out roles that waver between limp wristed acquiesence to females unsure whether to be whores or madonnas or dominating bullies announcing they are righteously 'in charge' with expectations of female servitude and submission.

Women, having given up their own sexual responsibility and morals, make themselves available on the internet in pornographic videos, chat rooms, bars, clubs, leaving the impression that anything goes, everything and anyone is up for grabs, prostituting not only themselves but even their own children or killing them for the sake of a relationship.

Women and children are 'disappearing' in astonishing numbers. This summer alone mothers and their kids are being searched for in wooded areas, lakes are being dragged for bodies, killers too often being the very men closest to them.

Depression is the most often prescribed medication now in the United STates, bypassing every other disease. In the 21st century we are still asking whether mental health should have parity with physical health. Mental illness is the last medical closet where ignorant doctors are allowed to relegate patients they cannot cure, cannot understand and cannot correctly diagnose. The sense of despair in adults as well as children is profound.

Established religions have proved themselves filled with hypocrisy and worse, with its leaders preying on children in churches and yeshivahs. While we finger point at the violence of muslims who define their religiosity by the lengths to which they are prepared to physically die, too many of our religious 'leaders' simultaneously murder congregations with spiritual betrayals and distrust. Of all the important issues facing the christian church, the pope declares latin is once again fashionable for mass.

The arrogance of the government continues despite pleas to disengage from a war that is unwinable by any measure. Whether we remain, sending our own citizens and iraqis to their deaths, maimings and mental destruction, Iraq will continue its centuries old feuds, bloodbaths and slaughter. It's the religion stupid.
The army we are 'training' is filled with infiltraters looking to sabotage any effort to build a footstool 'democracy' allowing the U.S. to control the region and its oil. And for those less politically saavy, its a jihadic opportunity to rebuild the caliphate and destroy the infidels, in short, It's the religion stupid.

While the morons who are hired by TSA for our airports take away water bottles from mothers and other passengers, they can't detect bomb parts secreted thru in suitcases. While police stand huddled in NYC subways, chatting in groups and occasionally stopping a random train rider to check their bags, others pass into a system completely open and vulnerable without cameras or detection devises.

For those looking for hopeful signs of Life in the universe, Poland is having a revival of Jewish(ness) by its non jewish citizens. Goyim are playing hasidic music, dancing, serving jewish foods in 'celebrations' of jewish customs and traditions. So many questions comes to mind after one finishes vomiting from disgust or peeing from laughter.

This was the country that Germany used as their elimination zone to rid the world of Jews. The camps are in Poland, the ghettos were in Poland, the forests in Poland hid partisans, men and women trying to defend Jewry and fleeing for their lives. The antisemitism spawned in Poland gave sanctuary and thriving permission to Nazism and genocide.

50 years after the Holocaust, in a world of rising antisemitism and apocalyptic Christian protectionism, as Israel remains isolated and compared to Nazis themselves re: Palestinians, are Poles celebrating jewish(ness) to cynically recall what they attempted to destroy?

Are Poles (as well as the entire muslim world) preparing the groundwork as the world looks to once again embark on the final destruction of the 'jewish problem' in working out a Mid East solution?

Or is this a peculiar (and unlikely) form of Stockholm Syndrome where the twist is that the oppressor takes on the captive's traits in a guilty dance of impending doom?

Is the answer wrapped inside some killing field in Iraq? Is in the place where 'weapons of mass destruction' can't quite be located? Maybe the answer is in the nuclear facility Iran has built while the US sits on its hands... Is the answer on some Internet chatroom as arab men chatter together while seeking naive women for marriage to enable them to travel? Is it in the bored laughter of cops occasionally checking a backpack or genuinely ill trained airport workers who don't know what danger signs to take seriously...

Maybe the answer is in our own citizenry raised to feel entitled to a thriving and peaceful existence while the rest of the world burns in suffering and poverty? Despite all the signs around us, most that really dont need much translation, most americans seem to remain supremely in denial as to what's facing us. News programs are still looking for answers, still waiting for 'moderate' muslims to appear on the horizon so we can play nice together.

Global media is discussing how it could be possible for professionally educated 'scientifically' oriented (re: secular exposure) muslims could be caught up in a world of destruction? No one dares publically confront the disconnect between what's written in quran and public statements of 'peace' and submission' professed by so called moderate muslims and misinformed western educated idiots and unacknowledged antisemites. Now with pockets of muslim enclaves throughout Europe and the U.S. whose intentions and loyalty one can only guess at, we must not trigger an avalanche of jihad activities. Its enough trying to manage the red blooded american kids trying to blow up their schools and classmates.


12 million illegal persons floating around the U.S.
They can't all be Mexican.
Deportations of drug dealers, domestic violence perpetrators, stalled for decades.
Deportations of known persons whose visas have expired, stalled or ignored.
Illegals standing on corners waiting for work vans.
Illegals screaming at demonstrations for their 'rights'
Churches and synagogues looking to solidify and rebuild dying congregations, giving refuge to illegals.
Illegals steadily having as many 'sympathy' babies as possible hoping to avoiding deportation by sheer numbers.
How many babies can a dish washer, grass cutter or house maid support?
Grown children of non citizens demanding entry into college with ability to apply for college grants and loans?
Are 12 million people able to function and live in a society where a government claims everyone must have a Social Security number for work, disability, medical insurance, etc? Are there 12 million people using completely fake or stolen Social Security numbers? Whose cranking out this amount of social security info without the government able to track or stop them?
Is this the same government that's trying to foil al Qeada inside the U.S. and abroad?

A government who refused to stop this madness, attempts to sanction and bestow citizenship on every thief who overstayed, crawled and snuck in, while millions wait legally, because we can't just get rid of 12 million people. After all, whose going to wash all those dishes that Americans wont wash?

We're a depressed nation of people...once the depression passes and the anger takes hold, perhaps we'll see some needed changes.