 Mark Morford keens in today on the slightly disoriented feeling we have, the sense that we have done what we must, but America cannot change soon enough, but maybe it will be too much. Like most real things we see verities collapsing around us and yet the psychology of the week is supposed to be Thanksgiving. It is the union of opposites, something Zen or Hegelian or just what we are not sure.
There is no map for what has happened to us over the past eight years or the past eight weeks. We have elected the most Liberal man in the U.S. Senate to be our president, but he is hiring on a crew of centrists. How will this work, we ask? How can we get our votes to count for something intelligent in this country? How can we rid ourselves of the mindlessness of sullen, racist, anger or of the cowardice and corruption within our own ranks?
"How" has been explained to you by your President-Elect. This will be a bottom-up society from now on. You are a community person from now on. Your job is to get off your Thanksgiving ass and do something for the community. That's it! Do something for someone besides your fat self. You will become addicted to the feeling and the world will change, and you will like it. Believe me!
JB |
