There are not very many people alive today who have experienced impartial hardship on a global or (at least in America) on a national scale. We have become fat and lazy and complacent and entitled and pretentious and overconfident; as best characterized by our self-esteemed and obtuse president.
Here in America, we have obvious national hardship; but because it does not touch the fat and lazy, and because it does not negatively impact (and in fact, it perpetuates and upholds) the ever-widening wealth gap, the majority is silenced. Last week I touched on this and listed the following transgressions and hardships:
- Incarceration Rates,
- Firearm Fatalities,
- The High Cost of Education,
- Implicit Bias,
- The Wealth Gap,
- The Destruction of Our Environment,
- The Politicization of our Judicial System,
- Homelessness,
- Traffic Fatalities,
- Evictions,
- The Working Poor,
- The High Cost of Housing,
- Suicides,
- Explicit Bias,
- Entitlement,
- Skewed Prioritization,
- Pining for the Good Old Days at the Expense of the Future,
- The High Cost of Health Care,
- Blustering Stupidity Masquerading as Expertise,
- The Demise of Our U.S. Constitution.
We can add to this list, infectious disease. Because of multiple factors, including the dissolution of the pandemic-preparedness office (that was part of the National Security Council) in 2018, and the lack of scientific expertise in the upper echelons of our current administration, we were not ready for this pandemic; and there is talk of making it worse. There is talk of sacrificing lives for the sake of the economy. And there is evidence that, if this is the path we choose, the hardest hit will be the poor and the disenfranchised and the underprivileged. I suppose that as long as the fat and lazy can remain fat and lazy and as long as a vibrant economy continues to anesthetize those in their paycheck-to-paycheck comfort zone, what does it matter if an extra million or so in the lower tiers of our nationally-mandated financial caste system are tossed aside and killed off for the good of the American economy.
What more is there to say?
I am at a loss.
We are at a loss.
What more is there to say?