If you don’t mind crying like a little kid, I hope you’ll watch the video below featuring Iris Dement, because the theme is a sad one indeed.
“Can’t you see, the sun’s sinkin’ fast, but just like they say, nothing good ever lasts” is perhaps a retelling of what our greatest minds have been telling us for ages. For example, we have “Nothing gold can stay,” the work of America’s perhaps most beloved poets, Robert Frost.
Dement’s third verse:
I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall
I bring them flowers about every day
But I just gotta cry when I think what they’d say…
I buried both my parents, who were lifelong Republicans, but “I just gotta cry when I think what they’d say” not about the demise of our town, but our nation.
What’s happening to this country is horrible. Maybe it’s reversible, but maybe it’s not.
It’s up to us.
To the reader who sent me this, I remind him of war, various forms of criminality including pardons for cash, treason, and corruption, inflation derived from ludicrous economic policies, racism, educational decline, world ridicule, and environmental collapse.
Outside of all that, I’d say you’ve hit the nail on the head.
I’d also add that “the jig is up,” as they used to say. There are far too few stupid assholes left in this nation to provide any meaningful levels of support to Trump at this point to save him from removal from office and criminal prosecution.
As a human civilization, we’ve been talking about subject for a very long time–to no avail.
Most people who consider this idea belief the problem is greed. In fact, Socrates said, “All wars are about money.”
I’m sure what Voltaire says here is true, but what’s the value in “raising oneself above the ideas of the time.”
Right now, human civilization is tottering on the brink of world fascism and environmental collapse. We need real solutions to precisely these issues.
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