The Great Pretenders

It is fairly safe to say, or potentially not, depending on whose reading this, that America is not a democracy. There will be many of you who read this and will no doubt have an arguement against this assertion, and that is fine. What is not fine, is that regardless of what kind of government you chose to call it, there are very few justifications for what this country has done, not only to others, but to its it’s own. America’s wealth does not come from money, or weapons, or domestic goods, or anything economic. What America has is a carefully cultivated illusion.

Whether by accident or design, this country has maintained itself for no other reason than for the same reason some of you feel compelled to buy a new pair of designer shoes if your coworker, with whom you do not appreciate, purchased a pair first. And again whether by accident or design, someone, at some point in time realized something unique about America, about Americans, or rather people in general and that is the human desire to fit in, to have relationships, to have bonds. Yet unfortunately, this intrinsic drive to seek acceptance was perverted so that what is naturally sought in order to fulfill that desire was to be replaced by things only the economy could provide; something only the government could give. And the American people are optimist. Eternally so. Not all of them l, but as a general collective, Americans feel hopeful in that while things may not be ideal every moment of every day, they will at least be ideal once more.

But what if they won’t? What if all that lies ahead of this country is hopelessness?

This is something we must all consider. You can hold on to glass ceiling and you can give strength to your arms with determination, but eventually, as all things do, it is going to fall. If we are unprepared for the collapse, we will not survive it. Now is not the time to be a blind optimist. At least not if you live in America. If America wants to survive, or more ideally, if America wants to redeem itself, their needs to be a bit more honesty from those that lead this country as well as ourselves.

America is on the precipice of turning towards its it’s own failure, a failure that will cause the undoing of every good deed ever done in this country, every life lost for it. Whether or not America choose this route, either way, the American illusion, or American Exceptionalism as it was once called, is unraveling. Exceptionalism, keeping up with the Jones, social demography, genetic engineering, whatever you choose to call what is essentially racism with a doctorate degree, will never work for one reason; it is not true.

There is not such thing as American exceptionalism. Either you work hard and you do the right thing; or you don’t. And there is no guarantee that that hard work and good deeds will benefit you, especially not in a society that embraces the opposite. But what if we didn’t? What if the new American illusion was simply more honest? Would that change the precipice? Will that mean this country could survive itself?

Maybe. But probably not.

I hate to be the millionth broken record, another person at some point in history who says “Hey you may want to take this seriously guys. This isn’t a joke.” But if I know anything about history and if I know anything about people, this warning will get tossed out like all the rest and the next few generations to come will ask “why didn’t they listen?” And then a few years later a time will come when they too disregard a well intentioned warning and so they say the rest is history. And as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in the last line of the great Gatsby “ so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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