This Crumbling Empire

dmegivern

4-30-2008 12:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da615ac0-e700-4692-8d53-ae1a7cf1e417/9D6E78ED-4B63-41AF-A183-868368EEAB96/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042808b.html" href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042808b.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.consortiumnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042808b.html"><P class="article_title"> Fastened to a Dying Animal </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042808b.html"><SPAN class="article_lead_paragraph">Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American Republic, here in a  nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer  drones, whose architecture is being winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses  and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed  upon our suffering planet dying oceans and
the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism -- the essential question  confronts us -- how does one retain (not retail) one's humanity amid the catastrophic  machinery and inane accouterment of our age?
</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042808b.html"><DIV>Seemingly,  their creed is: Let the ignorant multitudes languish on the low nutrient, junk  news we serve them from the drive thru windows of our corporate media outlets,  while the political and
          business elite cannibalize what is left of the republic. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042808b.html">
          Yet, we, against all evidence, believe we are free actors in a spontaneous,  unfolding democratic drama. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D6E78ED-4B63-41AF-A183-868368EEAB96/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

dmegivern says:

I don't agree with the essay in its entirety, but thought it was thought-provoking.

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4-30-2008 3:25 PM

abailart

This speaks to something that no political party can address, to the core values of culture.

4-30-2008 5:11 PM

deb2012

maybe read this for balance and a way out: Reading the day to day news we get a negative view of the future. A declining dollar, high oil prices, a never ending war in Iraq and huge deficits all make it as difficult to imagine a beautiful day ahead as it was to imagine a decline in US military superiority at the height of the Dot Com Boom. article here

4-30-2008 5:32 PM