My OperaThoughts on our Nations Future
Friday, June 17, 2011 3:47:42 PM
Thoughts on our Nations Future
I've been thinking quite a bit lately about the state of our Nation and what our Government should do as opposed to what it actually does. It seems we have become so polarized and Ideologically entrenched that the mere suggestion of ideas outside our own secluded sphere is heretical.
The only sure thing we can know from this point forward is that the status quo of infighting and acrimony, endless war and economic imbalance at home is obviously unsustainable.
A quick outline of a recent publication - THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY (513 pp.) by —William Appleman Williams and World Publishing, as outlined in the TIME article linked here
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872576,00.html
raises some very interesting thoughts on our capitalist economic model vs a more reasoned model of government bearing a balanced socialist component thus far missing in American discourse.
Though this may not be the end all solution to our serious social and economic problems. The one sure thing we should know now, is to continue on the road we are now will lead to a sad graveyard of lost empires, where even the greatest have met their end.
I hope we are still able to stop the ideological polarization and self centered infighting long enough for us all to see the abyss our nation is heading toward. If we don't pull together now with a singular purpose I fear we will never again see the marvel of the American Dream for anyone.
I've been thinking quite a bit lately about the state of our Nation and what our Government should do as opposed to what it actually does. It seems we have become so polarized and Ideologically entrenched that the mere suggestion of ideas outside our own secluded sphere is heretical.
The only sure thing we can know from this point forward is that the status quo of infighting and acrimony, endless war and economic imbalance at home is obviously unsustainable.
A quick outline of a recent publication - THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY (513 pp.) by —William Appleman Williams and World Publishing, as outlined in the TIME article linked here
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872576,00.html
raises some very interesting thoughts on our capitalist economic model vs a more reasoned model of government bearing a balanced socialist component thus far missing in American discourse.
Though this may not be the end all solution to our serious social and economic problems. The one sure thing we should know now, is to continue on the road we are now will lead to a sad graveyard of lost empires, where even the greatest have met their end.
I hope we are still able to stop the ideological polarization and self centered infighting long enough for us all to see the abyss our nation is heading toward. If we don't pull together now with a singular purpose I fear we will never again see the marvel of the American Dream for anyone.
