Sleep, Dreaming, and National Suicide

[muldoon]

There is a long essay written by Eric Andrews that someone emailed me and asked my thoughts.  I dont know what to say as for my thoughts.  Many things I dont agree with, some I see his point of view, and some I could not have said better.  In any event I thought it was very thought provoking and that it might make an interesting conversation over here. 

the link:  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjun10/Eric-Andrews06-10.html

a few snippets

You want to know why we won't fix the problem of oil spills, of strip malls, of imminent energy crisis, of unsustainable finances? We don't want to. We don't WANT to keep going. We WANT it to end. We don't WANT to be this kind of country. But we can't stop it, we can't die, because America is an idea, not a person. If we can't stop it, we do what all addicts, what all the suicidally depressed do: we arrange our own destruction so it ends for us, without our having to choose. We use increasingly bad behavior to force the collapse so we can finally break free from the impasse, and make the radical, nation-shaking change we can't face on our own.

That's what we're doing right now. At the bottom, with Millennial Apathy and dissipation, right to the top, with Katrina rescues and unwinnable Foreign wars. We're committing suicide. We're FORCING ourselves into a corner so we HAVE to change.

We hate this place. We Americans hate our empty houses, our empty jobs and our empty lives. We hate driving and not seeing our children. We hate not doing the things we dreamed of as children, making flying machines and pedaling free down tree-lined roads. We hate it with a burning passion but we don't know how to stop it, which is our fascination with Apocalypse, with catastrophe, with violence and disaster. We wish it would just blow up once and for all.

You've been lied to. You're being lied to with every word you hear. You've consumed maybe 10,000 lies that are inside you, eating you up, warring, making your judgment faulty, your actions irrational, the results arbitrary, contrary to the expectations you've been told, the way we were told the world would work. You need to get them out, and to expel one per day will take 30 years hard labor. Only a catastrophe can make it go faster. The one we're creating.

This is why we're sick, and why we're acting the way we do.

Fine. I can't stop it. They can't stop it. You can't stop it. But I guarantee you, on my life, it will stop.

The people have stopped supporting the system. The system, the powers of coercion and violence can rush from place to place making them, ordering them, forcing them, but they refuse to save it, refuse to help, refuse to perpetuate it. Let it rot. It's too big and too violent to take down and there's no point anyway. Let it fall in.