Do you often feel like humans are destined to keep repeating over and over the same errors? As the saying goes we often fail to learn the lessons from history. Is it even possible for generations to internalize and understand the failings and recycled foibles of humanity? Maybe if we were pre-programmed with wisdom it would be. As it stands we vacillate between famine and luxury, from peace to war, from collectivism to individuality; pick any two poles that you wish to wobble wildly between. Our personal failings and the failings of statehood merge, one a magnified spectre of the other.
Or as David Foster Wallace termed the U.S. has emerged as a country featuring corporate ascendancy, bureaucratic entrenchment, and foreign adventurism; all the while crippled with the continued ramifications of racial conflict and unresolved social stratification. And further benighted by high heinous highlights of wars, secret bombings, assassinations, wire taps… data breaches, NSA overreach, Patriot Acts and debilitated constitutional protections. We insufferably go where we've tread fruitlessly time and time before.
As long as we are plagued by the worst elements of our nature, we will always be susceptible to cycles of attrition, violence, and spiritual/scientific decay. Only through molding new civilizations from the clay of knowledge will humanity embrace a post-phillistine, post-dark ages, post-superstition, post-primitive world where our temperaments and dark demons can be quelled. In the hallowed rays of the future a more perfect wheel is being mended, to await gentler footsteps on that circular path of redemption.
Peace @ClumsySilverDad
