Maybe. Maybe not. I believe that the power of bread and circus to euthanise our cultural pain is weakening.

– The burbs do not guarantee the promise of the upper-middle-class AmerikanDream that they once did.
– Most Americans actually live in densely populated “urban” areas, where it is obvious that our infrastructure is failing.
– Most of us are losing loved ones to cancer… caused by polluting agents and untested chemicals in our mass-produced foods.
– Divorce is so high, the ‘traditional family’ is a RARITY.
– There is so much sadness and despair, the arts and music industry has a hard time finding uplifting songs to play.
– Churches and Christian Organizations are dying… because the fruits of the spirit, Joy, Peace, Love, Kindness – are so hard to come by in our world.
– LOTS of people realize that Our Gov’t System churns on propoganda and bull-shit policy that serves and protects the ever-narrowing wealthy upper-class.

Maybe the critical mass of pain isn’t there,

But MINE is.

I’m tired, pissed off, and am trying to figure out how to raise my children in a war-zone, where there’s more hatred and exhaustion than anything I’d call dare love or peace.

In America, we have a convenient (for some) myth: that our democratic system works and lives up to its title.

In point of fact, the majority of Americans is satisfied enough. Satisfied enough to permit the continuation of the status quo. When (If?) that ever changes, reform will be possible. For a time. Until people forget again as we have forgotten today.

The way it looks to me, we are nowhere near to reaching the level of pain it will take for meaningful change.