Why won’t the old ways of critiquing our country work any more? It’s because wit, humor, and irony are devices used to impel change for the better. They lose all effect when change is impossible and essential change is no longer conceivable in America. The root cause is our system--fantasized, mythologized, sacralized--built on injustice, inequity, and engineered privilege, with a profound and tacit hypocrisy that even its purveyors couldn’t comprehend.
What they have done--in their bald vulgarity, in their gallumphing, puerile hubris, their refusal to mask our historic amorality with fulsome, exculpatory rhetoric and paeans of high spiritual purpose--is to advertise in grisly detail the vacuous arrogance, blatant cruelty, bottomless avarice, and brazen, bullying aggression that has insulted, violated, and alienated the world.
As in any natural process, disintegration will not be sudden or immediate. Dissolution may take as long as creation. As it proceeds, Americans will suffer and their suffering will be intense, acute and inescapable. They will grope and grasp for answers, remedies, fixes, and find none. They have been schooled that all problems have solutions and can be overcome. It is not so. Their myth deceived them.
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