Captain America

It’s not lost on as me as I think of the state of political discourse in America today that long before my time, a group of men got together to craft a document that holds as a self-evident truth, the notion that all men are created equal and that it would be the will of those citizens born to each other as peers that would bear the burden to set the status quo in opposition to the grand historical tradition of the status quo being defined by the whims of a few greedy & powerful men. This new status quo created by the people for the people would be the guiding hand that would craft the rule of law for the beginnings of a nation that has been f****** me up my entire life in practice but loves me dearly in ideal.

Yet here we all are more present in the theoretical idea of “the future” than any other population of human beings that has ever been or may ever be and somehow we’ve come back around to a new small and vocal group of cultural misers belying their will as “the way the world is meant to be”. Whether it’s a comparative few shouting their bigotry into the echo chamber of the internet and moving metaphorical mountains, or its the quietly held prejudices that keep their roots in the hearts and actions of those in positions of authority, rationalized to the the people as their own will; Too often we find the privileged minority screaming at the tops of their lungs at the rising tide for raising every ship, as an unfair affront to the singularity of their greatness. Wielding their disproportionate hold on the status quo over the rest of us with the bastard clumsy hands of an idiot racist god. (more…)