"...but that's not the point. The point is..."

Most of this has nothing whatsoever to do with the point I am trying to make.

I’m beginning to think that it’s pointless to oppose what our government says or does, since it grows more and more apparent that Government exists just to be so opposed, keeping us from rebelling against those who really control our destinies, namely the corporate interests that “our” government serves.

In my darker moments, I feel that “Corporate America” is the real America and that “the land of the free and the home of the brave” is a pleasant fiction maintained to keep us from directly opposing those who really pull the strings.

I know, this sounds highly cynical; in fact I hope it’s too cynical. Because a government that is totally subservient to Corporate America is a government that we the people cannot truly influence, against which we the people contend in vain. If America is truly run from the board room, where few of us have any voice, any advocate, then the government that we see is just smoke and mirrors and our “elected representatives” have no real power to do our will, even if they wanted to.

But I don’t always see America so darkly; sometimes I’m downright optimistic. Sometimes I believe that we can still make a difference in the world, that we can make enough of a change through the democratic process to keep government out of the hands of those we have not elected.

But is there still such an America, really? And if there is, then for how much longer? And if not, what can we do about it?

All of which has absolutely nothing to do with the point I am trying to make.

You see, whenever I write something like this someone usually criticizes me for asking such questions without at least suggesting answers. But I am not so vain as to believe that my answers are any better than yours, nor do I think you unable to find your own if you but look.

You don’t need my answers. We all need answers, but not necessarily mine. I am not Oz the Great and Powerful, nor am I the All-Seeing Oracle of Norvell. It seems to me that the more people we have looking for answers, the more people we have asking questions, the more people we have out there trying new ideas, the more people we have willing to fail, the greater our chance of success; the greater our chance of finding our way forward through all that would hold us back.

My point is this: To find your own answers, you have to look.

So look.

The Blues Viking

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