America's Frankenstein

We believe that the futuRe is connected to sci-fi, but in reality, it’s a real frankensteinian type monster created by greed, cynicism and unimaginable profit motive from a past that always infects the future.

As a literate person, i recognize that what america churns out as historical pablum for not only most common people to consume and regurgitate but for its intellectuals it is regurgitated word cud, where one thing changes form but not content. 

Take the classic novel, frankenstein, written by mary shelley on a holiday lark. A good representation of 19th century ideas of socialistic/capitalistic struggles of the period.

Believe me, it is not a monster story as hollywood would have us believe. It is meant as a metaphorical story of an uncontrolled amalgamation of unfettered capital (money) and the way it can runs amok, if left to its own devices. Not much more complicated than that. There is only value based on a dollar, and everything from human beings to the price of skins, from eggs to the beautiful scene in a Monet.

Frankenstein starts as a metaphor for all the control freaks, whether it be individuals or nations, who turn normal social constructs developed over milleniums into hierarchical systems of authority. The profiteers control over such basic social institutions as education, economics, politics, and humanitarian and international social justice systems are literally turned over to the profit motive  monster unleashed among the society and everyone eventually forgets who made the thing that way, is it the way things have to be, or who is wanting to take responsibility for it.

Since the novel is an archetype, that is, represents a possible universal trait, it can be applied to universal situations.

Trump is a 77-year-old, white (very white, if you know what i mean?) wealthy, a natural born hater of mankind, greedy, manipulative, a sexual abuser, a leader of vigilantes, plus, one of the most uneducated men I’ve ever seen in public life.

Biden is an 81 year old white, an apologist for capitalism, a spokesperson for the morbid status quo, an unimaginative personality, slowed by age, susceptible to neo-fascist compromises, has no ideas for the future (shortsighted- a very common trait among politicians), and is totally unaware of how he looks to the public-fragile, slow, ready to go away

They are both Men, neo-fascist capitalist, supportive of the use of non-democratic power. Presidential exceptionalism in a tri-institutionalized, supposed balance of power democracy.

In America, the use of unregulated power is the modern hallmark of the type of undemocratic system we are currently living in. Since the country is divided, possibly irreparably, the potential for the type of change necessary to not only undue the miserable historical legacy of slavery, greed, and international chaos created by proxy war, imperialism, and threats of nuclear annihilation.

Our sole institutions of power management are no longer acceptable nor approved by the public, no longer representative because of decades of gerrymandering, corruption, greed and political divisions based on antiquated ideas about political parties and representation.

With that, the president has wielded his own version of power based on the idea that they represent the one institution above the ones stagnated by abuse- the military and since 9/11, the secret anti-terrorism (euphemism for anti- change) sub-institutions of national security, cia, fbi)

The political fight here has always been between the ideas of socialism and capitalism. Its that simple. Government control of the publics resources or the government financing of private industry. This new administration, while abhorring the federal government, isn’t stupid, understanding that the federal government is where the money is. We’ve come full circle. Taxation without representation.

In every recession, industry crashes caused by the relaxed regulation government gave to private industry, private industry came out better off and the public came out worse.

All of this is the parts thrown together over the centuries and most recent decades to make the monster we see before us.

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