Fw: I am part of a mixed race family

I am part of a mixed-race, multi-ethnic family made of those who are young and old, middle class, working class, alcoholics, drug addicts, and multi-sexual, right and wrong, feminist and strong, hidden and out in the open. According to 23 and me i have thousands of 4th generation cousins, most of whom I have no idea who or where they came from or what they believe or hold sacred. In other words, I belong to a typical american family, if you want to call such a conglomeration of people a family.

The most revolutionary thing i feel I can do at this point in my life is try not to believe I am making progress in a world that I believe is going backward. 

My own politics are sometimes mean and impatient. Sometimes i want to kill the intellectual in me and murder the powers that are not in me that be. I am frustrated with my isolation (being a retired senior, i am as invisible and unheard as anyone can be) and tired of watching while the world burns, like some sort of small-time arsonist wanna be.

My thoughts trend toward revolution which if it happened i would most likely end up being just as much a victim as anyone will be, as the destruction of dreams is a messy business and a necessary one, but i would also be a cohort of what could come out of all of the rubble, as long as it's not more of the gun that historically has brought about and what guarantees what always happens next.

We all, and i mean all, are at a crossroad that either road taken will change the course of western history.

The infestation of fascism has been inbred and nurtured in america and the western "civilized" world for decades, if not centuries. Entertainment and sports celebrity idolatry, an american dream of making more money than your parent's ever did are unrealistic dreams based on worship of money as the primary value and consumerism the principle which human beings are based. Is that what humanity has come to, an insipid acceptance of the trivial which is not even true? 

My parent's and my generation had a low inflation/recession, low interest rates and value-built system integrated into a cold war acceptance of division and animosity (over the difference between capital and community-i.e. money). Yes, there was a cost to this- low wages (remember low inflation) and racist economics, but certainly no worse than now, simply because despite slow change on the social front, there was never going to be an anti-capitalist economic in america, except for social security and medicare, which has survived to this day ( maybe not beyond) despite the onslaught of privatization and spoilage raiding. 

In those days, despite segregation, education was public, though as usual, dedicated to the american dream. Now, again, privatization, religious usurpation of secularization by religious belief systems, has rendered education nearly extinct as a means of developing children to be good people as well as citizens.

This puffer revolution of today will eventually go away, leaving behind generations of repair but not necessarily repaired. If there is a comparison between now and then, what the puffers can do in four short years is enable an ideology, intellectual and common-sense destruction comparable to the irreparable physical destruction of gaza.

Let's face it, the world as we know today it will change and the only question, we are left with to ask ourselves, is what are we going to do about it? Together. Get off the streets and get into communes(communities).

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