Shining gerontocracy on a hill
America remains mired in permanent crisis, and has done so for years. We’re made to believe that we should accept it as just a normal state of affairs, that nothing can be done, and so the crises and their severity increase exponentially as the young pick up the tab to fund what has become a spectacle and gravy train for the old. The elderly oversee the parceling of the corpse of what was once America, and could have been something more idyllic, more enduring,
The children of the Greatest Generation seem to have absolutely no care about what comes after them, and so they’re going out in a narcissistic bloodbath of sour grapes, taking the nation with them.
Our leaders are old, the voters are old, every vote, every executive action, every legislative abomination benefits exclusively the elderly who hold our future in a white knuckle grip. We must face soberly the question of what will the United States look like in 10, 20, or 30 years’ time. The Geriatric Class does not appear to care, and our current political system clearly is designed to only take into account their desires, and has apparently enacted a creeping self-destruct mechanism to ensure that the America that comes next will be one not worth saving. Is it worth saving? What form would salvation come in? Not democracy, not voting, not a “working through the current system”. We’ve tried it, and it’s brought us deep into Hell. Democracy is truly the god that failed, and yet the fallen idol is still worshipped, its religion still taught to the next generation of congregants. Its become a hollow religion, a suicide pact, and what is needed now is Reformation, an energetic apostasy, a Cursus Honorum. Honor, that archaic concept, does not exist among elected officials today. Professional con artists with the personality and depth of used car salesman oversee our rapid decline
We could look to the Old World, to the early Roman Republic, who held honor as a character trait worth acquiring, and make some attempt to impose it. But do we have the will? Would the values of the Old World thrive in what increasingly feels like a socio-political purgatory? Rome became an historical cautionary tale for future generations. America may well follow, an example made by God of what not to do, when civilization is rebuilt. But will those who know better really go silently without so much as a complaint?
