Two constant perspectives
How to regain sanity and control while preparing for the future
by Mike Meyer
It’s time again for some perspective. It is very clear to me that we are at the end of the road for the US as a nation state. In fact, as I’ve said for some time, we are at the end of the road for the nation state as an organizational system for political administration planet wide. I think we, in the US, are just about ready to see that there is no other alternative but to let the Confederacy finally go in the form of Trumpistan. It is, sadly, impossible to humanely deal with a significant minority of the population that refuses to abandon racism and bigotry as a socially defining principle and have knowingly swallowed the ancient poison of a fascist dictator.
The roots of this, as many people have finally come to understand, go back to the colonial era conquest and destruction of indigenous states and almost all of the indigenous population that has never been atoned for or even openly acknowledged. Two centuries of racism mediated by western expansion and then the world wars and resulting industrial wealth of the first half of the 20th century has festered for the last fifty years with steadily declining ways to cover it up. The accelerating collapse of the US economy as a creator of strong and public communities over the last…
