Who are we as a country and society? That is the question all of us need to ask of ourselves after the latest embarrassment delivered by a s...
Who are we as a country and society?
That is the question all of us need to ask of ourselves after the latest embarrassment delivered by a seventy year old man with a fake tan, dyed blonde hair, and a penchant for birther conspiracy theories. Last week, in case you missed it or still believe climate change is a hoax, DJT announced that the U.S. will be backing out of the Paris Climate Accord. This decision comes against the advice of almost all world leaders, scientists, past presidents, business leaders, and more than half of the people he is supposed to represent. Relying on faulty data, skewed facts, and a keen misunderstanding regarding our changing environment, he has removed us, largely against our will, as a leader in clean energy innovation to a now disjointed backwater nation that refuses to believe in science. With that being said, I again ask, “Who are we?”
If you were born before the mid-eighties, you most likely remember a world borne out of an absolute. Capitalism is good and communism is bad. Such a simple concept was ingrained into my childhood, watching movies such as War Games, Red Dawn, or even Rocky IV, where our avatars of societal ideology literally battle for dominance. I remember reading Animal Farm, 1984, and Brave New World, with each story serving as parable to the evils of a society outside of the status quo, where financial gain and individuality took a back seat to communal gain and groupthink. In this country there was always the underlying promise that if we, as children, worked hard in school and then later in life, there was a world of opportunity available to us. In Soviet Russia, we were taught, there was no such opportunity, as citizens striving to support one another through socialist institutions would be trapped in financial servitude and exploited by the few who held all the power and wealth. Out of this “us vs. them” construct everything was measured and judged. Out of this absolute we have become a funhouse mirror version of what we were promised. Out of this dichotomy we regretfully have this president.
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