Yesterday's News:

I wrote 3 pages in my journal yesterday about the economy. I'm a nerd. An aging nerd, at that. It's not really the economy that I wrote about, rather this notion of "having it all", American decadence, if you will. I also found these words by Merton, which he wrote in his journal in 1961. Either, that guy was ahead of his time or we haven't figured it out yet.
"I fear the ignorance and power of the United States. And the fact that it has quite suddenly become one of the most decadent societies on the face of the earth....The mixture of immaturity, size, apparent indulgence, and depravity, with occasional spasms of guilt, power, self-hate, pugnacity lapsing into wildness and then apathy, hyped up with wide-eyed inarticulate and wanting to be popular"

I love my country, and I winced at certain parts as I typed that out, because I want us to be better. I think we can be better. I'm just operating, as of late, under the notion that defiance and questioning the ruling class (and yes I specifically chose that term), is one of the greatest forms of patriotism there is. If we don't do this, we cant grow and change.