Catastrophe

Don't expect more than anguished rambling here, I have no answers to the biggest problems. Obviously, something is very bad, very wrong, very sick about our American culture and society.

Never in our past has there been school rooms full of children shot to death. Every weekend in the cities hundreds are killed or injured. Suicide is at an all-time high, as are drug overdoses. Depression is epidemic, anxiety medications are by far the biggest sellers. Most Americans are overweight, diabetes and heart disease are rampant.

A majority of marriages in America fail over time, a fewer number prevail. Fewer couples are even bothering to marry.  Generations of children have virtually no father in their daily life. Fewer than ever before even believe there is a Higher Power. 

Day and night, American mainstream media is chock full of entertained hating, identity politics drama and division, cold and ugly elitism, and staged, unquenchable materialism. 

Folks are determined to buy the fake version of happiness, and pretend it's a bargain. But, not enough gold chain and Maserati gods to keep the illusion going forever, the hectic obliviousness to others' abject, street rubble suffering has become the normal all around us. 

We are far sicker in America than those controlling the power bases will admit, but it's no secret.

Catastrophe in some major form is surely coming, and a cultural collapse of moral structure will be swift and unsparing in its scope. We have no idea how much there is to lose, but the approaching global recession will be more proof that our country and many others are gravely endangered.