the evolution of a revolt

Revolt is such an overused word. We see the word used advertising the latest gadget for our tecno-head, whatever fashionable change to the status quo that is just then being elevated for worship. In my way of mind, the best revolt exposes. Simple exposure would go a long way in this world of ours. People will become increasingly aware of how their government in times of economic distress. The new openness of the internet ( a phrase I use with a certain irony, because I know a lot of secrets that have never surfaced on any of the websights I have happened upon), is the chink in the armor that the vast majority of people can swarm through. There is no army on earth that can stop an uprising in the states. The revolt might take place in a voting booth, as it should in the best of times, and seemed like it might be with Obama coming in on the heels of the Nightmare Times under the Bush Cheney Cabal of Neo Nazi's.

In Illinois, there has been a recent flurry of legislators making out like they are reform just enough to woo the voters and pretend to be in action. I look at a lot of politicians like they are swindelers of a sort; when you hear about all the money they toss around in contracts, and who tends to make money off of a politicians legislating, you can trace who has their strings. This has always worried the average american -- we like to pretend that a vote is enough to change anything much. Or, we get like me, who is so hopelessly mired in the necessary evil frame of mind, where politicians are the ultimate puppets.

I was a lot happier when I could ignore politics, believe it was a game controlled by the fat cats and there was nothing a poor boy from Indiana was ever going to do about that. This came after loving politics for years like a mission, the way I would show my anger at the injustice around me, and fight for the people I love. When I was let down time and again by the people I worked with, or just out right defeated by larger forces (like the NRA who trounced our hand gun control initiative. Now I look at this world and am mostly baffled. I can see so many forces at work, everywhere... the various pockets of power throughout the globe. At the base of the problems is just an ape that is easily misled by himself and science, con men and lovers.

I hold out a hope that a change in rhetoric can have an impact of the material world. The feminist certainly believe this and have plenty of theories I enjoy. I think they over-estimate the push and pull of words and genetics, being an advocate for the sociobiological view of humanity as a clever ape.

Now that I have a new computer and a wi fi modem, I really feel like I am ready to do a lot more writing in the blogs. I have been writing, mind you, and have about fifty or more pages of this and that to put in the blog some ambitious day in the future...

I am anxious to get back to some story telling that is outside of my books. I miss writing comedy, and have a number of ideas...