America, a Feudal Land

As I try to make sense of America today, carefully I will avoid the adjective "modern."  I would have opened this editorial with "modern day America," but the adjective modern is not appropriate for describing America, her systems, or her sentiments.  America surprisingly is antiquated and not in a positive cultural way.  We are antiquated in our views, most notably on social class, accumulation of wealth, and civil rights.  In many ways America is just a conglomeration of red-necked, racist, hillbillies.  Much to my surprise they vote Republican.  It would seem democrats are the dwindling few of progressive-minded, Christian, socialists who actually acknowledge and care about their fellow citizens.  It is interesting to me that our Department of Defense recently conducted military exercises with Special Forces (as part of their certification) which represented possible or probably attempts at succession from our union.  Texas was at the top of the list.  Travel to Texas and I suspect you will be going back in time as you will many places in the American South.  America is not modern.  We are not modern, because the definition of modernism in art does apply to America's sensibilities now.  We are far from modern, and I for one long for that modernity.  Only can I pine for an era when George Gershwin visited Europe to great acclaim meeting notable composers of the time.  Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, and Igor Stravinsky were among the celebrities he met.  I choose the world celebrity as an American anachronism, because celebrity today refers to Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and the Kardashians.  What has happened?  America has slipped from the evolutionary cycle almost like through bending space and time.  We have entered an alternate universe occurring concurrently with the one that should be happening.  In our universe, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and the Kardashians have become royalty.  There can be only one explanation for this grift, and it is Big Brother.  When traditional means of communication of knowledge have been eradicated, Big Brother is free to impose his own superficial, devolving, and interruptive agenda.  If he continues to plant his aberrant seed slowly it will grow, intertwine, and possibly choke the life out of the real universe.  I would think God has something to say about this.  Truly it is a battle of good against evil, and good is losing.  Good is losing because of evil's means of implementation.  If one does not know the authentic definition of modernism, how can one know that violent, militaristic, internet games, pornography, and superficial app's will have no bearing on America's future?  Conversely they will continue to degrade and disassemble America's tried and true structures until anarchy develops.  Violent, militaristic, internet games, pornography, and superficial app's are a mask of what really is happening in America, and that clearly is explained by author Robert Reich.  Wealth is trickling up, and that is because America has become a small network of corporate monopolies. These few monopolies control production and thus price with no recognition of America's working people.  Wages remain stagnant, jobs are not plentiful, and violence results.  The combination of these two elements will tear America apart.  It is time to ask presidential candidates how they will solve this problem.  Corporations in America reign freely and without regulation rigging the market through high priced lobbying, and the wool is being pulled over the eyes of naive millennials by peppering them with immediate gratification.  It is time to grow up and smell the feces.