Deconstruction

What is it about Fayetteville other than Fort Bragg that deserves the pseudonym "Fayettenam?"  In proceeding decades of my lifetime (from 1962)  there have been moments of calm on the home front.  The obvious time period is after Richard Nixon got us out of Viet Nam for good.  We pulled out of Viet Nam around 1975.  While the late 70's were wrought with strife for me, because I was bused across town to a predominantly black junior high school, war time activities were coming to a close.  Then Ronald Reagan was elected president.  He was a Hollywood film actor.  A film actor became the American president.  Whether you agree with Reaganomics or not, during his tenure as president things were calm in America.  Until Bush Senior decided to start the first television war defending Kuwait against Saddam Hussein's hostile invasion, things were relatively calm.  There I said it.  W. did want to get back at Saddam Hussein, although he had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks on New York city's twin towers.  It was opportunism.  Rumsfeld, whom they dumped, and Dick Cheney were part of one of the most egregious political acts in American history.  They convinced George W. Bush to destroy a middle eastern country, and single handedly created ISIS or ISIL.  There was a Taliban.  There was Jihad.  There was the ayatollah.  Jimmy Carter was humiliated as he left office freeing the Iran hostages, so Iran is a trouble maker.  Did they attack Saudi Arabia?  I think not.  Ask the simple question, "Who has drones?"  If they have drones, then we sold them to them.  Who comes to mind?  Israel.  Bibi who also seems to be leaving office in a pattern for Donald Trump.  Corruption charges after they leave office.  Is there any way possible with what has transpired in America that the Donald could win re-election?  If he does, it will prove the system is corrupt to the core and is being manipulated in some way.  Voting machines.  Bribing electors.  All we can hope is that he is on the way out.  Before BRAC, Base Realignment and Closure, Fort Bragg had a sizeable military footprint.  It increased during Desert Storm.  What were twenty thousand troops became fifty, what we have now in addition to thousands of contractors.  Their imprint is sizeable, because Ground Forces command came because of BRAC.  Those high paid high ranking military generals didn't want to come to 'Nam, because Fayetteville is lacking in the most basic human amenities.  There are no jazz clubs.  There is not much up scale activity in a small southern town that would be lost without Fort Bragg soldiers dollars.  On what did they once spend those dollars?  Drugs, alcohol, and prostitution on Hay St.  There is a real question if Fayettenam is now better or worse because of Bill Hurley's clean up of downtown.  I don't really understand it.  Instead of catering to the needs of the military, which whether we like it or not may be drugs, alcohol, and prostitution, instead the far right has implemented their influence on American society mostly eliminating most of the great strides of American freedoms.  We are not hip.  We are not cool.  We are so conservative that a fart can barely emerge from our tight white asses.  "Watch whitey try to dance."  The rule of chaos.  If people feel good, you can't control them.  They have independence.  They have serenity.  I have been watching Eminem videos recently produced by Dr. Dre, and never have I seen a more candid, sardonic, needed social American discourse.  These videos have more insight, wisdom, and entertainment value than anything available today, and somebody just decided that it was over.  Music videos, these pioneering small vignettes of musical expression, overnight were extinguished because somebody wanted it.  They just said, "Let's nuke Hollywood and start over."  Fight Club.  What filled that vacuum of creativity was insipid, contrived, and conformist fodder.  We still have it.  Counter culture dug its head in the sand.  Dave and Craig quit network TV at the same time.  What a void!  Jon Stewart is scurrying madly to try to make Colbert seem palatable.  While they are eager to Trump bash at the onset, no one can replace the talent of former late night show hosts David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, and the rest.  Like the death of music television overnight, late night suffered from the same plight.  Like American jazz music these idioms reached their peaks and then just disappeared.  America is struggling for any replacement.  It is because we are not hip.  We are a sterilized, unfeeling, damaged lot of third world Americans who have been abandoned by Republica.  This scourge of money men, Mitch included, need to defend their views and policies on the chopping block of angered and disillusioned poor Americans.  It has happened before in many other countries.  How has Fayettenam changed as a result of BRAC?  It has not been good.  The affluent always have traveled to the beach or the mountains on the weekends leaving Fayettenam to its own devices.  What are they?  The military industrial complex which is supported by private contractors.  They have not interest in or support for the local populace.  They are vultures gobbling up a town for their own perseverance.  What do we have on weekends?  We have rail activity.  This rail activity seems to be watched over by aviation activity in various forms.  Yesterday for the very first time I actually saw the Compass Call aircraft with its 360 fuselage born radar.  It has the ability to monitor and scramble all kinds of electronic activity by its enemy, but who is that?  Usually it is an FBI shell plane with a muffler which beginning on Saturday mornings drones incessantly over the tree tops in Fayettenam.  To this day we still do not know what it is doing.  I assume it is related to CSX Corp.  It used to badger me pretty well as does the Gulfstream jet that takes a shit over my yard a few times every day.  I just wave.  It is like no man's land, and that my friends is why America is on drugs.  Rail traffic is at an unprecedented level, and CSX posted first quarter earnings of over eight hundred million dollars.  That is almost a billion dollars in only three months, and the major interest in that company is a hedge fund owner.  We know who controls what in America, and our quality of life never will be the same.  We may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but the invisible pollution in our atmosphere would kill the holy Roman empire.  No one will acknowledge it both sound and electricity.  It is destructive.  The man expunged good sounds and vibrations and replaced them with manipulative, murderous, mind altering chaos.  Deconstruction has begun.