The AR-15

As hurricane Dorian looms in the distance, Gump clips on Colbert repeatedly prosecute the case for climate change.  Catagory 5?  "I've never even heard of a catagory 5 hurricane."  It is infuriating.  Ineptitude.  The worst lame duck presidency possibly in the history of this nation, and he has yet to be voted out of office.  Also prosecuting the case for the demise of Christianity, a media and populace which engage passively while spectator politics rules the ratings at the expense of humanity.  Humans are dying in mass quantities.  Every day another searing and antagonistic blow to American sensibility, and passively Congress collects their pay.  You have two choices.  Really understand the direness of the Trump charade, the threatening of the planet and Christianity, or hide our heads in our iPhones.  It is obvious what the majority of America has chosen to do.  The only more potent satire I can recall is the news broadcasts in the film Robocop.  It is infuriating.  The Assault Weapons ban of 1994 never should have been let to expire.  Even with constitutional guarantees no American needs to own an assault weapons or high capacity magazines.  The only reason we we do is because of capitalism.  Possibly a handful of old school American survivalists want to own them.  They build their own underground bunkers and practice nuclear war.  The rest of America, addicted to substances and brainwashed by a lackluster public education system and tainted media, own AR styled rifles simply because they think their rights to own such a weapon are in jeopardy.  It is a common ploy, and American capitalism is rife with similar selling schemes.  We are being manipulated on a grand scale by Big Brother himself.  No one truly thinks about their existence, what is right and appropriate, and how we should live.  We react to the bombardment of frenetically-paced media meant to scare us.  Turn off the tube, the wire, or others and you will find yourself in a different universe, except in Fayettenam.  A different thread.  A small southern town which at one time was not just another Jacksonville, a boulevard lined with strip malls and strip clubs.  The history of Fayettenam is unique.  Given an opportunity to comment on Fayetteville those outside of Fayetteville old money will tell the truth.  What is the truth?  The truth has changed and not that long ago.  Bill Hurley decided to clean up Fayetteville, and with that colloquial cleansing came a vacuum.  The vacuum was downtown.  Cross Creek Mall successfully killed the shopping district of downtown, and that was okay.  When it was built Cross Creek Mall was the pinnacle human achievement and expression.  It was a metaphor of the 1980's.  Gump is the metaphor of the 2000's.  Cross Creek Mall offered an upscale, rewarding, and fun shopping experience.  Whether pundits want to critique Reaganomics or not, businesses back then did invest back into their companies.  Unlike today they took a portion of their profits and shored up their businesses by reinvesting in infrastructure and labor.  By labor I mean subsidizing a financially sustainable work force.  This is the major tenet America has discarded in lieu of corporate wealth.  For some reason the controlling oligarchy of America erroneously feels compelled to collect, store, and control all of the money.  Capitalism cannot work this way.  With no money to flow through the system of goods and services, no one can purchase any goods and services.  It is questionable if America even has any goods and services anymore.  Manufacturing has been bused overseas to migrant labor camps.  Skilled professions have been replaced by laptop computers.  Our food is imported from foreign green houses.  If one were to scrutinize American ports, it is said there if very little going out.  Everything is coming in, and evidently with Gump's latest tariffs, it is coming from Red China.  This is not news.  We have watched globalization come to fruition under the ruse of economic opportunity.  When Americans do not have enough money to buy goods, we should sell to other countries.  When Facebook and Google can't seem to earn revenue from its American users they sell political ad's to Russian shell user accounts.  It is opportunism at its best and worst.  The problem is without conservation and oversight, we could hunt and fish Alaska into ruin.  America is on the brink of the same phenomenon.  We have been picked clean to the bone, and the only way to survive is to begin again with a reorganization of socioeconomic priorities with human beings at the center.  We are far from that now.  Instead we are an army of androids with a small amount of expendable capital.  The oligarchy takes it, and in a few short decades the American landscape will be littered with homeless, derelict, angry mutants.  The rich will be living in the air or underground creating the clean air and water they need to survive.  Creating anarchy in the sake of profit is nothing new.  The AR-15 sales boom was a direct result of mass shootings.  How can we rationalize such a reaction?  When the government threatens to take away a particular constitutional rights, America reacts aggressively.  The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 never should have been allowed to expire, and those who allowed that to happen largely are responsible for the deaths of the hundreds of innocents souls murdered in recent American mass shootings.  If those AR-styled rifles were not available, then it would not have been possible to kill as many people at one fell swoop.  Period.  America does not need and never needed assault weapons, and there is only one reason why we have them.  It is because they make someone a profit.