The Larger Picture

The pressing topic on my mind is ignorance that breeds insolence.  Bad behavior was popularized by a trend in television programming.  I can't remember the year or the network, but one of the shows which exploited bad behavior was Jerry Springer.  Here was an intelligent man who sold out.  The green becomes the holy grail.  It does not matter the road taken, high or low.  Television became an example for what not to do.  It was renegade, and the harm it has done to American society is irreparable.  Reality TV followed, when in reality networks chose to dump talent because it was more expensive than exploiting common Americans.  It was not difficult to dupe the public on becoming the new slate of "actors" in these cheap and tawdry shows.  Evidently trash sells, and television never looked back.  Because Washington pulled the plug in public education, the youth of America have had to example to follow.  Their parents are too busy trying to make ends meet.  Teachers are being threatened and abused.  Television has turned to trash for programming.  It is no surprise America has become ignorant, addicted, and violent.  The pinnacle of this ignorance is openly Americans have discarded the notion that God has their back.  We feel so forsaken it has become incumbent upon us to determine our own gender.  The monstrosity of this idea, the sheer narcissistic audacity to believe we determine our own gender is representative of the impending fall of humankind.  If you are so self absorbed to believe that only your own personal issues are of consequence then America has failed you.  We have not provided the adequate social, religious, or cultural education for you to be a productive citizen.  The irony of this confusion, this willingness to ignore our own physiology in lieu of some erratic, by chance, malleable notion that we neither are male or female, the discarding of the far reaching rewards of human sexuality, only can be considered selfish.  If you only are able and willing to entertain your own opinions, then we arrive at 2016, a year characterized by overt opinion, division, and unwillingness to compromise.  It has been so well represented by a vindictive, dishonest, and divisive Republican party willing only to curry favor for immediate and superficial power in government, the example has been set.  It is no wonder we are in this predicament.  The truth really is those who feel this way, unsure of their own sex, have been forsaken by America.  They have been cast aside, alienated, and ignored by mainstream America.  They are the rejects, and to them the most important thing is vindication for themselves.  This is not the most effective station for a rewarding life in American society.  This divide, this separative movement has not been good for solidarity in America.  All ready we have become fractured in race and ethnicity.  Further divisions of America will prove not helpful in unifying a disparate populace.  To what have we and should we look to provide this unity?  Once it was sexuality.  Before Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffry Epstein, and the rest, sexuality once was the driving force of human life.  Never was it considered depraved, perverse, or rebellious.  It was a given.  It was manufactured and provided by God, our God to augment and fulfill our lives.  With devolution of America and her traditional values, sexuality has been perverted.  We have become wary, cautious, and doubtful of this innate human gift.  This is upsetting to me, because at the age of fifty-eight, still I am single.  Never before did I have to search for the reason for my human nature.  It was provided to me by my Creator, and I was grateful.  Now humans have interfered with this process, and this magical bond, this God-given spiritually-driven physicality is a shadow of its former self.  With the demise of overt heterosexuality will be the demise of the human race.  I am not a homophobe.  Fully I understand the need and desire for everyone to have someone.  If you are not cut out to gel with the opposite sex, then it is at your disposal to seek companionship elsewhere.  I do not believe this alternate choice should become a platform for your life, nor should it give you notoriety within American culture.  This is what the LGBT movement desires, recognition for their difference.  They want to be heralded simply because they are different.  Because they found difficulty mitigating a sometimes tenuous track of heterosexual romance, they are to be celebrated.  I will be blunt in my opinion.  Get in line.  Why should a lesbian be given greater consideration over a man?  The answer is it is a ploy.  It is a ploy which has been devised and implemented to favor the LGBT community.  You are lesbian and so you prefer the sweet nectar of women as opposed to the foul stench of males testicles?  Get in line.  Why should you step to the front of the line?  It has been the same for thousands of years.  Just now lesbian women are realizing the ultimate prize of the female?  The female form has been prized since its inception, so it is no great surprise recently empowered butch women decide they want the same.  I don't respect this perspective.  I am surrounded by man hating lesbians each day I venture out of the house.  Like the newly targeted and oppressed white devil of the middle-aged Caucasian man, I now am the target for the wrath and failure of American society.  Most of this is because of Republican, Dixiecrat, aspirational autocrats operating in the pattern of Strom Thurman.  Certainly Senator Lindsey Graham sets no example of a pattern of exemplary behavior for American living.  He is a known hypocrite, deserter, and traitor.  If you look at the United States Senate, no longer do we have any shining examples of exemplary behavior.  Instead we have a promulgation of Reality TV, altercation created for monetary reward.  This is a failure of Capitalism.  When a nation becomes so smug and powerful that survival becomes trite, rest assured at some point that necessary survival once again will present itself in real time with a threatening of our environment, a coup of our government, or the health and well being of our people.  It is here.  It is time for greater ideals once again to take root solidifying the American way and attempting to provide the support system each and every one of us so desperately need.  It is time to stop being selfish and see the bigger picture.