The Lost Virtue of Physical Love

 The silence of the land line is unnerving.  Punctually for months the National Heart Association (or is it the American Cancer Society?) calls at 9:15 a.m. and at noon like clockwork and annoying.  The "beep" of the robo call and then the static crowd noise in a large room.  The salutation always is, "Hello?," spoken as a question.  When they say it this way, it creates naivete, like they are not responsible for the solicitation they are about to pander.  The Cancer Society has had cures for cancer for decades, but they will not receive federal funding if they cure cancer.  The same is true for the rest of the medical establishment.  The Socialist/Communist federal dollars will not flow if they have to labor to create a product or cure an illness.  Thus we sold America out to the highest bidder in a gross and distorted misperception of the United States Constitution.  Wall Street, our ingenious economic construct for the wealthy, is America's metaphor for not producing a product.  They are the torch that will bring down the world's most powerful free market system with narcissism, conceit, and evil.  How are we to understand what evil is, if there is no God?  The plan to eradicate God from American consciousness began three decades ago, and it began with print media.  For so long printed periodicals were the conscience of America.  The free press and their management wielded authoritarianism beyond academia, because to flourish in academic one had to be published.  The internet destroyed print media.  The internet destroyed commercial music.  The internet destroyed television and now film.  At its inception the internet was a clever subculture for academia, because it began in academia as a network of connected databases.  Only recently and perhaps with the passing of "Net Neutrality" has the internet also been sold out.  Rebranding the internet as trade and industry, its purpose or use quickly was sublimated to serve capitalist America.  Its counter-culture was cancelled in the most specific example of cancel-culture we can find.  The ensuing silence of the land line is unnerving almost like a Cold War has descended upon America.  It is quiet, dark, and solitary not unlike a communist enclave.  With this quiet comes an illusion of serenity, but if you abide by this void, the lack of will and human energy, only what is immediate and ambient will proliferate.  What is this in "Fayettenam?"  Startlingly it is very different than any other place in the nation.  The Covid 19 pandemic has cast an irreversible scar on the American landscape not unlike our wars in Korea and Viet Nam.  Instinctively I was aware of ensuing war in North America, because aside from Viet Nam my generation has escaped life threatening plight.  America's first "television war," first intimidating a weak Iraqi army and then bombing the wrong nation's life-providing  infrastructure from the sky, doesn't suffice for a generation's grievous survival.  When reflecting upon centuries of world history, pundits of 2012 predicted as much.  They were a decade off, and that margin of error is negligible.  I thought George W. Bush was Satan, but I was wrong.  It is Donald Trump.  My inquisitive factual complaints about a deregulated society have been cast as psychotic, conspiratorial, and not worth consideration.  Jesus was the example, and most of us don't understand the far-reaching scope of sacrificing your only son for the world.  With God erased from American consciousness, it is easy to cast anything that prohibits your monetary profit as bad.  The Republican Party has been using this as their political strategy as long as we can remember.  It only took Donald Trump winning the presidency to cement this ideology into place as a sitting president spewing lying rhetoric.  His charisma was so strong, and weak-minded people so gullible, it only took his words to coax a violent insurrection out of his followers.  It is Biblical in proportion, and we should understand it this way.  Donald Trump's attempted siege of American freedom, economic mobility, and enlightenment is no less than any other despotic conquering of weak people.  With the staunch Christian leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, America resisted this almost covert attempted coup.  Almost diplomatic in design, January 6th is as egregious as any bloody revolution in world history.  The good news is American fastidiousness, strength, and rebelliousness sustained us for the right reasons.  Those reasons are penned in the Constitution of the United States.  Although America has survived Trump's assault, including Covid 19, our wounds are deep and festering.  They are filled with racism, misogyny, pedophilia, radicalized homosexuality, and violence.  Trump accomplished many of his goals while president.  Our youth lost two years of education at the helm of violent internet-based video games.  Not only were they starved of moral, ethical, Christian teaching, they were indoctrinated by pop culture run awry.  One look at the days headlines, and America sees her shortcomings.  It is stark, dark, and seemingly irreversible.  The beginning of the change in America is work, but work is available.  The trouble is work, at the hands of Donald Trump for four years as president, means something different.  The quality of life for Baby Boomers is something far different than what is being offered us today.  Jim Crow Jr., the Plantation, and slave life were rejuvenated by a man who is nothing more than a Southern televangelist hawking lies and selling snake oil.  How are we to refurbish America, when the socioeconomic landscape now is run by gangsters?  Organized crime is the ambient dynamic in Fayettenam, and this is what sets us apart from the rest of America.  Fayetteville, with her anachronistic moniker, "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling," has succumbed to a murderous assault from an unknown disease.  While this pathogen has dealt mayhem to society, and while Washington has tried to provide relief, America has suffered a broken axle on the side of the world highway.  We no longer are a leading superpower.  If we had kept manufacturing at home and not sold out the American work force to cheap foreign labor, we could be.  We're not.  Corporate America chose to sell out America for the money.  They are rich, and we are poor.  Because of Covid 19, there is nothing in between.  It is Wall Street at the top, and the rest of us at the bottom.  We are living life in one big ghetto, and everyone is desperate.  We are weak from disease, undisciplined from two years of employment hiatus, and have forgotten the American Dream.  We don't remember what the good life is, so pop culture and social media are exploiting this gangsta life.  Turn on the tube and ignorance reigns.  It is because we have lost the virtue of love.