The Tidal Wave of Airborne Muck

 Life in "Nam" is hellish.  The most often cited statistic about soon to be Fort Liberty is the mass revenue it brings to Fayetteville and Cumberland Country.  "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling" suffered casualties during the pandemic.  Gentrification has begun, and trees are being slaughtered like sacrificial lambs.  This new housing is reasonable, needed, and for the military.  Ghetto neighborhoods can be prime real estate, so only it takes time to convert once drug havens into livable middle-class housing.  I agree, and Ralph Huff and Menno Pinnick have been formative in planning and building new housing in Fayetteville.  What makes "Fayettenam" so challenging?   The issues at play in  Fayettenam vs. The Military Industrial Complex are metaphors for constitutional rights and the United States Code.  Many legal predicaments can be found in Cumberland County.  Since the Trump presidency regulation and oversight have stalled, and GOP-lead corporate America does as they please.  Examples?  When the FAA transitioned to a GPS navigation system in 2011 (this was their explanation) traditional flight paths were modified for the convenience and profit of commercial airlines.  Aircraft which once had to abide by a set of rules around a particular airport could fly wherever they wanted.  They abandoned most gratuitous flight diversion for downstairs neighbors and began to fly directly over downtown Fayetteville.  Downtown Fayetteville a logistical rail interchange for three railroads, and now commercial jets are spewing black soot and carbon over the indigent tent camps which have popped up.  Their life ain't easy.  It is hellish, and when you see them come into a grocery store to pee or buy food, you can see the desperation in their eyes.  They truly are living in the street, and these streets have become the refuse of forgotten society.  Living on the street may have been liberating and visceral, but when corporate America becomes empowered, the indigent population is the first to suffer.  When you walk out of your middle class home and leave your neighborhood enclave of hopeful peace and serenity, eventually and shortly you will be entering a war zone of the homeless.  This is the dynamic of Fayetteville, no longer "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling."  New police chief Kem Braden has cruisers monitoring traffic on thoroughfares for the first time in months, and violent crime has subsided to a degree, still driving and shopping in Fayetteville is brutal.  There is no benefit to anyone on the ground to see a Piedmont American Eagle Embraer ERJ-145 fly over your head.  The American flag on its tail is a tawdry attempt at patriotism, but signage is not conservation.  Norfolk/Southern painted their hulking AC consists with a "green" logos suggesting the earthquake of a moving coal train somehow was favorable.  Propaganda during the Trump presidency  became misinformation, fake news, and lies and was rampant to the point of absurdity.  His campaign to discredit science, academia, and the entire collective body of scholarly knowledge only was a ruse to implement his own evil corporate agenda and force Americans into barbarism.  This barbarism  of course serves corporate America.  If you live in an Ivory Tower or a Gilded Castle with millions of dollars to clean the air, the water, and the food, then it may not concern you.  For the rest of us Americans living in the field, Maslow's Hierarchy of needs still applies.  Consequently America now is under siege by massive corporate pollution; much of it is invisible and inaudible.  As sufferers of "The Havana Syndrome" profess, the human body and spirit operate in many planes.  One is electricity which drives our heart and controls our moods and thinking, and the other is the affective response of our entire sensory system.  Sight and sound only are two of these, but the GOP thinks otherwise.  What you feel and what your instincts tell you are far more useful to human survival.  At the moment we are under attack.