American Boethius: The Crumbling of an Empire
Housing is unaffordable. The most educated generations in American history are waiting tables, delivering sandwiches, and greeting restaurant patrons. Congressional campaign staffers are fucking in Amy Klobuchar’s chair in the Senate hearing room. “Our greatest ally” is responsible for the deaths of over 10,000 women and children as the assault on Gaza continues. Those who speak against these atrocities are being censored in a global witch hunt by Big Tech. Half a million Palestinians are battling starvation. Latin American migrants seeking refuge have unknowingly subjected themselves as pawns in our politics. Kierkegaard’s aphorism on reality drums in my head. A bleak and thunderous humor. We carry on as if everything’s fine. The mainstream political tribes continue their banter, and their supporters, unaware of how similar their politcians are. Something that neoliberals and hard conservatives have in common is that they both cling to worlds that no longer exist. Liberal tolerance is weakness and conservative angst is downright cruel. Both venerate ideals that never amounted to anything more than an empty hypocrisy. Between mass shootings, the decay of community, neighbors shunning each other over party affiliation, and the mental health crisis running rampant throughout the West, societal wounds are self-inflicted.
