Our deep concern for the endurance of the venerable Democratic Republic is creditably founded in the current state of National dystopia and divisiveness, brought about by the unprecedented rule of Donald J. Trump. After almost two centuries as the universally recognized avatar of equality and justice, the American Nation has been tragically transmogrified into a reprise of a third-world autocracy.
The traditional American citizen, with recognizable cause, has been alarmingly disconcerted at such bizarre transmogrification of the Nation, to one, unprecedently eschewing respect for the Nation’s Constitution and Rule of Law, and morphing into an atavistically perverse and morally repulsive morass of autocratic misrule.
The venerable Founders’ creation of the radically new National polity, singularly dedicated to governance by, and for the “People,” as a proximate consequence of the populist election of Donald Trump, has shamefully been transmogrified to an unprecedented state of autocracy; one, singularly and existing for the egocentric and hubristic inclinations of its autocratic ruler. The established constitutional architecture of governance, mandating three functionally separate and independent governmental branches, mutually imbued with the authority to deter any excess on the part of the other, has, of late, been reduced to the single authority of an autocratic leader solely neurotically motivated by his perception of his own interest.
As a consequence, the traditional American citizen has stunningly witnessed a full measure of tyrannical rule, including, a Gestapo-like utilization of a Ku Klux Klan-style, masked militia, to arrest, incarcerate, and banish peaceful Hispanic Americans to foreign torture prisons, without due process, and startlingly contrary to established federal law, (“posse comitatus”), the illegal deployment of the military against America’s own sovereign states; allegedly to fight crime, but in perverse cempirical reality, to weild unlimited,. monarchial power. The troubled American citizen has also witnessed Donald Trump’s derogation of educational institutions, the media, and, bizarrely, the metaphysical existence of “truth, itself.
Such a heinous impact is horrifically universal, affecting every aspect of governmental function and of individual life. The present dismal state of the Nation has prompted fear and despair among traditional American citizens. Despite such nightmarish developments, we, in previous writings, have confidently predicted that the freedom-loving American Nation will soon prevail over such fearsome, ubiquitous tyranny.
In the interim, we are factually justified in the conveyance of some cheer to mitigate the contextual conglomerate morass of political misery by happily taking note of a heartening societal development, a “shiny object” of inarguably precious value has been recently uncovered to assuage the dire concern of our multi-troubled fellow citizens, which, indeed, may ultimately be more fundamentally significant than the thematic, temporal political dystopia.
As our regular readers are doubtless aware, we have been severely critical of the unwholesome substitution of natural conversation, viz., person-to-person or telephonic, by the facile, but socially inhibiting interaction of “smartphones.” The impact on the young has been especially negative; viz., the absence of personal, intimate, and identifiable interaction, among its other myriad of detrimental effects, results in a significant developmental handicap to the young by its empirical denial of the salubrious impact of the enlightening nuance of personal response; the latter, existentially necessary in the development of an individual sense of personhood and referable self-image. Studies report a significant increase in anxiety and depression among the younger generation who seem to exclusively communicate by smartphone, thereby stultifying the universally dynamic responsible for the development of personal identity and a referable self-image.
Despite, as recounted above, being troubled by the present political state of affairs of the Nation, we are nevertheless simultaneously heartened by the media-reported advent of the long awaited recognition of the psychological impact of smartphone communication and its consequent, salubrious limitation of their use by the young at school; the same is hoped to portend the advent of the apporopriate full recognition of the etiology of a longstanding societal inter-active impediment.
The vital recognition and media reported initial steps at the amelioration of the deleterious social effect of smartphone interaction, by their recent proscription at schools, albeit contextually unrelated to the presented theme concerning the Nation’s political morass, are nevertheless encouraging and serve an analogical function to the finding of a valuable small shiny object in a pile of offensive rubble. Such good fortune, in addition to constituting an unforeseen surprise, may serve as a small measure of positive response and, hopefully, an encouraging omen of the advent of better (political) times.
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