It don't mean a thing...

Just call me Uncle Buck

you go with the blog you get, not the blog you want... my 1st choice wasn't available, so instead we have "dystopian vistas", a quite meaningless title if i say so myself.

on the other hand, i'm used to being ignored, and i don't expect this offering to rise up above ground level into the gun sights of the official minders of such things. so in fact, my musings will be invisible -- making for the most dysfunctional, disrupted vista of all.

i'm interested in the general decline of what was once referred to as the american dream. what a quaint and bygone notion! instead of a future of hope, opportunity and great promise, we're mostly running scared these days. i know i am. back in the 1960s, when i was a young pup, the sky was the limit; anything was possible -- we went to the moon, after all. now, we're in the midst of a great contraction. our resources are drying up. if you're a working class person, your standard of living is declining, and it'll decline precipitously in the near future -- with the wealth siphoned off and sent abroad, where the wealthy will go to escape the cataclysm they are creating in our midst.

i live to work, and work to live. when the day comes that i can no longer work, or work no longer can sustain me, what's the point in going on? the death panels that sarah palin's ghost writers evoked are not a pale, tea party phantom. they're the real deal, as we march boldly into a world where you pull your own weight or you perish. the old, the weak, the sick, especially the poor. you can't catch a break; you get broken down and pitched into the bin. it's a rather social darwinist notion -- there's no compassion whatever. welcome to our world.

but that's grist for another day... i'm simply wasting away a soggy sunday afternoon right now; there's plenty of time to grind it on down later.

it's too easy, i know, but i hope to chronicle some of the more glaring contradictions contained in the conventional wisdom as i go forward. how can we "cut spending" according to the wishes of the tea party cadres, while exempting the war profiteers and big corporations from the same fiscal discipline expected from the rest of us? localities in this most conservative state in this most conservative part of the country are looking for scapegoats and whipping boys, just send us a new military base or defense contractor to stimulate the local economy -- on uncle sam's dime, of course!

does that sound like the usual leftwing bullshit? i guess so. i'm nothing if not unoriginal. i don't make any claims to being a prophet, or even a paul revere in the night. there are plenty of others like me, and i don't expect to make any waves -- but i already said that. i just want to add my voice, just in case anyone's listening. it's the least i can do, after all, until even this is silenced in the name of profitability and raising the GDP.