New Directions

The Patriot is going to go on a bit of a hiatus this Thanksgiving week. I have also been thinking of taking the blog in a new direction now that the elections are over. Frankly, I’m sick of writing about Republicans and Democrats when the truly important issues have nothing to do with which quasi-fascist party is governing in Washington. I think it more prudent to attack the root causes of injustice and suffering, the system itself, rather than to waste energy picking apart the minor philosophical differences between two political parties. Both parties are looking out for the same moneyed interests at the expense of the poor and working class, although the Democrat’s rhetoric is more appealing right now.

The cult of consumption is unsustainable. Let’s face it folks, American’s are pigs. We drive our big cars and watch our big televisions and gobble up way more than our share of the world’s resources. At the same time we champion the idea of free trade and perpetuate the fiction that a billion people in China can attain an American standard of living, despite the fact that the consequence of the rest of the world sharing on our supersize culture would be the total destruction of the environment. Where does it end? At what point will the profiteers put the interests of the common good above the interest of the corporate shareholder? How can this nation of self-identified “Christians” continue to live in a way that pollutes the earth and perpetuates poverty, simply for the sake of greater creature comforts?

These are some of the things I’ll be looking into after Thanksgiving.