REGURGITATIONS

     My 50+ years on this earth I've had many extraordinary experiences.  I've have taken advantage of everything America had to offer.  Early on, at the age of nineteen, I learned my first adult lessons about participation in the American way of life.  Regrettably, I learned sometimes America is not what it is portrayed to be.  I learned the American Dream is not necessarily the goal we chase but the way we retell the story of America.  Revisionist history is often the American Dream.  We long for the good old days, not when America was necessarily great but when we were young enough not to know any better.  Don't misunderstand me.  America has done some great things.  Technology and War are two of our greatest things.  But when you take a closer look at the "Greatness" of America you will find it was never great for all, and rarely great for most.      I am astonished how many Americans can pr...

     Isis has attacked in America.   Why?   Because they should… just as we would.   Evidently ISIS decided it is better to fight us over here… than to fight us over there.   Sound familiar?        The terrorists. Terrorists.   A frequently used term these days.   The terrorists seem easily identifiable.   But before you can identify the terrorists you must identify the land you are standing on.   You must understand a terrorist is defined according to your perspective.   This is what America fails to understand.   Terrorism is a subjective term.      From the outside looking in the Civil Rights era of 1960’s (specifically 1968) America looked like a time of mass rebellion and revolution.   Citizens were marching and rioting, our government was killing our citizens in our streets and on foreign soil and our leaders were being assassinated.   Clearly, fr...

      American citizens are in a dysfunctional relationship with our government.   We love America but we are not IN LOVE with American government.   Yet we still keep going back to them no matter how much harm, pain and death they bring to us.   Even when we break up with one, we immediately find another who brings us the same pain and suffering.         Some of us lie down and give up feeling there is nothing we can do.   We feel our actions will make no difference.   We choose not to vote.   Others get angry and fight but we do not fight those who cause our suffering… we fight others.   We project our anger and resentment on THEM.   We blame THEM for our situation.   American citizens are in a dysfunctional, abusive relationship with a drunken, violent Uncle Sam.       We do not learn from the past.   We keep repeating the same mistakes. ...