AN IDLE/IDYL THREAT
SOMETHING’S changed. Admit it. I can sense it in the air. It’s subtle, but not so subtle. Like not feeling the obsessive need to read the news every day I’ve felt for over a year. No more need to check CNN, then NPR, BBC and NHK to make certain I really know what’s going on in America. Whew! It’s like idling back a fine tuned race car to just take it out, top down, for a pleasant ride.
Are things getting back to “normal,” then? While I relish the feeling of relief, I don’t think one can ever reclaim innocence, in this case, political innocence. America came unimaginably close to a TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese. Now things feel better, despite the desperation and death of a plague ravaging all about. In fact, I feel our nation skirting THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor even more now.
These are unprecedented times, certainly for me. Nations come and go, and while “other” nations may do so, it is always as unthinkable that one’s own nation might “go,” as it is that all humans must face their own mortality and death. Unthinkable, but not implausible. These days, we’ve been given a shot across the bow — COVID-19 — warning us to re-examine and fix our myriad national infrastructures for the future, and a moment back in the warm sunshine of yesteryear — our perceived change in national attitude and politics, but what they together amount to is a an idle/idyl threat. A warning that all is not necessarily what it appears. It is, however, a time for the next generation to step up to the plate and take leadership and responsibility for nothing less than an entirely new generation, an event that invariable happens every decade but is always unprecedented.
https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Are things getting back to “normal,” then? While I relish the feeling of relief, I don’t think one can ever reclaim innocence, in this case, political innocence. America came unimaginably close to a TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese. Now things feel better, despite the desperation and death of a plague ravaging all about. In fact, I feel our nation skirting THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor even more now.
These are unprecedented times, certainly for me. Nations come and go, and while “other” nations may do so, it is always as unthinkable that one’s own nation might “go,” as it is that all humans must face their own mortality and death. Unthinkable, but not implausible. These days, we’ve been given a shot across the bow — COVID-19 — warning us to re-examine and fix our myriad national infrastructures for the future, and a moment back in the warm sunshine of yesteryear — our perceived change in national attitude and politics, but what they together amount to is a an idle/idyl threat. A warning that all is not necessarily what it appears. It is, however, a time for the next generation to step up to the plate and take leadership and responsibility for nothing less than an entirely new generation, an event that invariable happens every decade but is always unprecedented.
https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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