Robert F. Kennedy Jr Nails the Deep State
“There is no inevitability,” wrote Marshall McLuhan, “as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” And what is happening? What is happening is this: the greatest ailments of our nation are going undiagnosed by its leaders. The most obvious urgencies are the first to be ignored. And what are those urgencies? That our economy and politics have become addicted to war… That war, which has become an abstraction for so many because we are so distanced from it, threatens to escalate out of control… That fifty-seven percent of Americans cannot put their hands on a thousand dollars in an emergency… That hateful division is has become the foundation of electoral politics… That more than half of Americans are sick in body or mind… That children are growing up without reliable coordinates, without communities that hold them, attending schools where they spend much of their days on screens… That we are undergoing a crisis of meaning in our time, a progressive disenchantment and loss of spiritual orientation; and this crisis is rendering some of us apathetic, defeated, and addicted and rendering others fundamentalist about certainties that often involve putting other people down… That our dwindling spiritual powers are not keeping up with our growing technological ones… That our government increasingly acts as a wet nurse for a tiny group of powerful elites… That the party of peace and free speech has become the party of war and mounting government control… That the other party acts as if caring for our miraculous earth is a sign of shameful weakness… That elections now require the killing of democracy in order to save it… That our lives—as these urgencies accumulate—are often both frantically busy and prone to distraction upon distraction… Read More
