And the nation survived to have a crack at becoming something different and better. And not everything the U.S. did between 1975 and 2001 was unworthy of respect, and some of that did reflect --at least so I believe-- ways in which American had been chastened by its blunders and sins and defeat in Vietnam.
Come to think of it, I’ve seen families –and marriages– go through crises, too, in which --after a time of great evil-- things somehow turn around and work themselves out, at least enough to get back into a more viable form. A kind of acceptable state gets restored withouth the dark realities that had surfaced ever really being worked through, without understanding having been achieved, without any dramatic experiences of personal transformation and enlightenment ever taking place.
And if I had to bet, this is what I would bet will happen in America in the aftermath of this Bushite regime. We’ll never as a nation face the dark truth about this time, but the music from our part of the world --i.e. from places like NoneSoBlind, and other parts of America where the dark truth is being openly discussed-- will continue to play into people’s minds and will to some degree get integrated into how people sense the meaning of this time. Some of the issues people like us have been raising will continue to operate on the national psyche, sometimes visibly and sometimes beneath the level that we can see.
But meanwhile, through a kind of muddling through, it is also possible that the forces of the good and the true and the beautiful will gradually reconstitute themselves in the American order, and that the heart and soul of America will gradually heal. Assuming we can get the fascists out of power next year, the longer the basic, pre-Bushite American order can keep on muddling without being overrun by the evil, the more chance the level of goodness has to rise.
It’s like a well that’s been pumped dry. (The American spirit and order represent the well, the water is the structures of goodness that are part of those things, and the pump is the evil Bushite regime that has been disposing of goodness in America as fast as it can.) If you stop the pump, by a gradual process of the groundwater seeping back into the well, the level of the water gradually rises to the level of the enduring water table.
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