You shall reap what you have sown

The grim reaper turns in our direction, we can see his cold boney face. We ask ourselves: What has been sown? What shall be reaped?

We look back over the past sixty years; indeed we have planted the globe with false promises. The illusion of the "liberated self" the ultimate triumph of revolutionary humanism. To be sure we, here in the USA, have only carried forward the program of European design, giving it our own special character. Our naive evangelical enthusiasm for "democracy" and "liberty" are now forced upon other people at gunpoint. The national attitude of self complacency and smug hubris is evidence enough of the results of our two hundred year experiment with these revolutionary values. Everywhere the citizens of this erstwhile republic can be observed congratulating themselves on their deserving prosperity, their wise investment decisions, and clever maneuvering within the social sphere.

But there are some of us who know better. A handful of intellectuals, artists and the youth. They are not fooled, they see what is coming. The reaper is knocking at the door.

And what have we been doing with our immense wealth over the past sixty years? Toward what grand project? What higher purpose have we been aiming? Building our national drive-in fantasy land. Alas, the our education, our wealth, our hard work has been spent in the pursuit of self gratification. For we can see no other pursuit than the individual's whim in our great experiment of "liberty." Having harnessed huge amounts of energy towards the grand infrastructure of self-escape, egoism, and greed. We are now hollowed out humans, having plowed our collective soul under, along with the those seeds of discontent. What are we reaping? Global hatred.