h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(Styx)

Once long ago, a word from your lips and the world turned around.
But somehow you've changed, you're so far away
I long for the past and dream of the days with you, Madame Blue

Disclaimer: This is not about US bashing of bashing of anyone for that matter. Just thoughts of how different things seem sometimes from what they used to be...

On the way to w**k today, I was thinking about the various items of disturbing news from the US over the last months. The debacle of the national budget, where it seemed that for some, the state of the country seemed secondary to party politics. The reactions to the Occupy Wall Street. And yesterday, the madness at UC Davis.

And mainly, I felt sad. Sad that the country that has given hope of freedom - and actual freedom - to so many over generations seem to have been stuck in a quagmire of ... I don't know what it is. But brown and gray and sticky and dreary, it is.

And I felt even sadder when I tried to think about where today's beacon of hope, humanity and freedom is. Yes, there are individuals who figths and shines and should be honoured. But a leading nation?

Maybe it's just that the fog was enveloping Denmark and everything seemed a bit dark and gloomy: http://wp.me/p1ttD-5I

Red white, and blue, gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore.
Red, white, and blue, the future is all but past.
So lift up your heart, and make a new start
And lead us away from here

You have it in one, Santra. What is good for the people is always trumped by what is good for whichever political party is in charge.

It's probably always been. It just seems that it's being taken to more extremes these days. That - or the press does no longer do anything to keep 'em in check (another favourite rant of mine for another day or time)