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by Mark Lesseraux from Pressenza Website
In the first section of the poem there's a line that reads,
Over the course of the last few years, this
line has continued to pop up in my mind as I've watched the clashes
between the so-called "right" and the so-called "left" in the US
become more and more contentious.
Although it's rarely if ever spoken about in the Western legacy media news, in actuality, the core economic and military agendas among the political class's traditional "left" and "right" in the US have become basically indistinguishable. 2
...there's no longer a locatable, meaningful difference between the traditional political left and right when it comes to their shared dedication to programs such,
The needs and mandates of the voting public have become thoroughly secondary considerations to these careerist servants of power.
As of 2024, there are no mentionably consistent exceptions to the donor owned model among the politicians in either major political party.
Sadly, the US electoral process has been completely hijacked by the multibillionaire donor class over the course of the last 15 years as a result of massive campaign finance deregulation. 3
At this point, candidates' careers are bought and paid for by individual multibillionaires and organizations of super-wealthy donors like
...etc.
All of these orgs contributed 100s of millions of dollars to political candidates in both parties from 2020 - 2024. 4
This loss of our "center", this
disappearance of long relied upon points of reference, has generated
an anxiety, an uneasiness and, sadly, a tendency among many of us to
hunker down more and more determinately in our respective red and
blue fighting corners.
As Plato once put it in his "Allegory of the Cave",
These writers were somewhat playfully, though in one or two cases quite seriously, implying that Donald Trump is the equivalent of the,
I've also heard Republican friends of mine insinuate or outright say that,
To be
perfectly honest, on a few occasions over the course of the last
eight years, I've had thoughts along these lines about both the
Republican and the current Democratic parties.
Again, I speak not from on-high here but rather as one who has partaken of this debilitating and addictive drug.
When we do this we're behaving like sheep wandering around in circles in a narrow, fenced-off corporate media made pen.
Even more interestingly, this pen, the seeming limitations on what we believe our options for action are, is ultimately illusory. I'm digressing though.
We'll have to discuss possible exit routes from these illusory limitations in a future article.
I'm going to attempt this little analysis of "The Second Coming" through a somewhat provincially tinted social-historical lens that takes into consideration what has transpired during the 104 years since the poem was written.
No sources other than my own thoughts and feelings will be used to come up with this interpretation.
Scouts honor.
The individual and collective trauma generated by this era of alienation, violence and despair has produced a forgetfulness of our true "nature".
This forgetfulness has "drowned" what was formerly a
"ceremony of innocence", of interconnection and interdependence
among our human species, and turned it into a sectioned off world of
competing, warring factions focused on the acquisition of power and
wealth.
After "twenty centuries of stoney sleep", of forgetfulness of Self, what has come forth and is headed toward us during this particular historical turn within the ever-widening cycles of time, has appeared as something that is, at least on its surface, terrifying...
One fairly popular interpretation is that we're all on a highway straight to the pit of hell. I think this is a pretty shallow reading though, personally.
I tend toward believing that the poem is hinting at the inevitability of a long overdue "house cleaning" that'll be initiated by a particularly audible alarm clock with an appropriately scary ringtone.
Something loud and powerful enough to wake us from "twenty centuries of stony sleep".
These newly developing events are rarely spoken about in any depth in corporate Western media.
I've included links to what I view to be two of the most relevant articles I've penned within the context of what's been alluded to and/or spoken of so far in this piece of writing. 6,7
I strongly
encourage anyone who's interested in gaining a deeper understanding
of the massive changes that are happening and that are about to
happen on a global scale, to read these articles, which can be
linked to in the citations section below at numbers six and seven.
Heck, we might even end up better off as a
result of encountering it and learning from it, whatever "it" is...
There is one core coherent objective left for 99% of this country, and for that matter, for 99% of this world to align with now:
Until power rests in the hands of the social whole as opposed to it being wielded by a wealthy few,
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