one nation, divided against itself

My mass hysteria has cooled a bit over the weekend.  Playing the Nats was exciting, we won one, they won one, and then we won another and they won another, and then we won the last one and won all of that enchilada.  But lately we have lost two to the LA Dodgers and have looked plumb pitiful doing it.  Wind out of Ken's sails.  Watching tonight's game is less like a treat and more like a duty..  The crowd can be dispersed by really good pitching.

I do believe there is sort of a culture of mass murder going on.  I wonder how deep you can go into it on the web .  Unlike bulemia or nazis where you can find people actually rooting for their cause I don't  think anybody actually promotes mass murder, so I don't know if you can get very deep into it.

It seems like it is a relatively new thing, well since the internet, it has taken on a sort of form, it has to include superguns and some kind of planning, not just shooting out your window on a sunny afternoon.  It seems like somebody should do some sort of researching on this, but if you did, and you published your findings wouldn't that just encourage it?  And then maybe they are going to do that mass murder thing anyway and they are only watching this crap on the internet to kill time before they can get all the pieces assembled.


I do think the US has a unique national makeup.  I'm not sure about that development thing, development seems to imply things working towards some final state, and I don't see any final state.  I think nations, young and old, are always changing, but the changes are not towards any goal.

At the height of the cold war the two top dogs were unique among nations in that we were both ideologies.  France, Germany, England, they were countries of French, Germans, and English.  Whether they had a king or a congress, were currently lefty or righty, they were still the same country.  But the Russians were commies and we were democrats.  The Russkies have lost their communism, and their empire and are now back to being, well what, this rather unpleasant country on the edge of western civilization, pursuing, well I guess a warm water port which they have coveted since the Czars, and, speaking of Czars,. a Czar-like leader.

But we're still a democracy, as long as you mean majority rule measured by voting.  But we're more divided than ever, moreso than in the sixties because once the unpopular war was over people went back more or less to getting along, as long as nobody mentioned Vietnam.  But this division seems more basic.  The Trumpists hate us liberals and moreso what they call the elites, people with any kind of education, in fact they hate education, and what is most important to them is fealty to our current leader.  And we liberals, we elitists, we fear their nihilist ways and their busting up of all the china in the nation.