Decent encapsulation - leaving US with,
Where to vest all that power/$ - other than in fewer and fewer obscenely-large pockets?
If that is the/a Major Question, it is a philosophical one not managed (manageable?) via the framers of the Constitution. Their premise was that "free people would remain vigilant!" against all the forces that tend --> corruption.
Nobody expected devolvement of vox pop into a homogenized mass of people too busy just 'consuming', too bemused, lazy? even to pay attention - while flaccidly sorta wishing for "matters to be handled Wisely" cha cha cha
(perhaps by the Sooth Fairy?)
So if we can't expect (the half who even bother to vote) to persistently demand legislation which restores the value of A Vote VS the power of The PACs to buy large blocs of representatives; if we can no longer expect that many votes shall be 'informed' ones; and if we know that the aim of every Corporation is to become as near-monopoly as ever it can finagle: Who does that leave to oversee either bizness or the Country?
And if it is the trend of groups >100 millions to behave in this way.. well, so much for all that political theory -- perhaps each of the US States (or small blocs) should become Nation States; gamble that a manageable size of population just might find enough common cause.. to get off asses and participate [???]
(With nukes, Anyone can 'kinda expect borders to be respected' - see Israel.)
Maybe we just Like To Watch:
present trends of wealth concentration project that we may expect the 1-2% soon to Own US, say 2/3 GNP == close enough. Something will always rush in to fill the vacuum of universal Ennui. What shall we call the New Millennium Murica then? (Corruptocracy is so unmellifluous a word)
I think 'we've become unutterably Boring.. the only Dreams are for more More and yet-MORE [of whatever stuff is New New New this month]. Fat chance of finding 'Renewal', an aim to rethink any aims gone awry - amidst a homogenized mass afflicted with terminal Consumption Disease. Then too - watching such rapid decline is never terribly amusing.. it's just like watching Fav Murican Tee Vee plots. {Ugh}
