Jeremiad Of The Wk.

And it's but Mon. All so good it was tough to excerpt. This section is especially mean & uncivil.

Men and women of stunning mediocrity and depravity led the monarchies of Europe and Russia on the eve of World War I. And America has, in its own decline, offered up its share of weaklings, dolts and morons to steer it to destruction. A nation that was still rooted in reality would never glorify charlatans such as Sen. Ted Cruz, House Speaker John Boehner and former Speaker Newt Gingrich as they pollute the airwaves. If we had any idea what was really happening to us we would have turned in fury against Barack Obama, whose signature legacy will be utter capitulation to the demands of Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry, the military-industrial complex and the security and surveillance state. We would have rallied behind those few, such as Ralph Nader, who denounced a monetary system based on gambling and the endless printing of money and condemned the willful wrecking of the ecosystem. We would have mutinied. We would have turned the ship back.

Yeah, sure we would have. There's always hope, right? Apparently not; Hedges trips himself up in the next paragraph:

And absurd promises of hope and glory are endlessly served up by the entertainment industry, the political and economic elite, the class of courtiers who pose as journalists, self-help gurus like Oprah and religious belief systems that assure followers that God will always protect them. It is collective self-delusion, a retreat into magical thinking.

As is thinking that humans would do anything, even if they fully understood that all around them is collapsing. Few are as acutely tuned to the collapse of these United Snakes & all other human constructs as your humble maniac editor, & we haven't done anything but make idle threats, quite possibly because we are as fatalistic as you can get & just don't care, as none of it makes a dime's worth of difference anyway.