Anal Lysis

[degringolade]

 

Analysis is not advocacy.

I really wish that more folks would remember this simple statement.  

I cannot for the life of me say that I have advocated for any particular political "solution" or "system" or "candidate" in this ongoing affectation that is my journal.  I kinda do the same in my conversations with people.  This lack of enthusiasm is made easier by the options being served up by the political elite in this country being so god-awful.  If I have ever done so, I honestly think at this point that either I misspoke or was too stoned to think straight.

I strongly feel that politics and our country is in the midst of a generational change.  The problems that we face only have unpleasant solutions that we haven't thought of yet.  The two parties that call the tunes careen through the failed solutions of the old white men of my generation, and baby, us old white dudes have failed immensely with everything that we have touched.  

Trump will probably win.  I don't see the two probable candidates (right now Bernie and [shudder] Biden) as having a snowballs in hell chance against the Donald provided that things don't go completely shithouse in the next 556 days.  To be honest, being fat, dumb, and happy currently, I am not particularly interested in such a thing occurring just to have the current fuckwad at 1600 Pennsylvania sent a' packin. 

What folks don't want to face, and what the two parties want desperately to hide from the voters is that we have started the long decline.  Oh, I am fairly certain that momentum and inertia will mean that the inflection point in history which we straddle won't be noticed yet, but we are going from a positive slope to a negative slope, and none of the solutions being bandied about by the gerontocracies dominating the two current political parties have the mental or moral courage to address and lead the society through to the next phase.

My co-workers at the VaSpa have convinced me to make the attempt to watch "Game of Thrones".  Being of a curmudgeonly and sullen nature, I reluctantly agreed and will watch the same on DVD at the rate of once a week.  I wasn't all that impressed by the books, Martin could use a good editor and I gave up on reading them after the third book.  

I think that the reason that I agreed to dip my toes into this current pop culture phenomenon is to watch the first season with the only catchphrase that I remember in mind.

Winter Is Coming.