The system is broken. Democracy, bureaucracy, society, Wall Street, Washington, the prison-industrial complex, feminism, Hollywood, Main Street, the IMF, education, religion, The Church, publishing, manufacturing, charity, family values, marriage, the music industry, community, our whole world: It’s all messed up. It’s not what it’s supposed to be.

We need to go back: to our core values, to love, to family, to the individual, to the market, to the 1960’s when we were less apathetic, to the 1950’s before it all got messed up, to the 1940’s when women had jobs, to the dawn of the American Revolution, to the golden age of literature, to the good old days of the British Empire, to the roots of Christianity, to Pangea, to before white people happened, to the Garden of Eden.

Or what if, instead,

then as like now,

we just built what we needed,

as best we knew how,

and now we know better,

and we need something new,

and we can set down our protests,

and just start to do?