Instead of Pandering

Its' fair to say that all of us have tremendous emotive strength in our opinions. The entries herein will be my assessment of the facts, the opinions I form about the response to them, and the subsequent development of our broken culture from this first week of the new America. The promise is about progress, and it will take years just to get back to where we were culturally a decade ago when the 1990's sparked a resurgence in peaceful expression, cultural experimentation, and tremendous economic growth. . In many ways, the awful acts committed since 911 by American hierarchy in government and business, has given great potential to the truth of a more galvanized civilization. But humans are fickle, and it may be difficult to retain such unity over the coming years. People want Obama to wave a magic wand, give us a new Ten Commandments, end the Wars, and feed the starving. That won't happen.He has a job to do just like the rest of us. The process is not only intentionally drawn out, but experimental and rooted by compromise. The good thing is that he and his Administrators don't appear evil, as was the case with our figurehead leadership the last 3/4 of a decade. A lot of Americans are new to the political process, a residual effect of the last campaign and election. This will pave a simultaneously beneficial and difficult road for our nation and our world. Newcomers to any group will assume that Promise is always kept, or that the process of election will be the hardest part of an Administration. Reasons why I feel so strongly about these times are summed up, in short, by stating that the Baby Boomers have blamed the following generations on so many things wrong with the world, even before any of us entered the workforce. This is not to say that my family had any hand in such matters, and my families strong political arguments and discussions at the dinner are certainly the rocket boosters that elevated my own consciousness to the height that requires action, response, and reaction. The sixties were a great time for action, change, and outspoken demonstration. But it was not unique, as some claim, to civilization, not ever-changing, and most of all, no more significant than the actions of those who came before or after those who participated in all of the Equality movements in Human History. Obama signifies the passage from the Baby Boomers-most who traded in their bandannas for a necktie-to a generation that defined the way America is today, and will be for the next half-Century. We are the hip-hop heavy metal suburban culture with less hangups about race, gender, orientations, etc, and more hangups about fairness, rationalization, and culture wars that have existed since the beginning of modern civilization. This is not an end, but a beginning, and as baby Boomers retire and count their blessings, I would like to be a tiny, part of the progress of civilization, as America no longer has to be the first to do things right, but we must be the next.