What time is it?

[James Doran]

Is this the 1918 Spanish Flu?  Look in your home.  Bathroom: razors, scissors, tweezers, toothpaste, hairdryers, deodorants, perfumes, shampoos.  Kitchen: Gizmos, gizmos, gizmos.  And all the rest of it: at least three TV remotes, your iPhone or Droid and chargers and spare batteries, and the music box and charger, the Smart TV.  Laptop, tablet, iPod, wrist pod, pods for everything.  The car and garage: Too confusing with too much stuff to even comprehend.

And "we" cannot manufacture a ball-point pen sized tester that comes in a twelve pack so I can figure out if you can come to my son's thirtieth birthday party?  Give me a break.  If you want a chicklet, a chocolate, a golf ball, a nail file, a pregnancy test, vitamins and phony supplements, and pain killers, anxiety killers and memory killers....you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.....except the very thing you need.

What is preventing this roadblock, quagmire paralysis, from breaking loose?  It is something dark and dangerous.  It certainly is not the American attitude that is at play.  The dam will burst.  Ingenuity and capability will emerge.  We can do this.  We will do this.  But why are we waiting?  Not just failed leadership, but blind selfish interests that have no real concern to solve the problem.  It is someone else's problem for those who live behind the illusion of wealth and power.  Untouchables.  The elite power class of untouchables.

If every man woman and child can be delivered a cellular phone to any far corner of the globe, certainly a test kit can be made and delivered.  This is not rocket science, my friends.  Turn the American spirit loose.  Solve the test problem.  Focus.  

The subconscious of America will not take this deceit for long.  It doesn't take a masters degree in economics or sociology to see that someone is holding back.  The reasons are always the same.  We have been down this path before.  And though the great unwashed America cannot articulate exactly what it is that isn't right with this scene, they know it in their hearts.  Someone is not stepping up with the full promise of America and our ingenuity and capability are being frustrated while we are told a thousand times a day to go inside and be quiet.  It ain't gonna last.

My perpetual gripe: how long are we going to wait until we take the steps that are so obviously needed?  In this case, how many more are going to die?  How many more are going to slip from their fragile emotional state into far right radical reaction?  How many overly educated elites are going to drift into a self-absorbed isolation?  How long do we have to wait?

Will someone please step up to the plate?  Wake up.

James Doran