Not the Best Wednesday

I’m trying hard not to concede to the nihilists, but I must confess that it is with increasing difficulty. The rebuttal to nothing is something, but the something is becoming more and more irrational, parochial, and dogmatic. Reason is disdainfully attributed to intellectual elitism by those for whom thought must be a dreadfully painful process. It seems like we went through all this before during the Sixties, but obstinate redneckism is making a powerful resurgence. How, in the same society, do we manage to elect the first black president and then put a poll on the web as to whether or not he should be assassinated? For several years now it has been a standoff between the intelligent and the stupid, and the smart ones have not historically come out on top. If one ever has pause to wonder about how someone like Adolph Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany, one need look no further than the fascist flexing in our own time of the likes of Rush Limbaugh. It seems that we’ve decided to patriotically wave our flag as we bury it and ourselves in the grave we are hell-bent upon digging.