The President’s State Of the Union speech historically began as the means for the executive to report to the legislature on the current state of affairs for the country and the government. It’s an administrative act that city managers and corporate executives make on a more frequent basis, but because it is broadcasted for the world today it is now entirely a political event.
I think the recent words of the President, the reaction by the U.S. Men’s hockey team, and the reactions to both over the last several days presents the current state of the union. One third of the nation does not want to face the fact that everything is abnormal, think that no U.S. Olympian ought say anything disparaging about and respect the President. One third of the nation is opposed to everything being done by the President and the U.S. government, and the remaining one third is entirely in agreement with and supports the President and the U.S. government.
My description of the United States right now is that it is an elementary school playground, the one of cliques and those of who are “made fun of” or in today’s terms bullied. Middle and high school locker rooms are just a different location for the playground. This description is meaningful to me because when I grew up in elementary, middle, and high school I was the one being “made fun of.”
The playground bully structure includes more than just the bully and the person being bullied, it includes those who laugh with the bully because they see the act as funny and those who laugh with the bully because they are afraid to stand out. Some may just watch or look away, and a few, a very, very few, might even speak out and or defend the bullied.
What this teaches many boys and girls is that it is ok to have a laugh at the expense of another. It is better to be the one laughing than the one being laughed at. When the lesson carries over in to adulthood it translates to it being ok for one to profit off the suffering of another. The lesson is the hierarchy that one can call the norm of civilization, some people are better than other people, and therefore it’s ok, expected even, to laugh at the other. The norm of civilization is so a part of our psyche that it is accepted and expressed habitually and without question.
The pyramids in Egypt, a triangle, depicts the hierarchy of the norm of civilization. We learn that what we should want is to be as high up that triangle as possible. The problem not realized is that there is only one tip to a triangle with room only for one person. Historically we have called that person emperor or king and more recently dictator or executive. In the norm of civilization only the one person at the top is free from exploitation from those above.
Our acceptance of the norm of civilization is what allows for the exploitation of others without consequences such as we learn seemingly daily in the actions of those in government and as we see more and more evidence of such as from the Epstein files. It is what allows all that you see happening around you.
There is another way that cannot be lived nor taught by an imperial religion such as the Christianity known by most of the world. We are called to change our minds and to love others and escape the from the pyramid.
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