I hesitate
to use the word depressed. In my late
seventies the reality is that I have years not decades to live; and I refuse to
let outside circumstances beyond my control distract me from the beauty of the
natural world around me. But, the election
of Donald Trump is really a downer.
Up until now
I have felt upbeat. I have seen the advances
of the Civil Rights movement, integration, open-minded sexuality, gay rights, an
open discourse of religious ignorance, a black man elected President, a woman
running for President, and yes marijuana legalization.
The rabid
religious miasma coming from the middle-east I could write off as mankind behaving
as usual; but at least it seemed here in this country we were experiencing a reawakening.
Now the
yin has been canceled out by the yang.
The human
race, I have no doubt, will continue to develop innovations in technology that
will be impressive; but the human animal itself will continue to remain, as it
has always been: steeped in religious bigotry, warlike and ignorance.
There have
always been liberals that have pushed the envelope and always been
conservatives who lit the fires to the burning stakes.
In my last years, I hate to see the death of
the our small renaissance, and our world moving backwards into the Dark Ages to accommodate the haters,
the bigots and the uninformed.
I am some
disappointed
the Ol’Buzzard
