In The Rear View Mirror

Have you ever watched an object in your rear view mirror just as you passed it and then to disappear slowly over the retreating horizon? You could be looking directly at it and then switch to the mirror at the instant that it pops into view and while it looks like the object that you just passed, it isn't. Your mind is playing a trick on you because it is familiar with the object. It is an opposite view of what you were looking at prior to passing. It can be quite disconcerting once that you realize this and it becomes even more so the farther that you get from it. Then it is gone and you are left pondering what you have seen. Was it really what you were looking at during its approach or was it really the opposite image that was retreating into the crevices of your mind.

Such is the case of the country known as America. We become cognizant of the country somewhere in kindergarten when we first start learning the "Pledge of Allegiance" and then spoon fed the approved history of the empire all throughout our indoctrination in the "school system".

Once we leave the educational system we have a choice of re-educating ourselves to the dark, ugly truth or we latch on to the teat of the main stream media and suckle until we have been numbed down or dumbed down to the point of blindness. We are blinded by white hot patriotism and by the Hegelian Dialectic that it is us against the world, socialism against democracy, republicans against democrats, etc.

We know the truth.......it is them against us. Them being the government, the selected denizens of the Empire on the Potomac and us as the seekers of and keepers of the truth. Unfortunately, there are very few of us since the vast majority of our fellow slaves have fatted themselves on the aforementioned teat. The milk is at this moment turning sour as the house of cards is starting to crumble and the spin meisters in government and media are busily ginning up lists of subversives that have caused all of this malaise. You know as well as I, the subversives are the ones that know the truth.

We know the truth because we chose to avert our eyes from the blinding light as it got closer and started to seek the truth. At that very moment we passed the false image of America and started to see the opposite image in the rear view mirror and the false image gets smaller and smaller as we race for the truth.

Maybe I do think too much. I wrote all of this just to say Happy Birthday to what America was at one time (well over 150 years ago) and to what we always thought that America was.

To the America that truly exists in the mirror, I am reminded of a line out of an old poem.

Quote:
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.


The bell is in all likelihood a death knell.
Keep your heads down and your powder dry. Happy Fourth of July.