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8o's legacy (happy Independence) Don't blame the GWB administration, it was Reagan and his merry crew. Though we protested in the post-Vietnam 70's  hot and sure about every error  the point is, we had that luxury. Yes, there was hardship,  discrimination,  individual need; but really no one need go hungry  for lack of a job, there was real community  spirit, especially on the lower rungs, but philanthropy as well.  There was a strong foundation that made sense  and could be reasoned with.  The 80's brought in a different worldview,  more wide and wild. Days of cocaine,  champagne, glamour and celebration for sweet deregulation,  when every dreamer  could believe the capitalist vision of wealth unbound.  Before it was found that  poisonous as plutonium in the gleeful arms of the truly greedy,  just what we  were free to become.  Since then it's been spinning our balance to bits of  blast-warped brains.  Such unbridled hatred and spitting disdain. Psychic  Cassandras said at the time, his numbers are 666.  A man possessed by  Hollywood fantasies of what we all should be,  folie a deux with the nation.  And here are those snowy yesteryears roosting  in our rafters, laying out  the macabre future of their disaffected dreams.  Who are we, really?  Distanced from our history,  believing convenient lies, what are our chances  for recovery?   July 4, 2010 interdependence Q & A   I need you, out there, to ask the questions, feed my liminal factory -- imaginal machinery set to engineer exquisite ideas in shrink-wrapped phrases. Tell me your shame-held secrets, fears that track you in the night. Let me meld them with trenchant fairytales, legends that recapitulate on cable news, vibrant stylings of the Blues, surreal cartoons rendered by Nietzschean travails. Let me take this mess, sprinkle with inchoate memories, bake well at near 99 degrees until the odor overtakes the air. Now, open wide and taste enchantment, if your questions and my answers meet and satisfy each other's needs.   July 4, 2010

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