London in New York

So little time
Try to understand that I’m
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody’s changing
And I don’t feel the same

-Everybody’s Changing, KEANE 2005

As the world evolves around me, I find myself wondering what truths are worthy of respect and which fiction tellers are harmless and which of them are dangerous and need to be exposed for what they are. The coming months may force me to make choices about those truths and the players in our society who are more than mere minstrels or court jesters given a platform by those more powerful to assist them in protecting authorized truth while assisting the culture of distraction in diverting our citizens into creating lives based on illusion, free of serious questions and introspection while the Chess Game plays in the shadows outside the view or understanding of the general population.  Sometimes it matters not if you are more talented if those who are more powerful will help script your legend, even if it is but a house of cards, based upon an illusion.   Say nothing and one risks being on the wrong side of human history, while the wrong folks write the history books and I do not know if that is something that I can stand by and allow, even if I have to go down swinging.  Just because you wave the flag does not mean you are a greater patriot than those who question the motives of those who wave the flag in the name of their countrymen in pursuit of an agenda which may ultimately undermine their station as citizens, our station as citizens of America and this planet, yours and mine.

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