/lit/ - Literature

I just got back to the states after visiting europe, which always sparks a lot of thought about the current state of our nation and its destiny. everywhere I look, both on the news and in my own life I see rot setting in. On the news our regime lost a war to goat herders, a virus it accidentally created has won and will be with the human race until the end of days, and in my own community a pretty normal thunderstorm knocked out our power for three whole days. the aristocrats, the educated people spend all their energy trying to pad their own vanity. theyre either trying to puff themselves up with this activism shit or they're working behind a computer making extremely complex algorithms to target advertising. the working class people are retreating as well into fake virtual worlds. pretty much every industry is facing an immense labor shortage, and are desperate for workers.

i live in wisconsin, so the institution responsible for getting my power back after the thunderstorm is a state authorized monopoly called WE Energies (wisconsin energy energies). It employs about 12,000 people on a regular basis. of those 12,000 only 500 are linesmen. I dont know anything about the power grid, but to me that sounds like if WE energies were an army only 1/24 would actually be holding a gun. after the storm they called up linesmen from other states, and only 50 showed up.

how did we get here? how do we get out? our regime and our nation are rotting from the inside out. all around me i see wasted potential. what my country look like if every american had a niche, and could be all they can be