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• Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:50 AM

  All We Have Left is Scenery

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  Monday, February 25, 2008

  It is apt

  All We Have Left Is Scenery

  Yesterday, I cross country skied out my road through maples and pines then farther. The northern sun was muted gold against a translucent blue sky and I saw no one. In over an hour only three cars along the distant roads and not one human-being. All I meet were deer and turkeys and a hound, as I skied through miles of forests, orchards, and farmer’s fields, following snowmobile tracks leading from one natural gas well to the next, each barren, alone and silent, only one small sign.. Well A, Well B, Well C. The snow glittered...sparkled in the light...my backdrop, the frozen Torch lake and then miles of lake Michigan beyond. This journey cost me nothing but a lack of economic opportunity.

  I worry for those in cities with their opportunity now going-gone or dwindling. Those who will soon have no jobs, or those who have been forced into three jobs to provide the income which use to come from one... Those who have been so easily fragmented by Carl Rove and his sort. Those who have no beauty and only Oprah to compensate them.

  The Republicans, the Bushes of our nation have made Americans so afraid, and the Skinner box of their lives is making them crazy. It is much as Herman Goring said (to paraphrase) at Nuremberg before he committed suicide. “It is easy to get a nation to go to war, just tell the people they are under attack”.

  I think of the wealthy enclaves, like the ruined Aspen, with its mountains still intact, but with most of its beautiful people gone, replaced by an immense airport and lines and lines of jets. And of places like the Yellowstone Club in Montana with its private golf course, its private ski lifts, and its private acres, its well trained guards, and hidden cameras. Bill Gates has a house there, he and others like him, and they will not even let the average citizen enter to drive about their miles of roads...roads carved out of national forest... The people’s forest, old logging roads, which now are private.

  I wonder what happened to America over the last forty years. I cannot find the date when it became so bad that the elites felt so entitled that after fleecing the nation blind they also felt the need to steal the scenery. We have returned or are returning to the Gilded Age, and this is not good, not good at all. When Rockefeller was worth a billion and a daily wage was but a dollar. The people hated Rockefeller then, will we soon begin to hate the same men of today? It is possible but today we have Television.

  Buck up, America, Buck up and take your country back, take it back from those who try to divide you and fragment you with abortion, and gays, and guns and terror. Buck up, don’t fall for it, or they may get their wish. And then you will be like those I saw sitting about Old Faithful last summer, waiting in a parking lot to see a spectacle that was no spectacle at all. A sickly geyser suffering for Viagra, when just miles away exists the Yellowstone club, with its land much more rugged and beautiful....land that you will never know of. Land that once belonged to you!!

  Posted by Deeply Imbedded

  —Deeply Imbedded Read Deeply Imbedded's other letters
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