SOB...(State Of Being)

     Perhaps SOS (State of Self) would have been a better title, but the acronym was all wrong, not that the choosen acronym points to anyone in particular,  it just reasonably conveys the situation we all are in.

     Anyway, this week has for anyone living outside the basket (basket of deplorables), been a "soul searching" time.  For 7 decades I believe that I did not consider that in my 8th decade, I would be earnestly reflecting on how to live in a society that had morphed from a modern social democracy to a totalitarian socio/political structuralism bent on reclaiming 19th century morals, but....

     now 250 years into this "all men are created equal" embrace, it would appear that the majority do indeed long for the presumed safety in a "strong-man" configuration, where the three branches of government have effectively consolidated into just the Executive.  No doubt some groups that historically have acquiesed to, or outright supported "marshall-law", have at times saved the day. Possibly with a less culturally and genetically diverse populus we will reclaim the "shining light on the hill" status and ushering in a more bountiful period in human history, or....

    we will stumble and fall like all of the mega-villans in the old James Bond Movies. 

     Whichever be our fate, my sense is that the outcome will have little to do with either of the two still standing estates,  the public and the press.  Neither hand wringing, hollow admonishment about violations of the "old law", nor reverie women marches, will likely turn the tide.  Best hope is that capital market scions jocking for advantage in the changing wealth world order will self destruct taking the "Music Man Enabler" with them.

    When you digest the likely options informing our current SOB,  a global depression seems not all that bad!