By Charles Eldridge Marshall
I have been delightfully uninterested and apathetic towards the upcoming elections. It's not that I don't care but that I already can predict the results; the ruling class will win. This victory via the political parties, the media, big corporations, academia, and the entertainment industry with their daily dosage of how and what we should all think. Until I see a viable alternative to the "status quo" I shall not pay too much mind to the activities of world political events and "goings on" except in terms of unusual happenings such as earthquakes, hurricanes or other acts of God that call for prayer and meditation. Oh, I'll still send a letter to the editor here and there when I glance at the newspapers for my occasional dosage of bad tasting "media" medicine, but this will be more in angst against their vapid stories and blatant bias than any belief that they have any sort of solution to the world's problems other than that they have no solution. In a lot of ways, they don't want any solutions. I should imagine that in their simple and self serving minds the worse things are, the more money they make. Such is the state of the world we live in.
I do have ideas and ideals of how the current government, academia, the media, etc.... (what I refer to as "Mad King George"- in reference to our Founding Fathers' battle against the British monarch) "should" be acting but my ideals could be described by most modern thinking adults as "pie in the sky" and/or "naive" in their intentions to bring the best of mankind to be "ruling" the world, not the worst of mankind. Maybe this little blog "Marshall in the Middle" will tempt the minds of some men in power - either now or in the future- that will bring relief to a world of citizens exhausted by the tyrants we live under and have always lived under. The tyranny of mankind's ego and his/her selfish aspiration to hold power and influence over the rest of civilization. They divide and conquer, and those they divide are us.
The American Revolution was the closest humans have come to addressing the needs of the people through government order and election- the American Republic. It's establishment was clearly a miracle that required unusually intelligent, passionate, and selfless men to set aside their egos and consider the dignity and rights of the ordinary person. This person that all other previous governments had largely ignored. Today, much of that work has been maligned by the modern world and a never ending explosion of egomaniacs being elected to power by an uneducated population of sanctimonious fools and delitants. So, the once noble ideals of a well thought-out republic hang perilously at the mercy of "Mad King George", once again.
In My Humble Opinion.
