History did not stop in the 1600's

We read about Robber Barons. We read about the stupendous wealth gains during the crash of 1929 and beaver faced economic students sit in rapt attention as another Nobel Laureate spit gibberish about cycles of a free market and the jumbled sophistry of it all concludes with "where was I, what was I saying?" Yet for some synaptic anomaly, some mental glitch, we never seem to get it that history isn't something always made or happened in the past we express outrage at the in your face compromise and violations against the very psyche of humanness, which always seems to happen on the endless pages of the history books rapt attentive students coopt their original thinking ability with. So when those same episodes we express indignation and outrage at happen in our contemporary existence we consistently fail to see and recognize we are the ones history is being made with. Our mindlessness and complacency is what the next vitriolic righteous indignation will be directed at.

History did not stop in the 1600's. Norms of human behavior did not start nor statically grind to a halt with Columbus and his voyage. Edicts didn't suddenly become laws with Portugal and the Catholic Pope's Bifurcation of the world. "The White man's burden," was simply a dialectical slogan. There has always been a continuum of human activity and till the sun super novas there always will be.

So as we sit, spectators in this latest installment of guile and the embodiment of Jack and his wit which the housing economy and the Sub Prime Rate swindle is once again revealing, let us look no further than ourselves and our levels of tolerance.

Maybe I'll find time to comment on the Bush Administration decision (which by the way is at the expense of the home foreclosure viral) to underwrite J.P. Morgan's purchase of the Bear Sterns Bank to the tune of $3o billion which to paraphrase Bob Marley "in the abundance of waters the fool is thirsty" and so in a sea of swindled cash Bear Sterns was thirsty.

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