things change into the same...

in America, there is change and then there is the appearance of change----like the TV commercial dominated society we have become, thoughtless wonders we...some ideas that appeal to us because they are cute or trendy, or more likely the opinion of our friends...I call them friend shepherds - they guide a flock of sheepish friends, guiding tastes in clothes, tastes in cool, approving an disapproving, by virtue of superior knowledge of life and happiness. They guide their friends through the perils of life, to the barn in the season of shearing, and of course the season of lamb chops too.
But here we have it, Segregated Public Schools, well segregation by wealth has always been the case here and continued with only small interference from the Civil Rights movement and government policies of progressive administrations--it has been a difficult thing for Americans to give up their idea of privilege. I think the whining Tea Party movement is born of this -- a sense of privilege lost,

how dare they tell me I can't carry my gun in public-- so that everyone will know I am a dangerous man, not to be taken lightly as my appearance might suggest-- having a palatial home, a space age car, and more credit cards than a wallet can hold...is not enough, someone has to lack all those things, many ...most people must lack them, then i feel ...like a real American; [oh and anyone who disagrees should leave the country...taking the memories of your children and family lost in war with you...]

yes, the Tea Party is a reflection of something very insidious indeed, privilege raised to the point of worship. The loss of understanding, the reduction in essential intelligence about a thing-- we must be free to have health insurance on our own, and not as part of a mandate--- we must be free to become burdens on the public, we must be free to be poor and uninsured against our will...

Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks died in recent days, Civil rights leaders who gave productive lifetimes to raising the level of life in the US. I also read that parents in Mississippi take their children into racially exclusive schools, not for racially discrimination purposes I'm sure ...but maybe somewhere a friend has been a shepherd.

Maybe the idea is to have more friends like Benjamin Hooks and Dorothy Height, then I would call them...Angels.