Brexit and the Future of America

Someone on LinkedIn recently suggested that people continue to shop at Target after they were again seen to be collaborating with ICE.

Target is a Minnesota company ... and a big company; if I were a betting man, I'd short them ... the only people who support Target these days are low-info democrats and conservatives.

I'm not trying to berate either; though we should also be aware of the global conversation.

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

That's the Prime Minister of Canada, at the World Economic Forum, a.k.a. Davos.

The US has been living in a fantasy for the past 250 to 530+ years, a fantasy of immortal exceptionalism.

Canada is also a colonial occupying entity, though perhaps due to the maintenance of French as a diversifier through language, they maintain a more Euro-typical political and social ethos; as opposed to the dehumanizing capitalist nature of the United States.

The reason for this line of thought is looking at connection to land and country through two lenses; the body and the mind.

Having two national languages within a country mandates a cognitive awareness of an other person who is different and equal, which perhaps facilitates policy that is more considerate of others.

Europe has thousands of years of history beneath their feet; it is intrinsic to want to care for the land, and her people, on a genetic level, at some point.

The United States operates in a single language, officially, on land that was unlawfully taken (broken treaties, anyone?) and has been nearly entirely colonized.

I say this in contrast to South America, where there is land which remains inaccessible to Western "civilization"; and here again, this has correlations with our cognitive and social processes and patterns.

Trump is a product of the American ethos, and the American people; the Democrats are complicit, and it is all driven by corporate interests.

Canada has two languages which provide a foundation to see other people as equal humans; Europe has its own difficulties, though they have history with the land.

The United States has long been at war with itself; and the battle line is that of white supremacy; which is tantamount to American supremacy, and the delusion is coming to an end.

Even with Trump impeached, the damage has been done; the Democrat party is ineffective at best, and as to whether mid-terms will even happen ... that's for the corporate overlords to decide, I suppose.

Because the infrastructure is too easily compromised at this point; consensus no longer rules the day, as conversation is no longer considered a path to a sustainable solution ...

For the past 250-530 years ... in all conversations of consequence, someone had a gun to their head, metaphorically speaking.

Corporate America was holding the gun, for everyone's benefit it was said, and now it is out of control.

While the old adage of "vote blue no matter who" isn't going to work;

I saw Gen Z video "Demasking Democrats" ... it's a series when they expose Democrats for being hypocrites.

Smart money doesn't chase profits, it chases innovation.

Dumb money, trying to chase profits will attempt to silence, dismiss and demean these conversations from the youth; though they reflect a natural evolution.

For reasons beyond the scope of this screed, corporate leadership in the pursuit of profits has silenced what Thoreau called "the wise minority."

Sure, haters can be annoying ... but sometimes it's helpful to see situations through perspectives other than your own.

Not as something we imagine, but something that we have to accept.

And that act of acceptance ... not accepting that something is right or wrong, but that it is, whether you like it or not ... a thing that doesn't directly hurt you, nor directly help you ... but exists, and therefore must be considered, it cannot be ignored

Canadians can't ignore people who speak French, nor people who only speak English, they can think what they will and what they wish, but they can't ignore their existence and the range their existence can encompass.

Europeans can't ignore that they've had pubs and restaurants open for 100's of years, and 1,000's of years of heritage ...

When we are forced to accept such a thing, it opens the door to seeing ourselves and our situations through multiple perspectives, and so arriving at possible solutions all the more quickly.

The United States was supposed to be an experiment that allowed for excellence in this opportunity of multi-cultural plurality ... but blinded by monetary profits alone, we can see what has become of the dream.

A few zealots are considered leaders, and they condemn all who oppose them.

We were all taught that Thomas Edison was an inventor, when he was more like a thief ... we are not taught to have critical, but negligent, recollections of our history.

The world no longer wishes to live at the whims of the United States; which itself is delusional.

Upon the precipice of war with tax dollars funding ICE deployments across the country.

No one, and nothing is safe until ICE is abolished.

And so begins the American exodus from global leadership; which is really an attack on American corporate power ... which ... is interesting as well.

Anywho ... I think we might be well advised to observe the impact of Brexit on the UK's economy, and social atmosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_of_Brexit

As for the latter, I've got nothing ... I'm not here to act like I know it all ... rather to help y'all ask better questions, so hopefully we can all find better answers.

I'm not an advocate for any of this, I don't wish ill on the US, or the people of the US; and I have an invested interest in the well-being of the US economy.

I think we are all benefited by taking a critical lens to all that we experience and observe.

And not just a rose-colored critical lens, but also a blue, green and yellow-colored lens; as well as a kaleidoscope lens for good measure ... it's about seeing the world from different perspectives ... so as to see a solution that hasn't been seen before and initiate the process of innovation and so continue to evolve.

That's the point, right?

That's the purpose.

But if that's the ethos we want to return to ... humility about our oversights and mistakes is requisite, and not an easy path to tread.

I believe that we can do it, and be even stronger for it ... but corporations can no longer lead; communities need to lead.

I think Target and Costco are excellent examples of this idea, as observable in their stock prices.

I'm not saying shop at Costco ... but that allegiances to archaic companies and entities that don't serve communities, and are not considerate of individuals ..

That's not innovation and that's not progress.

That's not the future.

Communication, loyalty to communities as collections of individuals, opening space for diversity and difference, being able to interact and exchange across identity, experience and understanding ... this is the future.

This is innovation.

And innovation is what is required of us all as a species in the days to come.

Thank you so very much for reading my midnight screed ... jaja ... though I had these and thought them pertinent enough to share.

LinkedIn really is my target audience, conceptually ... we can talk the same language and see things from similar perspectives ... you'll see :)

Or maybe you are starting to see :p hopefully.

peaces, c.