The mystic and philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti once said, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." I just finished Rolling Stone investigative reporter Matt Taibbi's latest book, "I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street," about how the NYPD cops who murdered Eric Garner got away with it because of a severely broken judicial system and a corrupt, byzantine, city bureaucracy designed to delay in order to eventually deny anything even remotely resembling justice.
This page from the book is totally profound, and though it describes Garner and his situation, it is something that could easily describe any powerless or homeless person's situation of where America stands in 2018:
The plutocratic nightmare that we have been living in for quite some time is not in danger of ending anytime soon. I am almost wholeheartedly in agreement with George Orwell these days, when he stated, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." I have no idea when, how, or even if this type of "some people are more equal than others" strata in American society can ever be permanently, or even partially, rooted out, but my guess is that if any progress is going to be made, it's not going to be soon, and it's is most certainly not going to be peaceful. True societal change never is.
