corrosion

I just got done reading the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer. You should read it if you want to hate the daunting forces in Washington. The hypocrisy. The capitalism.

Its a very encouraging book. It encourages one to give up. It encourages one to leave the country and not turn back. Now corruption is found everywhere, and everyone is trying to make a buck and politics is a profession as deceptive and devious as smuggling, embezzling, and prostitution rolled into one, but doesnt quite make as much money.

It reminds me of an old pickup truck on one of those old farms as you drive across the middle of the country on some barren back highway. You have been driving for hours and there is nothing to see on the road and the horizon is flat with no trees in site, when you come upon an old homestead. About a hundred feet from the house, or on the edge of the immediate property sits and old rust bucket with weeds and tall amber grasses tickling its every side. Its falling apart. Sometimes there are fenders missing, or were sold off for scrap. The tires, which you cant even see, are flat. This truck has not moved for years. It was once a brand new cherry of a truck, now its just a nuisance. The motor is a solid block of rust. The owner had once hoped to restore it to its original mint condition, but it was too far gone. It would take too much, besides, he doesnt even know that much about fixing cars, he just knows how to run one.

Oh the humanity.