Aloha,

What you are seeing now is same old same old. Look back through the ages. While we live in turbulent times, it has always been that way.

What is different this time is the instant news cycle. In any country of 300,000,000 or so the only way to get noticed is to kill someone. Next best thing is to be as rude and obnoxous and make a lot of noise to get some attention.

America through the ages has done some things that we are not proud of. From Interment of the Japaneese, or Mc Carthyism, to wipeing out a native people, to fighting a war with itself over slavery, just to name a few, our hands are not clean. And they never will be.

So Relax. Smoke a joint while you are waiting. Time and change are powerful forces. The old will die and with them their rigid ideas. The only thing certain is change. The eyes you see through will change with time.

Have a good full life. That's the best revenge.

Now I will take another hit and go back to picking at my navel.