Carrot sticks

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

President Kennedy could not foresee the impact of ever-increasing productivity, wealth and complexity; especially not the resulting collective confusion and implied dependence upon our governments.

Governments once ‘represented’ but now they ‘lead’ or ‘rule’ with the actors behaving accordingly.

Pity them – they are infinitely replaceable. Their carcasses litter the landscape like dessicated cicada shells, crumbling slowly into dust once their time is done.

But still the only question that we seem to ask is what our country can do for us. Over and over and over again.