Commonsenseless

There surfaces a naive assumption: if the complicated machinery that fuels nations is operating than it is working according to some well-considered plan by virtue of it working at all.  What is overlooked is the character of power, how it changes the equation of commonsense.  The larger the problem the less likely you are to hear about it.  Of the magnitude of systematic collapse you will hear not at all, for no partisan side wishes their own demise in the inevitable chaos to ensue.  And so, the failures are silenced though they accumulate, the points of disagreement work within the arena of power and are of such suitable insignificance as to raise the ire of the partisan (yet another cog in the machine).  The choices keep the illusion of freedom alive and people continue to go to work and buy things they don't require and the marvel of the machinery instills a confidence and assurance that things operate according to plan. Each denial keeping the whole running until the burdensome nature of reality intervenes to such a point that it ceases to be contained.  Even then it will be blamed on some unforeseen act of insurgence, and since no one wants to be played the fool, each will agree quickly.  What came before will be seen as a Golden Age, something to aspire towards, and the powerful will be the first to resurrect the myth.  

Until we look the nature of power in the face and see it for what it is, nothing will change. Until education is valued more so than competition and the soul of the individual is valued more so than the allegiance to the flag, we will be stuck in the lie of fraudulent commonsense that greases the machinery of power.