. . . cracked pavement of our neglected pathways

091226 17:32
Isolation, myopia and suicide are epidemic. Growing worse, devastating families, economies and governments, at a fantastic pace.
There are signs of justice and peace emerging within the cracked pavement of our neglected pathways to the future.
Our government is littered with ambition to be remembered, and reelected, for remarkable projects bearing the names of vanity. At the same time the moral and ethical fabric, or infrastructure, is lost in riotous shouting matches--seeking personal attention and celebrity.
Ordinary, everyday civilians, people who vote, regardless what is on the platform--tragedy or catastrophe--are voting with our wallets and feet.
Issues addressed from either side, Democrat or Republican, are not adjudicated with dispassion or a balanced concern for the majority. Or future of our Nation. Special, vested, interests rule and we all suffer the consequence.
These are temporal issues manifest with an eternal aftermath. The world itself suffers and apparently--perhaps--maybe not--convulses as we die, or kill ourselves, from essential needs ignored indifferently for the profit of those greedy for power.
What profit is expected of a parent who abuses a child? It seems, in my case to have been, by my father’s admission; “I didn’t know any better--or differently.” I have, on video tape, his volunteered confession that I, “was in the way” when I queried my placement with a grandparent at age five for a year and every subsequent summer thereafter until age thirteen when I was used as a worker in the family business.
I have no interest in, nor do I advocate, legal redress, or any new laws; since these events are daily and hidden; as covert as the vested interest molesting our future.
Institutionalization of personal agenda and ambition is obvious in a dysfunctional individual yet celebrated on a corporate level politically.
There is no ‘quick fix’ to repair the difficulties caused by drug or power addiction. There remains a process, once begun gathers momentum to empower individuals to live free productive lives and have healthy family relationships. Lamentably we are a goal oriented society ignoring historical process. Do not seek instant gratification but make the first step towards a real life lived, not one simply endured, or survived.
Strong individuals make a strong society and civilization, slaves make obscene profits for the few.
I think we can live in hope of a better today and tomorrow.