Our world of ideas is being cheapened and I don’t think it’s a conspiracy.  Somehow, someway we’ve tainted everything important in life and now we simply drift on a seemingly endless wave of banality.  Some people think that the most important thing in life is to decode a human genome in an attempt to better understand human life.  Some people find their release ahead of them in heaven. Some think that the liberation of women stands as the pinnacle achievement of our collective future.

Whether you’re: a sufferer of post-traumatic stress, gay, black, Chinese or elderly (which can all be great things to be) you’ve got an agenda that has been written and sits waiting for your signature and participation.  It’s cheap and not at all personal.  It’s just what’s been written and it’s there waiting for you.  All you’ve got to do is seize the reign and ride on the train of the most common complaint.  If you’re lucky! 

Many of these agendas have been around so long that they’ve become tainted as organizations.  They’ve generally been bastardized from supporting the representative many to representing the ideas of a small collective within the framework of a larger body.  These minority groups within the majority aid in  the cheapening of our lives and yet the majority continues to support the minority.  The majority takes part in the cheapening of their world.  You may ask what I mean.  What exactly am I talking about?

I’m talking about the institutions that we support currently working against us.  The Senate of the United States works exactly as it was designed.  It is a barrier to separate the common, ordinary people from gaining any power in the government of the United States of America.  James Madison states this in a fairly convoluted fashion in Federalist Paper 10 - a document that helped form the Republic of the United States.

Now the Senate has become exactly what Madison feared.  It is nothing but factions.  Every session fights bitterly.  On the bright side they’re not getting much done.  Most ancient religions are the same.  The Catholic Church is historically so disreputable that nothing good can ever come from it again.  It is tainted and cheap because it has been around too long.  There are factions and interests represented within that care nothing for the condition of the many Catholics around the world.  We’ve been cheapened throughout our history and now we have a hard time remembering what is important. 

And why!  What is important, besides the Nintendo 360 and the Mercedes Benz?  What is important?  Is it life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?  Cheap, moneyed interest controls your destiny while you slowly die a little more each day.  Eventually, you’ll be gone and anything you thought about anything will probably leave with you.  What are you going to do?  Is it important? 

We have the ingenuity and creativity to come up with better forms of government.  We too could hold a Constitutional Convention.  People could have a voice to suggest something new.  If it didn’t work out, we’ve still got what we’ve got.  Change can be made, but only after it has been discussed.  My vote is for something closer to democracy.  You leave the Senate the way that it is.  You leave the Presidency the way that it is.  You raffle off House seats once every year or two among the members of your citizenry.  You could make a requirement like you have to have a high school diploma.  Maybe then public education will improve.