The United States of Impunity
AI is the whiff of perfume that’s supposed to mask the stench of terminal moral decay.
It is appropriate to discuss the United States of Impunity on Bastille Day, which commemorates the start of the French Revolution in 1789, for the United States of Impunity is just as impervious to real change as the French monarchy, the Ancien Regime.
It’s impossible to discuss the United States of Impunity without being dismissed as a raving lunatic because the moral decay that has turned the USA into the USI has been so completely normalized that we now accept the complete erasure of the nation’s moral foundations as “the way it’s always been.”
But this is not true. While it’s certainly self-evident that “there’s always been corruption” (the response we receive whenever we address our terminal moral decay), the truth is the institutionalization of a leadership elite that serves its own interests with absolute impunity is a recent development.
There was no Lolita Express in the 1950s, 60s or 70s. Rather, there were far higher social and legal standards for leadership elites: politicians, corporate CEOs, academic leaders, etc.–the entire elite class of the influential, powerful an
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