My feelings of color identity are heightened both in the decaying shades of fall and the silence of the renewing winter. Particular to this year with our melting economies, our far gloomier spring prospects than in recent times and our outstanding naiveté towards politicos of all sorts, my sense of color and conscience rings truer than ever. Keen is the clarion call of things best left unspoken in our transcendent, "world too busy shopping to hate" America when I think of this mad season we're in. Barack Obama doesn't inspire the courage I want him to and I don't dislike him for it. I think it's just because what we're really calling for but don't want to admit is the very thing that will kill this country in the end.

Disclaimer: for a former technophile to type these words makes me seem almost heretical in some sectors of my mental senate but the prevailing winds make them necessary.

We need to go back to the soil. Our jobs, the most menial and undesirable of things are gone in this country and with that will go the soul of a nation. It is true that the world really DOES need ditch diggers too. The work is getting done but the work ethic is gone. We want an Obama endorsed brand of McSocialism because deep down, we want to work and be productive. We just don't want to work in something so callous and cold as the capitalist system had become. It was the best system but it had and has its flaws. But to be lulled to sleep by the promise of equality toted by the current form of the Democratic Party is laughable.

We do not need neo-socialism, we need better capitalism. Darwin has and had a point about the state of mankind's development but so did and do all the bible thumpers of the world who believe that the innate goodness of man demands that he look out for his fellows and the complete exultation of his character. Socialism demands that the state legislate a form of togetherness that is best expressed individually out of true love and affection. To try and change this is folly. But to change ones own personal drive and moxie and ambition for life WHILE simultaneously looking after the needs of others is truly the work of a lifetime. It's the very idea that Jefferson himself preached even though he did not totally live. We still can if we want to but I wonder if we even want to at this point.

It demands a combination of things. Government and business have a lot to do with it but it's far too easy to shift the blame from ourselves, the real victims of this charade. We must carry the torch forward for self reliance and social justice in this country through the sweat of our brow and the blood in our American heart. A new patriotism demands a desire to get back to the soil and make a better way for ourselves, not shift the blame to others. We must never let any government forget that we drag the plow and that we need the fields to plow in. Ditch digging in the land you shit in is proof that you love the land you shit in. I'm not sure we like out latrine of a country anymore but I still do enough to toil in my shithole with a smile on my face and hope in my colorless soul.