get them doggies rollin..

a couple days ago, i put my american flag up in the basement (backwards, to signal distress), sort of as an impulsive benign provocation. but i've grown to enjoy the flag being up. after living in colorado during 9-11, and all those goddamn ribbons/stickers/inyerface advertising exploitation, i found the image of the american flag repulsive and nauseating.
now that one of america's great cultural nexii has been crippled and faces the threat of gentrification and extensive white-izing in the rebuilding process, i feel a huge wollop of pride for this country. no longer do i associate america with the bush administration and despise it because of its institutionalization, but i think of america as the exponential sum of the creativity and vibrance of its land and inhabitants.
so that flag that's down in my basement is starting to grow on me.. when i walk by it, i think of the stregth and power of the folks in this country to rise up from dire and oppressive circumstances and reform their world into something that works better- an organic entity, evolving out of necessity and belief.
i often am chided for my eternal optimism and idealism. but i deadfuckin seriously dont think i'd be alive today without it, and i know i wouldn't be living the wonderfully rich life that i do. and this country wouldnt have been founded and extensively explored by the folks that did it without idealism. [ yeah, they were a bunch of exploitative shitheads themselves, as per the euro-centric paradigm of their time. but they were working within what they knew and could see past, though it was limited sight.] the belief in something greater, something more integrative, has empowered countless humans to plow through juggernauts of ignorance and illusionary power over and over again, impossible odds and hellacious conditions, blahblah archetypal blabbering.......

i just think that in the communication age, where our technological web is starting to resemble the intraneural network, there is no reason we cant come together and act towards a common dream and real-ise it. the impossible odds really arent that impossible- we just need to trust ourselves and eachother and get out there and moove.