A Quest for Human Triumph

The human spirit or that nondescript but distinct force inside every man, the one that drives us and sometimes prods us to conquer the odds, is often called upon to lift the morale of societies in trying times. There is no society untouched by the need to take recourse in such exhortations of the soul. Often, lead by the right people and not overwhelmingly hindered by the wrong ones, societies are able to self correct in order to rise and move. Such societies are truly called "great" and in today's world some nation states have achieved the kind of evolution which helps them to maintain such a status. However, there are still very delicate balances in every setup, however evolved it may be, which when disturbed too unfavorably in an adverse direction may upset too many pies at a time for it to be any longer reversible. What we are seeing today in the global economic crisis is a case in point. Today's vicious cycle of the bad begetting the worse is the result of one such big fiasco which sent the world's well established and highly evolved economy into a spin and tizzy. In the United States it first led to a self correction in the form of electing a smart, visionary leader during the presidential election, who won an election based on the promise and hope he generated during his campaign. However, recovery was slow and the right wing jumped on the impatient American's mood to start berating everything the President thought, said or did from day he took office. An unprecedented opposition to oust the threat of a progressive take over of the nation from an African-American started, and therein started the vicious circle of America having lost its core values and therefore becoming victim of a self inflicted crisis of policy, direction and hope. The crisis worsened with the people in their impatience, desperation or wisdom (whatever you choose to call it, depending on how incorrigible a believer you are in the collective ability of masses), electing an uncompromising and ideologically misguided group of representatives into the legislature, who have stonewalled every move by an otherwise sane majority to undertake any policy measures while hijacking the morale and reputation of this great country for fulfillment of their own mistimed whims. As the country faces one hit after another and the President and his blue caucus figure out how to extricate the nation from a path of downward spiral, tea has become a symbol of the crazy and the cause of America's inability to move away from the everlasting doldrums. In this day of doom and hopelessness, only a magic moment seems to have any promise for a better future. The quest for human triumph will continue till that time here in the greatest nation on earth.