Shangri-La and the "visionary" Trump's endangered species.
Great visionary Trump is gutting the endangered species act that has helped species recover from the blindness of industry that puts profits ahead of a productive and pleasant future world. What crisis is causing such foolish action?
America had real visionaries in the real crisis, World War II. Prior to this war, Americans read the novel, Lost Horizon. In that novel we learn that the people of this fictional paradise hoped to help a world, that was destroying itself, recover. The people of Lost Horizon were saving treasures such as the idea of being kind to each other, so that it would be there for the world after the crisis.
President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) even named his presidential retreat after the paradise in Lost Horizon, Shangri-La. (Now called Camp David) When the war unsurprisingly came, FDR not only prosecuted the war but envisioned a future for after the war. His four freedoms speech (freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want) inspired the world to look towards America to lead the world to a better future. Even now in Hong Kong, they are looking towards the ideals of that America. Sadly, those ideals are buried in Trumps America.
What does Trump envision for Americas future? FEAR! Loss of freedom to an autocrat? A silent spring without birds? Plenty of low-paying, un-inspirational jobs? Private wealth for his own children? Gutting just about every wise, modest choice in favor of blind industrial destruction of our lands, character and lifestyle? And finally, a not-so-diverse nation of opioid-addicted white people. Even now the bad karma of Trumps concentration camps are destroying America. Wheres the real vision for the day after evil Trump destroys himself, his followers and damages the rest of us?