A Sad Confession

I hate to sound like a buzzkill, but I have a certain resentment of American society, and that resentment renews itself every time the National Football League has its first games of the late summer, and the sports networks welcome fans back to another season of eager devotion to their team of choice.

I wouldn’t have these feelings were it not for certain horrific facts:

• The planet is rapidly losing its capacity to support organized human civilization.

• People are starving to death due to our nation’s support of genocide.

• Americans are becoming more ignorant and hateful with each passing year.

• The United States continues to teeter on the edge of losing its democracy and become just one more autocracy.

Each August, I wonder if there will come a time that irreversible climate change has turned most of the planet into a wasteland, only to hear once again that the Dallas Cowboys are America’s team, and that Budweiser is the King of Beers.