Jack Kerouac, Barak Obama, and Louis Armstrong

What do they have in common?

They all made their marks and entrance to the public consciousness as a voice of change. And they all have, or will, most likely make their exit from the public eye as a person bypassed by history.

Jack Kerouac foretold the counter-culture. A voice of a generation. In the end, he was a drunk fool and supporter of the Vietnam war who could not let go of his Catholic faith in a rapidly changing world.

Louis Armstrong was arguably the first mainstream African-American public figure. He brought Jazz to the masses and his life and death followed the course of American pop-culture for most of the mid-20th
century. In the end, he died being viewed as corny, outdated, and even an Uncle Tom.

Barak Obama came into power on a wave of Hope and Change. Its pretty clear that the individuals he has surrounded himself will in all liklihood not to be up to the challenge of what will unfold over the
next 3-5 years. History will surge and bypass him. The world he promised to change? He is now doing everything in his power to preserve -- while completely endandering our future. In the end, change will come, the old order will disolved, and he'll leave office with quite a shadow hanging over him.

Kerouac and Armstrong were vindicated and the immediacy of their
faults during their lives have mostly lost in myth. I'm sure the same
will become of Obama. His place in history is secure.

But once this collapse accelerates, the old order will do its best to
hold on (and is), but will ultimately be replaced. Political parties
that have become centralized due to a tv-driven culture will succumb
to a culture that receives its impressions of the world through the
internet. Captial that has been centralized in places like London and
New York will become dispersed, decentralized, and quickly shifted in
great proportion to Asia. The treasury will most likely be eventually
bankrupted (or really close to it) and the Federal Reserve will become
incorporated into a global banking system where power is not alone
controlled by the United States and its closest allies and favored
nations. Our position in the world will be irreversably changed, and
thus our own impression of what it means to be an American.

Unfortunately for Obama, and for the nation, the people that have
gotten us into this situation are blindly and incompetently trying to
fix a world broken by previous treasonous administration lead by an
amoral and mentally inferior member of the plutocracy that has ruled
the national and international order since WW I.

Oh, change is going to come.