By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
Seems like we’re going over things we’d thought long resolved to see if that’s how we want them to remain. There is wisdom in that, of course. Pluto’s retrograde will give us some needed time to sit with the most recent decisions regarding government’s role in our lives: what it has promoted, what it has allowed, what it has failed to provide. We’re just beginning that thrill ride, of course.
The long-range transformative powers of Pluto are legion, and we can count on every scrap of our power structure to go through a process of assimilation before we’re done. The disparity of the voices in the national conversation is disorienting, though, just as it’s often hard to decide which historical era we’re reviewing, especially as it seems we’re reliving the worst of each.
Just the “re-do” agenda of the last weeks has been exhausting. The Trayvon case has shown us to be as conflicted over race, though not as overtly, as we were 151 years ago when the Civil War commenced. We’ve replaced slavery of a specific race with ghettoization of the whole working class to funnel good to the “Massah on the Hill.” Plutocracy is as hard-wired into our laws and banking system as it was when Teddy Roosevelt thundered against the corrupt captains of industry. And apparently — though you could knock me over with a feather — we’re as confused by the role of women in modern society as we were back in the ’50s, when only trash got knocked up but sometimes even nice girls forgot to hold that aspirin between their knees and ended up “in the family way.”