USA 2.0

DoubleSpeak 2024

The American Dream needs an update, a USA 2.0, a new vision, a new sense of cohesion, a functional society that works for everyone, no more of the same old, the selling of individualism and competition as the way to get more pie, more glory, while social cooperation, any sort of we- live-together-in-the-same-hive, anything called “sustainable”, gets villainized and kicked to the curb.

USA 2.0 may require a re-brand, complete with a new flag, new colors, new rules for doing business, new definitions of success, and a new acknowledgement of the common welfare, a new thinking where the future of our children, yours and mine together, becomes more important than profit.

Can it be America’s become more of an economy, rather than the emotional and philosophical sanctuary it was meant to be?

The answer is obvious in the questions we ask of each other, the what-do-you-do, our expectations of ourselves and our children, the constant counting, comparing, the measuring growth in charts, reports and apps, using the language of money, war and pro sports to climb higher and higher, only to discover there’s always further to go.

USA 2.0 needs to love quickly and kindly, as awkward as that feels, to survive together, to adapt itself again, to leap into the unknown like that inexperienced nation of confederated states who wanted to discard the fears and hatreds of other societies to create a new future, and remember history doesn’t ever care what happens, or matter much at bedtime when only the safety of our children does, yours and mine together.