or the process is already completed.

it is all open to interpretation. last night as the lights danced and mingled with the smoke the room seemed to shift in an instant. as my peers were pretentiously discussing politics bordering on conspiracy, a pastime that has been a personal forte since the early days of my youth when i became attached to ralph nader. however, last night was different. lately i have noticed the scope with which i view the world is refocusing, or the process is already completed. i no longer have the gusto or imagination that needs to be granted for long forays into political discussion, i just no longer have the motivation. there is no desire left to save the world through the american system, there is nothing driving me towards the revolution i once so vividly clung to. now i am just a man, content to analyze the important points of the system, the one who brings the idealistic back to the earth with a thought filled interjection. i do however fell like the america we grew up, the america of the 90's is lost and dead. the apparent reordering of the top players at the world table has come, and the united states must realize that we are going to shift out of the seat of ultimate power, or pay dearly to lose it eventually, paying in lives and a degraded currency for a few more months in the empirical sun. for me, the game is over, politics is no longer of the interest it once was. now i just want to be free, more so than i am here. more so than i will be without change. however, change is coming and the sun is setting on the american empire.