From the mind of critic: “If we have an old dresser thats haggered and ready to completely break down, do we set it by the side of the road for the trash man to take away, after we’ve smashed it to smithereens? Do we scour yard sales for a cheap and easy replacement, and attempt to cover up our self-inflicted destruction like nothing ever happened? Or do we trudge down to the hardware store for sand paper, stain and laquer, so we can refinish and bring back to life a dresser that’s been transformed into a shadow of its formner self because of years of neglect and apathy? In these crazy times we’re all forced to live in at the moment, America and the freedom and equality it was based on seems like a distant memory. Not that we’ve ever gotten over or handled issues of race, class, religion, abortion, guns or gays, which are all reasons we have Donald Trump as president, cause we never fully solved issues we thought were handled years ago. Since all of that is out in the open, all the crack, holes and flaws are available for all of us to witness. Given that we’ve all seen these flaws America has, do we feel it has been so corrupt for so long, we’re better off blowing up the system and starting over? Do we give up on the American dream that has never been fully realized? Or do we force the system to be better, by putting in the work to make it better? Once we realize that we don’t have to destroy to improve, we’ll see that clean slate thinking is the easy way out, because we don’t want to put in the effort to fix somehting we don’t shut up about. Fixing an old dresser might be alot of work, but it’s more fulfilling because we fixed what caused the deterioration, instead of buying another dresser, and kicking tha can down the road one again” 🙂