[Originally published Feb. 1992 in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper and part of my unpublished manuscript: "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die and other Essays]
Welcome to the Age of Mediocrity. Jobs are scarce. Money is very tight. Opportunity is almost nowhere to be found. Even true compassion and humanitarianism have largely flown out the window since the Reagan and post-Reagan Dystopias. The only thing that seems to be in abundance these days is mediocrity. So, as George Bush might say: "Never fear, there's plenty of Mediocrity to go around for everybody." Mediocrity is everywhere to be found, and is sometimes the only thing to be found.
Speaking of Mediocrity, George Bush wears it like a badge. He wallows and languishes in his mediocrity; and he even seems to take a great deal of pride in his mediocre, dubious accomplishments as President, and he expects us to do the same. If there were an annual or once a decade or so prominent example of mediocrity, George Bush would win the Yoko Ono box-set hands down (She's not named Oh No for nothing.). Bush is a first-rate liar, a seventh-rate President and a second-rate human being. (to be cont'd)
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