Not a FAQ: What IS the country we are living in now?   Throughout history, people lived in different - tribal, slavery, feudal, capitalist and socialist (including: communist and fascist) – societies. So which one did we end up in now? Do we have anything related to a tribal society? Of course, yes. Those new immigrants from Sudan and Somalia are still living according to their tribal cultures; the latest immigrants from Russia (Turks) and China, Cuba and Arab countries, Latin America, Burma and Bhutan are still following their national, mostly local and tribal, ancient cultural traditions and many – their formal national ideas and human interrelationships. Indeed, the ugly face of primitive tribal relationship and dependency on provincial local tribal subculture, and its backward leadership, is still among us.  Slavery? Certainly: thousands of American businesses are using illegal immigrants as slaves; several million Muslims here in America are using their wives as their personal property, just ½ of a human being, according to the Shariah Law, which they continue practicing on American soil. It’s all around us. Our government’s control freaks make all of us as their slaves step by step, with millions of pages of Tax Code and millions of regulations for our every move, every word and every action! Feudalism is not so visible, because it is mostly taken by the Federal and sometimes by State Administrations: Before the current leadership, over 30% of American soil belonged to the Federal government, but since that, during the last three years, the Federal government bought a lot of land in practically all 50 States, and now it could probably have 50% of all the land in this country. The USSR and China, as all communist countries, always owned 100% of the land of their countries. So, are we going in  this direction? Look at the privileges, perks and all the unbelievable benefits of the Federal and State government representatives, Congress and their aids. Didn’t they become the new aristocrats of our society? And we still continue believing that we live in classless society? Having such huge power, including the making of millions of dollars overnight, after using inside information LEGALLY, and spoiled by their almost lifelong power the Political class?!? Yes, they all are puppets. This Political Class of powerful puppets is played by much more rich and powerful financial kings and queens of our society, which are called the“1%”. Actually, their number is much smaller, not 3 million people (1%) but less than 0.1%, less than 300,000 multi-millionaires and billionaires of this country. This is another class in itself. Capitalism? Yes, it still exists, but it turns out to be corporate capitalism now. With its corporate caseloads, where no one is personally responsible for anyone and anything, with its personal and national ignorance and absolute indifference for anything but personal career, or simply his/her monthly wages: Corrupt to the core and self-destructive pervert capitalism. Yes, we have here our Communist Party of the USA which endorses Obama, and helps him to lead us to their goal society of global “equality” and “global “fairness”, like in Europe, which is already dying, or better to say, suffocating itself by its own false ideas. There are many fascists in our country as well: Black, Muslim, White… What about our popular culture? Why on all Prom events, have public High Schools played rap music for decades? Is it the most loveable and favorite music of ALL American youth? Can you dance with rap? No. Can you sing along with rap? No. Can you hear another person in a crowd when rap is performed so loudly? No. Did someone ask any of the young people what they want to hear at their Proms? NO. The popular culture in the USA became incorporated and corrupted as everything else in this country lately. I had a coworker whose HS son, not learning any music, started to play the guitar by ear, composed a few songs with a lots of “F” words of hatred and the most primitive tuneless “music”, performed it with his friends, recorded it and sent it to several record companies. His mom told us that soon after he received a contract for several million dollars to record his songs, and she’d better leave her F/T job to be his Manager, to share his wealth. No comments here.  So, let’s call our new society we all are living in now, the CCCP, or Corrupt Corporate Culture and Pop-culture. We’d better call it the New CCCP, not to mix it up with the Old CCCP, which in Russian means USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which was born in 1922 and died in 1993, after less than 72 years, you probably remember it being called the “Evil Empire” (Ronald Reagan).  I, as an immigrant from one CCCP (USSR) to another CCCP (Corrupt Corporate Culture and Pop-culture), can clearly see some resemblance of these two. No, they are not like brother and sister, but like some cousins. Maybe, like first cousins? Relatively speaking, it is a little bit too close for comfort. Another immigrant, Mark Steyn, described our new country in his new book “After America” quite vividly, recognizable, very funny, and dangerously ugly. P.S. The number 72 here has nothing to do with 72 virgins, but represents just one degree of our planet’s movement around the center of our Milky Way Galaxy (360 degrees=almost 26,000 years), which is well known to all astronomers and astrologers. And each period of 72 years, our Earth is swimming in an ocean of energies sent by certain constellations of stars. 72 years: from 1929 to 2001, from one memorable event to another in the USA; from 1917 (the year of Socialist Revolution) to 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall which represents the end of era of 55 years of the Iron Curtain for the USSR citizens who were closed from the outside World completely, and it represents – 1989 - the beginning of the end of the “Evil Empire”). Readers may continue this analysis, looking at China, which was born in 1948 and in 2020 will probably experience political/economic collapse? Or Israel, the country which also was miraculously born in 1948: what will happen there in 2020 – Armageddon?       Israel Kremen Comments can be sent to author’s blog: http://culturesite.livejournal.com