Dear C,
Thanks for sending this
video. http://www.dailyfinance.com/
Notice the first three “user
comments” on this Sunday morning, 3-10-13:
Uncle
lies, damned lies, and
statisics. Can't believe this stuff while there may be a grain of truth in it.
How come all politicians are wealthy?
hfb3rd
This guy's column is the
watering hole of the Karl Marx fan club.
John
They have the wealth for a
reason, because they worked hard and lived in a time where the government
wasn't hindering their potential to create jobs and prosperity. Communist
professors develop this stuff with too much time and 'grant' money on their
hands.
***
Although it is difficult to
prove that anyone can avoid the pitfalls of prejudice, it is striking how many
people want to be lied to, want to submit to the "worthy" "makers,"
want to worship putative success.
In the absence of "a
life," the adulation of economic celebrity (think Donald Trump) provides a
surrogate teat to suck on.
I first realized the ubiquity
of Aggressive Ignorance in America while teaching public high school in the
1990s.
Since that epiphany, it has
been an ongoing challenge to "deal" with the fact that the credos of
corporatocratic fascism are held as self-evident truths..
"The moral flabbiness
born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That - with the
squalid cash interpretation put on the word "success" - is our
national disease." William James (To learn more
about William James and his towering intellect, I encourage you to visit http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/james.html)
H.G. Wells expressed the
conundrum well: “Civilization is in a race between education
and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our
circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha
American
"Exceptionalism" -- at least as it manifests today -- distills to the
widespread belief that well-educated people should be held in contempt whenever
ideologically convenient. (When well-educated people provide dimwits with
medical interventions that save lives of family members, then they sing
unmitigated praise for "the best healthcare in the world."
In the words of St. Paul,
"The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."
Despite the tent-maker's genius, I harbor deep doubts about Paul, a repentant murderer who exhibits the turbulent fervor of a passionate convert needing to make amends for the serious crimes "of his youth."
And so, encouraged by Paul,
we endure the neo-barbarism of nominally Christian idiots who delight in
disdain for Reason and Science, two conjoined phenomena that Paul -- living in
a pre-scientific, largely superstitious world -- could not even imagine.
Admittedly, there are forms of "worldly wisdom" that are "foolishnes in the eyes of God."
Mostly, however, the
"foolish wisdom" that typifies modern America is espoused by Cowboy
Capitalists and their lickspittle lackeys, all of whom prostrate their
self-pithed selves at the altar of The Golden Calf.
Make no mistake: Mammon is the complete master of most American "Christians." And no matter how it is sliced and diced, even God's blessing on American "exceptionalists" does not permit service to two masters. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/capitalism-most-powerful-engine-of.html
Note that Yeshua's
"Woe Passages" are targeted, even today, at "good
church-goers..." just as they were in ancient Israel. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/pharisees-and-yeshuas-woe-passages.html
Not surprisingly, the
Pharisees of this generation are still focused on "stoning
adulteresses" and splitting hairs over doctrinal minutiae, ever ready to
impose unbearable burdens but never lending a hand to lift them.
Pax on
both houses,
Alan
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:43 AM, CC wrote:
Great, simple, clear video, -C
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