Complacency embodies that Godless state of being in which we humans grow inured to all the lies we gladly feed ourselves, the countless cheap, ornate, conceited, vainglorious myths, self-aggrandizing auras and delusions of grandeur so perfectly poised to precipitate a fall.
♣ We humans are a phony race, pompous and shallow. Proud, vain, jealous, self-centered and pretentious, we propagate the myth of having staged our own creation. We’re quick to steal credit for our personal appearance, our intelligence, advantages, our veritable existence. We lie to both our neighbors and ourselves with alacrity, willfully, implicitly partaking in the species-wide conspiracy, not to merely doubt but to flout the very existence of a Creator God. After all, the world over, what human being has never come to contemplate somewhere near the crust of his subconscious mind precisely how God earned His singular destiny, why God and not mankind should claim for all eternity the nonpareil privilege of identifying as God, what a cruel and quite humiliating affront this represents to mere humanity, itself left to settle for so much less, why we mortals can’t ourselves be counted limitless gods when indeed we’ve been so lucky as to stumble upon the fortune of a Unique God who lets us BE at all.
♣ How does man remain so self-absorbed and shallow, so ignorant and flawed yet wax so complacent, so pumped full of pride and such a false pride at that? Of what characteristics are we all that proud when in the vast scheme of things the most accomplished of us know next to nothing, have nothing, make nothing and our untapped potential hangs loosely on the infinite grace of a beneficent unseen force?
♣ The United States Constitution guarantees equality but no law stymies its obverse. Though capitalism challenges the US Constitution in begetting a grotesque inequality, still, it succeeds in producing that same inequality, succeeding with conspicuous impunity. Our compromised Democracy supports both the US Constitution and a system of capitalism. In keeping, it has long underwritten an explosive yet enduring dichotomy of beliefs, values, principles, allegiances and social strata risen to a boil. Nowadays it churns in a seething vat of conflagrating energies, merging in a blaze of inextinguishable flame, that fiery and never-ending clash between propitious equality and gross disproportion. The wealthy of America have far outrun the poor at last.
Serving Constitution and capitalism alike, our democracy only guarantees equality in the selfsame stroke it enables inequality. It pits both ends against the middle. Our Constitution compliments democracy even as capitalism serves to undermine it. Democracy and Constitution coexist well. Can antagonists democracy and capitalism coexist without destroying one, the other or both?
Since they flourish in the abstract, ironically, the best parts of man remain the hardest ones to fathom, the easiest to devalue and the likeliest to neglect. Frightful depths of thought or feeling alone may awaken them, assimilate them, avert the devastation which exploits their slumber .
♣ While they tend to grow elusive or ethereal, confused or confounded, as long as thought and feeling persist, these fundamental qualities, faith, hope, love, charity, grace, truth, beauty, valor and excellence, the elements of human spirituality, will always be valid, always relevant, always healthy, stirring, heartening, always right, just and good and there will always be the hope that man may extricate himself from the mercenary jaws of destruction yet one more time.
Much Astounded, Sneering, Indignant Social/Political Commentary, Some Editorial Cartoons, Lots of Criticism, a Spot of Parody, Bits of Satire, the Odd Philisophical Rant, Passing Thoughts, Spontaneous Ramblings, a Few Wry Remarks, the Frequent Desultory Philippic, Not a Little Dyspepsic Curmudgeonry and a Forum
