Human Condition

It doesn't matter that there isn't time enough for everything.  That's the nature of the world.  There isn't time to do all that needs to be done.  There aren't enough time and resources to accomplish all that our humble perception reports to the creative, active mind.  Is spirituality enough?  Is Spirit sufficient for me?  Is employment enough?  Can it meet my needs?  Is art enough?  Does it accomplish anything worthwhile, even if it's only to make me feel good?  Spirit.  Commerce.  Art.

Spirit should be enough, and it is to the enlightened thought.  It is all-in-all to the heart on fire for spiritual things.  Is it surprising that the world is not on fire for Spirit?  It should not be, because the world doesn't set or hold the spiritual standard.  Who am I to judge?  Father, forgive me.  What do I know?  Maybe the world is on fire for Christ, and I am too depraved to see it.  I admit that as a possibility.  I have always tried to be objective about myself, about what I am.  It may be me who is the one consumed with darkness and depravity.  In which case, humble me Father and show me how to conduct myself, deeply flawed as I am, in this world.

The world doesn't set the standard of purity and goodness, Spirit does.  I don't set the standard for intelligence, morality, efficiency, and success.  For worldly things, the world sets its own standard.  I am not a world mover and shaker, so I am not involved in its standard setting and enforcement.  I'm just along for the ride, doing the best I can, and trying to live a good life, trying to figure out how to live a good life while there's still life in me.

I am a little, unimportant person and I can live with that.  I don't have to be a big shot.  I don't have to make a big deal out of living in the world.  I'm just here like everybody else.  The vast majority of people don't care about me, and that's the way it is for most of poor humanity.  We go it alone and most of us don't complain or cause trouble about it.  We just do what we need to do to get through life without causing too much trouble for others or drawing unnecessary attention to our insignificance.  We're here, we want to enjoy life as much as we can for as long as we can, and then go quietly into the eternal anonymity that is our common lot.  There's something noble and good about doing it and getting through it without a lot of fuss.  My sad time on the planet is no more tragic than any of the other millions of poor souls I share it with.  The commonality of human life chastens the individual and dissipates the tendency for either self-aggrandizement or self-pity.  Common humanity is life's great leveling power.  We might try to fight it, but the human condition will put each of us poor mortals in his place.

Mourning

Obama, Holder, Bloomberg, Cuomo.  Sad-eyed TV newsman.  I don't know you.  I don't want to know you.  I don't like you.  You're not my family.  Your people are not my people.  Why would I want to mourn with you over the deaths of little ones that I don't know?  Leave me alone.  I don't expect anything from you.  Don't expect anything from me.

Who cares about Mohammed?

Who cares about Mohammed?  I don't.  I don't think about him.  I don't want to say mean things about him.  I don't want to watch wacky videos about him.  And, it doesn't matter to me that Muslims are upset about him.  That's their problem.

The only problem I might have is if Muslim violence starts to interfere with my well-being.  Then, I expect the American government to negotiate a resolution with the offending Muslim country, or deploy military force to defend American interests and save American lives.

Typical Democrat

Debbie Schultz is a typical Democrat.  She's a liar.  She lies about lying.  She accuses honest reporters of lying.  Then, after her dishonesty has been reliably established, she insists that it doesn't matter.  It doesn't matter that she, a spokesman for Obama and the Democrat Party, is an habitual liar.

How can a culture survive and thrive on Democrat Party values like this?  It can't and it won't unless moderate, right-thinking people seize the public conversation from the American Marxists and reframe it honestly and responsibly.

Taking Blame

INTERNATIONAL MARXISM, STATE-RUN MEDIA, MIDDLE EAST

The state-run, Marxist-American press wants the American public to take the blame for violence in the Middle East.  Don't do it.  The Muslim mob perpetrators of Middle East violence are the only persons responsible for it.  It's not a movie.  It's not a cartoon.  It's not Mohammed.  It's not Islam.  It's not your fault.  Don't take the blame.

The people who want you to take the blame for violence in the Middle East are the cabal of international Marxists who are perpetrating it.  Don't be fooled.  Obama, the state-run media, and the international Marxists are running this show and trying to make the American people pay for it.

Framing the Debate

OBAMA, SODOMY, STEVENS, NEO-MARXISTS, FRAMING THE DEBATE

I had dinner with my parents on Wednesday evening, and learned from them about the murder and rape of Christopher Stevens by a Libyan mob.  The first words out of my mouth were, Did Obama apologize yet?  I wasn't surprised to hear that, actually, he had.

The degenerate American culture, lovingly nourished and protected by the state-run media, invites attack from violent radicals, dissidents, and mobs.  American neo-Marxists and the state-run media are enthusiastic supporters of mob violence.  Obama, neo-Marxists, and the state-run media are the mob in America.  The Chicago mob is America's chapter of the global mob.

The state-run media will not report the news.  They are too busy defining reality to the masses, and the degree of their success is shocking and shameful.  Obama and the neo-Marxists have used the tactic of putting cultural moderates on the defensive with their own humane values.  The state-run media distracts you from what is really going on and keeps you busy defending yourself from charges of racism, intolerance, and greed.  It is time to stop kowtowing to Obama and the American neo-Marxist mob.  Just say no!  You don't have to do it.  No one is making you do it.  Wake up to the truth that your good nature has been used against you, to manipulate and disarm you.  Stop feeling guilty for the evil of others.  You are not required to expiate the violence and anarchy of the global mob.  It's not your fault, and don't let the state-run media fool you into thinking that it is.

It is time to stop apologizing.  It is time to tell Obama and the state-run media, We don't care what you think of us, we know who and what we are, and we feel good about it.  It's time to stop engaging in the mob conversation.  It's time for cultural moderates and right thinking people to capture and frame the debate in this country.

Defeat neo-Marxist politics

The Democrat Party is the bastard child of Marxism.  Even as the old Marxist true believers have moved on and reinvigorated their countries with free enterprise, American Democrats are the decadent remnant of a failed philosophy.  The last bastion of Marxism, the Democrat Party, wreaks havoc on the American culture and economy.

Is it possible to overthrow and marginalize the radical/Marxist/Democrats?  It is necessary for the survival of the American ideal, and the health and prosperity of the American people.  The culture of this nation would greatly improve with the diminishment of the Democrat neo-Marxists.  Some political party or organization of citizens needs to do the work that will push the morbid corpus of neo-Marxism into the abyss.

Bitter Clinger

I must confess that I am a bitter clinger.  Well, maybe not so bitter.  Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts."  This is a good kind of clinging, which has made me more of a joyful clinger.  Had it not been for the divine afflatus, life would have been a bitter pill indeed.  As it is, my life has been a challenging adventure, punctuated by moments of sublime insight.

Atheism is enjoying a vogue of late.  It's cool and sophisticated to be an atheist.  It would be really cool to be a gay, atheist, disabled, minority, activist, community organizer, if you could swing it.  But, aside from all of its political connotations, what is atheism?  It is commonly defined by what it is not.  It is not faith in a supreme being, adherence to religious teaching, or membership in a religious organization.  Ayn Rand, anathema to most left-wingers, was an atheist.  One of the wonderful things about Ayn, was that she had so many other things to talk about than what she did not believe in.  Some of my best friends are atheists, but they are fun and interesting in spite of this peculiarity.  Contemporary atheism is part of the culture of resentment.  It is not so much a question of being an atheist as it is being against religious sentiment, organization, and expression.

I contend that to be compelling and competitive atheism must be passionately for something. Outspoken atheists believe that the shortcut to hegemony is to silence and deprecate clingers. That won't work. Atheists must compete with clingers for supremacy in the free market of ideas. And, after everyone has had their say, I'm going to meet my friends for dinner and talk about something else.