There was a time I just assumed everyone was paying attention. But not anymore. It’s quite obvious the American attention span has been hijacked by American media, politicians, and the corporations that vie for our eyes and ears in their full-time efforts to affect our hearts and minds in ways they alone now seem to direct. It’s a sad statement on our culture that we would have allowed this to happen and more so that we stand back and watch it sink further and further into a mindless darkness that someday will be too dimly lit by moral soundness and common sense to even find our way back out to a place of decency toward even our closest of neighbor or friend. Selfishness, as it turns out, is still the building block of temptation that lures even the strongest into webs of irrational behaviour, with the result always in favor of the spider who builds the web. The only way to keep from getting tangled up in the web is to shine a light on the spider to remind you what lies in wait, and shows you the consequence you will surely face should you blindly crawl onto his turf. Just as no bail policies are wreaking havoc in the cities, as criminals have less and less consequence for their actions, the lure of selfish gain in our society is wreaking havoc on common sense, and spinning us further and further into chaos in our economy and our personal lives, as we discover too late too often that there is more to life than Starbucks and Viagra.
Without Light, We Wouldn't Know Darkness
Without Light, We Wouldn't Know Darkness
Without Light, We Wouldn't Know Darkness
There was a time I just assumed everyone was paying attention. But not anymore. It’s quite obvious the American attention span has been hijacked by American media, politicians, and the corporations that vie for our eyes and ears in their full-time efforts to affect our hearts and minds in ways they alone now seem to direct. It’s a sad statement on our culture that we would have allowed this to happen and more so that we stand back and watch it sink further and further into a mindless darkness that someday will be too dimly lit by moral soundness and common sense to even find our way back out to a place of decency toward even our closest of neighbor or friend. Selfishness, as it turns out, is still the building block of temptation that lures even the strongest into webs of irrational behaviour, with the result always in favor of the spider who builds the web. The only way to keep from getting tangled up in the web is to shine a light on the spider to remind you what lies in wait, and shows you the consequence you will surely face should you blindly crawl onto his turf. Just as no bail policies are wreaking havoc in the cities, as criminals have less and less consequence for their actions, the lure of selfish gain in our society is wreaking havoc on common sense, and spinning us further and further into chaos in our economy and our personal lives, as we discover too late too often that there is more to life than Starbucks and Viagra.