Saturday, June 21, 2014
Order vs Chaos
Most people understand that “freedom” without limits or restraints
quickly becomes chaos. Real freedom only exists within rigid boundaries,
and we call this state of balance “order”. Even nature is governed by
severe and unchanging laws that provide a backdrop for the unfolding
drama of living creatures in a magical world teeming with diversity.
In the same way, the Golden Rule gives society a backbone of behavioral
limits to encourage individual and collective enterprise, and promotes
free expression and free association within a framework of purpose and
reason. However, if that rigid skeleton is decayed through the
corruption of the very individuals and institutions that have been given
a mandate to uphold things like honesty, fairness and peaceful
relations, their hypocrisy fosters anarchy and chaos around the globe.
If the world ever needed a “Day of Judgment”, it is now.
The“bastions” of finance have turned out to be bloodsucking parasites
without conscience, and the elected “leadership” is either unwilling or
unable to curtail their greed. In fact, governments have rewarded a
frenzy of Ponzi schemes, fraudulent investment firms, and bankrupt banks
with an open door to the public purse.
National rulers around the world have begun to follow the example of
U.S. Presidents by using military force to wage war on “foreign
terrorists” within their own population and in neighboring countries.
Heavily armed troops are blindly attacking peaceful protestors without
mercy - simply following the orders of their chain of command without
question.
Man-made environmental disasters are increasing in size and regularity,
and the governing agencies are merely dancing puppets for giant
industries, selling the promise of jobs and wealth as a justification
for mutilating the planet to benefit a very few. As yet, nuclear
regulators (I.A.E.A.) have no authority to prevent reactors being built
on fault lines, and they still have no idea what to do with the spent
fuel rods. Massive oil spills have become the price of “progress”, and
global warming is still a debate.
If we allow ourselves to be ruled by professional manipulators, who use
half-truths, innuendo and bald faced lies to get themselves elected or
to remain in power, then we probably deserve whatever horrors the future
might hold. Reverence for truth, and respect for one another, used to
be the fire for religious revival and social change, but all the major
religions have chosen to portray Divinity in the image of a frightened
Ostrich, blissfully unaware of reality, having placed his/her bet on the outcome long ago.
