Monday, November 12, 2007

Eaten Alive by Plenty

We pay entertainers insane amounts of money and watch our teachers starve.

We pay athletes sickening amounts of money and watch our police officers barely survive.

We give politicians and lobbyists ridiculous amounts of money and allow the fine men and women in our armed services to live and die in terrible circumstances with barely a sincere nod.

We take and take and find other opportunities to take with only the slightest pretend acknowledgment given to those who supply us with what we're taking.

We consume and burn and pollute and only now we pretend to care about what we're doing to the earth that gives us our very lives--because now it's popular to care.

We read the writing on the wall and believe the earth is on the fast track for destruction. Call it God's wrath, call it man's stupidity and selfishness, call it the devil's last stand. Call it what you will, only we have the ability to change. We change us, we change the world. But when even our concern for others is born of a need to be richer; more popular; more revered; more than someone else, you can bet we will fail. And we will deserve it.

1 comment:

El Ponderado said...

No kidding. Popularity disguised as good is disgusting. Pure motives are what's needed. It's all that will work. Anything else is lip service in the name of false gods.