Clash of the Titans

The Church. The State. Big Business. Name your iconoclast here. We need these organizations. But there are inherent problems.

In my last blog I ranted about how political extremism unnerves me. And worse, how I hate to be mail-bombed with everybody’s junk mail on the subject. Before you paint me pink you should know I don’t like mail forwards to begin. I’ll save that for another day right now.

Okay, I bit off a big chunk today. My bad. I once heard a preacher say that one of the things that made sense to him was that the Church and the State had rolled through history correcting each other along the way. The clash between these two titans pulling things into a general balance. Not hard to see.

I have friends who have worked really hard for a lot of years and have been more fortunate than most to have many beautiful things as a result their efforts and good planning. In the current political climate, militant liberals frown on good people who have achieved so much and would love to find ways to whittle away at their nest egg through over-taxation. C’mon people. This is a democracy. I am all for capitalism. You work, you earn. A good thing.

Maybe Frederich Nietzche had something there when he said “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” or maybe he just proved that if you think about politics, religion, and philosophy too much you will just go insane.

Giving all of our individual power over to any one iconoclastic organization does not seem like a good idea to me. I don’t want any of the aforementioned organizations to be my Big Brother. When big business gets to do what they want unchecked you get Enrons and Bernie Madoffs. When banks go unregulated we now know what happens. At one time whenever Greenspan sneezed the economy shook and went into a different direction. He was one of the guys who pressed for de-regulation, got it, and we all got screwed, blued and, tatooed. It is hard to take the church seriously when it’s various denominations have leaders who engage in immorality, rake in tons of cash, and abuse their authority. On, another note who wants another Pizarro or inquisition?

I went through the majority of the Bush Administration without decent work, despite all my best efforts to have one. Corporations got tax credits for sending jobs oversees. if you ask me- Government interference in the Free Market. Business divisions got sold off to promote stock returns- shrinking job opportunities. So I am skeptical about the Republican party.The mess we are in is not going to be solved by pure Republicanism or pure Democratic Party policy.