The Struggle To Be Great - Part Two

Conservative editorialist David Brooks wrote in May 2011, that ‘Americans have always been known for their manic dynamism . . . energy has always been the country’s saving feature.’ He denounced the ‘One-fifth of all men in their prime working age . . . not getting up and going to work.’ He states that this is costing taxpayers’ $115 billion a year and adds, “The problem has to do with human capital. More American men lack the emotional and professional skills they would need to contribute.”

Human capital? Contribute? When I hear this kind of 'patriotic' rhetoric, I am reminded not only of slavery but the Billy Joel song ‘Allentown.’

"Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got - If something happened on the way to that place, they threw an American flag in our face." - Billy Joel's song "Allentown"

The rich and the wealthy have a really bad habit of stealing away good paying jobs from hard honest laborers and then blaming them for no longer working. “Sure,” they say, “you used to make $30 an hour with great benefits working in a steel mill but now you have to start over making minimum wage at McDonalds – so what? Re-invent yourself.” Meanwhile, the global companies send the jobs overseas and post record profits – Yea for the stockholders.

This insensitive thinking doesn’t speak much to greatness, just crass insanity and bold-face greed..

When the media reports fluctuating unemployment numbers they hardly ever reveal the racial differences. Latest reports about declining unemployment numbers across the country failed to reveal no change for black workers. In some urban cities, unemployment rates for African-Americans remains as high as 40%. You don’t hear those kinds of numbers very often in the general media because they don’t want you to recognize the racial imbalance still inherent in the American system. Capitalism was, still is, and always will be a racially bias system. Capitalism is purely a white European economic model rooted in Greek and Roman Republics that thrived not on human freedoms but on human slavery.

People in America still think the examples of Greece and Rome worked.

“The United States was born during the Age of Enlightenment. . . The architects of our government were excited by the democratic and educational ideals of ancient Greece and Rome. . . Our Founding Fathers . . . dreamed of recreating earlier democratic societies where men had lived in general peace and self-government without the fear of religious and intellectual intolerance.”

Ask all the slaves and dominated people who served the needs of Greece and Rome’s democratic dreams, if ‘general peace’ really existed for them. The truth has not changed. Greece and Rome were tyrannical slaveholding empires and if that is America’s ideal example of self-governance, we need to recognize the ugly truth. Governments and economies are all the same. They all need a lower class, a slave labor workforce operating so the upper class can prosper; just different packages for the same old gift. It is freedom for some and oppression for others.

Christ was always about saving the oppressed - not enriching the successful and prospering.

To claim that human beings are ‘capital’ is to evoke the days of slavery.

Make no mistake about it, conservative minds want to re-employ this 40% African-American workforce but only at a rate so low, so inhumane, that base survival becomes their life ambition and entrepreneurs (or plantation owners) can continue to live “in general peace and self-government without the fear of religious and intellectual intolerance.” Someone else has to suffer for the upper classes peace and their safety and right to self-governance.

Who gets representation by lobbyists in Washington? How many lobbyist can the poor afford?

Capital is another word for 'money', and if human beings are considered capital or money, it is no different than calling them chattel. It means humans can be overvalued and devalued, held in reserve, possessed, invested, owned and traded. For the industrialists and the bankers, human resources are no different than chunks of coal or barrels of oil. The religion of money is just a passive-aggressive way to keep human resources – or slaves – in line.

There is nothing worse in this world than a slave that doesn’t realize they are a slave. They don’t want no trouble. They just do what master says; master being ‘money.’ They just do what their job requires; omitting from their conscience the evil it does to some for the good it does for others. It is after all, just a job – right?

“For essentially practical reasons, (English America) would find chattel slavery both a viable and a perfectly acceptable means of providing the assured and permanent workforce they considered necessary for the maintenance of their own freedom.” – The Origins of American Slavery (pg.19)

The rich have claimed ownership of the landscape and the resources of the Earth. They know you cannot navigate your life without access to these things and money is the only way to get them. They know you don’t know what else to do with your life if you don’t have money, or work for money. You are blinded by its power and its influence. The rich never really care what you think about philosophically or politically. You can be a Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Muslim or atheists; you can even support capitalism, communism, tyrants or kings; but at the end of the day you’re all coming back to the altar of money. Think about it. Even despots like Hitler and Hussein still had to “pay” for their wars. They had to pay at the altar of money the same way democratic societies pay for their wars. Money is still at the heart of everything that happens in this world and a necessary evil for even the evilest of men. Money doesn’t care about your values or your governments. It has a life of its own.

As long as you are alive, you will want more money, work for more money, fight for more money, steal for more money, and yes, even kill for more money. Whatever you religious convictions and your confessions concerning your faith in gods and goddesses, money is still the altar everyone prays at.

Money is the one world religion and the more global the currency of this religion becomes, the more authority the great beast has on this Earth.

Revelation 13:16-17 ‘And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name: And that no man might buy or sell, save that he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.’

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In June 2011 a community editorialist wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel how condominium co-op boards in some places “have a right to approve or deny potential buyers based on financial resources and criminal background.” A certain real estate agent was quoted in the article as saying, “It’s a better class of people.” The editorialist then came to the same conclusion I did, which is that some people apparently live “with this misguided notion that financial resources . . . and lack of criminal record . . . somehow elevates a person to a more noble level of existence.’

If we are not careful with this ‘elevation’, with this civilized stair climbing towards “a more noble level of existence,” we can become proud and arrogant rather quickly. If we look at one another as Christ looked as us, as “there is none good,” then those without a criminal record are not any better than those with a criminal record, and those with good financial histories are not any better than those with bad financial histories. We are all one body for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of Yah.

Look at Nathan Meeker. You probably never heard of Nathan Meeker. Well, Nathan Meeker was appointed to the agency over the Utes Indians in 1878. As Dee Brown wrote in his book “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” (pages 372-374), “He sincerely believed that it was his duty as a member of a superior race to enlighten the Utes.” He even wanted the Utes to refer to him as “Father Meeker because he looked on them as children – but they did not to his displeasure.”

How do the superior-minded treat their children that are not their children? They follow the example of Nathan Meeker who “was determined to enlighten them by first, systematically destroying everything the Utes cherished.”

America’s whole struggle with Islamic terrorism is no different than genocide of Native American tribes. America is trying to systematically destroy everything Muslim’s cherish by using certain incidents of their resistance to coax fear. Selah.

In the Old West, white people generally feared Indians not because of firsthand experience with Indians, but because of the propaganda fed to them by great and ambitious industrialists trying to steal their land. Every effort of resistance the Indians made to preserve the things they cherished was used to embolden the war against them, as if these ‘savages’ wanted a war.

People living in Western Democracy’s today do not fear Muslims because of firsthand experience, but because of the racially bias garbage fed to them by a greedy commercially-motivated media. The industrialists exploit resistance, and paint their violence as savage, thus making retaliation just.

America is not perfect. America can consciously or inadvertently kill thousands of innocent people and financially prop up tyrants worldwide BUT any violent action taken by those people being massacred and stolen from is immediately exploited and proclaimed to be so far outside the realm of humanity that it has to be stopped. People resisting theft, assimilation and annihilation are savages. Those who are stealing, converting and rescuing are civilized.

Indians were as much a symbol of terrorism in days gone by, as Muslims are today. People without jobs and have poor credit ratings and criminal histories are seen as unfit members of society that will destroy society with their neediness. Society has to be saved – not people. The argument is the same.

Superior minded people always make enemies of those they can’t take advantage of; they call you non-conformist. If you refuse their invitations, their seductions – you will be tarred and feathered and run out on a pole. Superior minded people believe they are embolden by “God,” by hard work and by wealth and above savage behavior, above financial indiscretion, and above lawlessness, even while they are killing, stealing and break laws. The hypocrisy is amazing.

“ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of Yah!”

Superior-minded people don’t believe they have come short because they have a lot of pride in themselves and in their manic dynamism. They, like America, are the “exemplar of virtuous behavior and a template for others.” (The Constitution of Imperium by Ronnie Lipschutz (pg 12)

From pages 376 to 386, Dee Brown tells us more about good-old Nathan Meeker and his “fatherly” love for the poor childish Utes. Remember, all Nathan Meeker wanted to do was enlighten them. When there were random forest fires caused by drought, he blamed the fires on imaginary bands of Utes. When he himself ordered the grazing grounds of the Utes ponies be torn up, some of the Utes took up arms to protect their rights to the land. “Meeker called them a bad lot of Indians who thought themselves lords of all.” As the situation escalated, he sent telegrams to Washington requesting military protection, saying, “Life of self, family, and employees not safe.”

That telegram sounds a lot like the conservatives bewailing Occupy Wall Street protestors when occasional violence hit to close to their homes. According to the innocent workers of banks and global industries who were ‘just doing their jobs’, the actions of the protestors who were having their homes foreclosed upon, their grazing grounds stolen, were uncivilized and they should be forced to lay down their arms and walk away, like good little children. Conform damn it.

You know, there were a lot of people conforming and ‘just doing their jobs’ when the Nazi’s loaded unwanted human cargo into cattle cars and sent them to concentration camps. The people in the business offices and banks and working at the railroad station weren’t all Nazi soldiers. They were just average citizen doing their jobs. They didn’t want no trouble. Whatever was happening to all these other people was just their own fault. Think about it. Selah.

For Christ’s sake – Just leave the pony grazing grounds alone and you’ll be safe. Forgive some debts now and then, wash away some sins, help the poor and the needy and you won’t have so many disgruntled people rising up in desperate efforts to protect themselves from the greedy who just want more. Stop supporting the insatiability of the ravenous by labeling their accomplishments ‘well-earned success.’

When people approach a problem from a superior-minded point of view, the solution is always based on the behavior of the inferior person. How the Indians, the Jews, the Gypsies, the poor, the homeless, and the unemployed react is always more important than the things that happen to them to begin the problem. The people who are in debt and losing their jobs and their homes are to blame – not the ones who took them away and built the system that enslaves them.

America could not be wrong for wanting to take the pony grazing grounds away, so the problem has to be with the Indians and their failure to assimilate and behave civilly – surrender all they cherish. Germany could not have been wrong for wanting to rid themselves of the Jews, so the fault lay with the Jews and the things they cherished. Wall Street could not be wrong for bankrupting and foreclosing on the poor and unemployed, so the fault lay with the poor and the unemployed.

It is so easy for the leaders and employers of this world to twist truth. And it is so easy for those people safely employed by the oppressors to just go along with the system and live “in general peace and self-government.”

Thank “God” the Occupy Wall Street protestors finally did some stupid violent things and behaved in unseemly ways, and even urinated in public. Now we can officially slap the “heathen” label on them and wipe them out by force if necessary.

And conservative’s everywhere knelt down and prayed to “God”, “Oh please Lord, let it be by pepper spray and power. Rid us of these unfit, unemployed, socialist heathens before they destroy OUR society. Amen.”

END OF PART TWO

This is part TWO of a five part series on the Christian's place in a world striving to be great.

There are only two kingdoms that exist - The one that is this world and the one that is coming.

I am preaching for Christ and for His kingdom. His kingdom is not of this world.

Ask yourself one question. Would America have crucified Christ?

When people talk about saving nations, it's like saying 'Corporations are people too.' Salvation is for individuals, not groups, tribes or nations. These hubs are intended to lead you out of nationalism and into the light of individual salvation.

America would have crucified Christ and it does so every day. When politicians destroy anything intended to help the poor and the needy to save money and expand industry, they crucify Christ anew. Selah. Peace