Gotta
Eat and Live
(or,
A Monetized Way of Life)
So,
people gotta eat and live. Is that an excuse? What is it an excuse
for? Is its meaning that we cannot expect to eat if we are honest
and engaged in some noble work we love? How often has the story been
repeated of the young person who confides in his parents his heart's
desire to be an artist only to have his heart stomped upon and
crushed into goo before his eyes? To be ridiculed as a childish
goofball by someone he admires and loves? How does it feel? When done
with special vigor is it not obvious the parent is imitating his own
parent? And is it not his, the parent's, stored up pain that is being
unloaded on the child?
So,
people gotta eat and live. If asked, Do you believe in God? Would
your answer be in the affirmative? It is for most people and yet few
of them do any work that is satisfying to the soul. And nearly all
would crush such romantic notions from their children's thinking
instantly upon its discovery. Almost none would accept a plan by
their offspring that did not include financial security. So, what is
a God for? In my upbringing it was primarily offered as a source of
forgiveness for the sins which derive from my low base nature.
(Which God is given credit for creating in the first place) Seems, primarily, it is a useless thing held out to the neighbors as evidence I
am to be trusted. (Since a scheme has been presented for forgiveness
one need not seriously consider one's greed, meanness, cruelty, fear,
anger, etc. However even a young child will surely wonder
occasionally whether his sins are not being produced by the sins of
his father. After all, the kid knows he is not, at heart, a base
critter, but an enormously creative spirit.) And yet, nobody has met
a banker who will lend you money because you are religious or will
swear you know God. What is it the banker knows? Knows just how
afraid you are of insecurity. The more you are, the more he will
lend. Ironic. (So, fearful cowards gain most from a monetized way of
life.)
Some
people actually crave and adore insecurity for it brings them closer
to their God. People gotta eat and live.
