Here in the western world we live in biblical times. We have for quite awhile and will continue to do so until we have reached our apocalypse. It’s an unfortunate position to be in for a Taoist such as myself who prefers The Way filled will the myriad creatures as opposed to being sold an investment in the next life for the mere sacrifice of the one I already have. It’s the hustle of the money changers offering the shill one set of useless symbols for another set of useless symbols.
Abbracapocus!
Your worthless dollars are now a worthless piece of magnatized plastic with its beastly number scawled across it. As you hold it in your hand with it’s number burned into your head do you ever get the feeling its just some kind of infernal joke? Of course it is, it’s the classic “give ‘em enough rope joke.” I like to think of it as living in the punch line of history’s long yarn.
Oh sure, it can be a little hard to keep your sense of humor about it at times. As Philip K. Dick wrote when his girlfriend was dying of terminal cancer. ”The worst part of it is I’m beginning to lose my sense of humor about cancer.” Dick was a real maverick in his thinking. Most dicks are. But you have to be a maverick, or a least think like a maverick, to make any sense out of the times we live in. After all, we live in a world where the leaders are so bodacious as to start the G20 Summit, during a time of total economic catastrophe that they engineered, on April Fools Day.
YO! I think Jesus said it in Matthew 24:28 – “For wheresoever the corpse is, there will the vultures be gathered together.” And Yada Yada Yada says the Hebrew. Lets face it. You can whine about the New World Order power elite all you want but it was the common rube who took the rope that they are now hanging by. And THAT, dear friends, is what brings me to my new motto, “Solvitur Ambulando.” Frater Perdurabo liked to answers his students questions with this reply. It means to solve by walking. What he meant when he said this was that to know how to do something one needs to do it. Put country simple, if you want to know how to make cornbread, you need to start making cornbread.
And this is where the Joe Americans failed themselves. In the best case scenario they’ve spent years working and SAVING their money for retirement only to find their money is vapor. Of course, it always was vapor but while the rope was being doled out they fell for the illusion because it made them feel safe in a non-existent future. Come to think of it, that’s not a very good best case scenario but its what a lot of decent, hard-working folks did.
Even worse, however, were the fools who thought they themselves would become like their gods the money changers. Leasing cars they would never own to drive to the mall with their credit card to change their image. Buying houses with nothing to flip for a future profit. Not caring at all how it would really work. Never asking where does value come from. They wanted to make something from nothing using the hocuspocus.
Ha, now they want to rail against Wall Street for taking what they never had in the first place. It seems going broke causes people to lose their sense of humor about money. And while they put their hope in a game of Three-card Monte played by the hacks in Washington they still don’t seem to understand that the money they are playing with is all part of the grand illusion.
In the end, with the entire world leveraged beyond its ability, the powers that be will be forced to overturn the table. They will lose all sense of control, blasting the old order to bits to bring about their New Order of the Ages. Just like in the Old Testament, their tower reaching to the heavens will be swept away. Those of us who survive will be forced to solve our problems by walking.
“Those who wish to embody the Tao should embrace all things.
To embrace all things means first that one holds no
anger or resistance toward any idea or thing, living
or dead, formed or formless.
Acceptance is the very essence of the Tao.” – Lao Tzu
