I am not sure I know where to start, but I fear
that I know where to end. The constant pounding by the 24 hour news media rarely leaves time to apply any perspective to anything. Nor does it
leave much time to search for the roots of the insanity visited upon us daily. One thing for sure is that we have created a culture that is
suffering from a multiple personality disorder. It is part politician, part religious zealot and part moral relativist and all of them parsed
with some form of hyphenated Americanism that is reported about to us by media suffering from the same disorder. If we do not apply the right
therapy to this disorder, it will surely drive us into jumping off of history's bridge.
It is hard to figure out how we got where we are, but we better soon realize where we are headed. Politics is our new national wealth
producing industry. Most media hours and print pages are either filled with politics, and politicians or so-called political strategists
talking about politics and spinning for the politicians. We spend so much time on the personalities that we lose track of what it is exactly
that politicians should be doing. Politics is an elitist sport that has totally consumed our country. Congress is America's own little
House of Lords. The next great American leader might be sitting on a tractor somewhere out there in the heartland, but if he is not already
wealthy or supported by wealthy and influential backers he will still be riding his tractor and scratching his head on the day that America
finally leaps from the bridge.
What squirts through the little end of the media funnel, bombards our senses at high velocity. It is almost like trying to drink from a fire
hose. A media that is prone to choose sides and report accordingly determines what comes first through the funnel. Each of us manages to grasp
some parts of what gets through, but too few of us, self included, rarely see things clearly until it is too late to change our course. Still,
the stories of the day almost always include some parts of America's chronic and possibly fatal personality disorder.
Moral collapse follows spiritual collapse. - C. S. Lewis
Add one part politics, one part moral relativism. Blend for a few years. Produce a failed politician, a disgraced family and a wealthy
hooker.
We just watched a state's governor crash and burn over his craving for hookers. The same man once prosecuted prostitution rings. Ethics
was his mantra, but he failed to walk the talk. Clearly it was with the ethics of others that he was concerned. One of the first things mouthed
by the pundits was how sorry we all are for his poor wife and children. It is sad for them, no doubt, but do not place that burden on anyone
else when it clearly belongs to Governor Spitzer. It is he that should have shown concern for his family. Then the spin doctors emerged sharing
all the morally relative arguments we heard once before. It is a private matter. Prostitution should be legal anyway. It is after all a crime
without a victim.
Then there is the story of the young woman. Her pictures are plastered everywhere. It is reported that she made several hundred thousand
dollars from a song downloaded from her website. The pundits predict that within weeks, she will be a millionaire several times over. Once
again, our new culture teaches young women that the way to wealth and fame is to follow the paths Paris, Britney and now "Kirsten"
the prostitute.
"I believe Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything
else." - C. S. Lewis
Add one part politician, one part religious zealot, blend for 20 years then add a dash of hyphenated Americanism and twist of liberally
biased media and get a leading presidential candidate.
We were graced this week with many excerpts from the sermons of Barack (NMN) Obama's Preacher, Jeremiah Wright. While listening to that
bilge spew forth, I was also noticing the cheering congregation. When he said God Damn America, they cheered. When he accused America of
inventing the AIDS virus as a form of genocide, they cheered. When he said that on 9/11 America's chickens came home to roost, the
congregation cheered. There is not an Imam in the Middle East that could have whipped an angry crowd into a frenzy any better than Jeremiah did
it. What Jeremiah Wright preaches is not Christianity. It is black separatist, racist, American hating garbage. He is a Louis Farrakhan clone
trying to pass himself and his Church off as Christian. It appears that Obama and Oprah bought it. Do you want to know what is sad? People who
are not Christian and who never attend a Church service will point and say that is why?
Barack (NMN) Obama has belonged to this church for 20 years and claims to have never heard these sermons before. And I just fell off the
turnip truck. Most of the biased media will say OK, he explained it, nothing else to see here. And then, moving ever closer to the edge of that
bridge, we will end up with someone in the Whitehouse that we will not even know. Until it is too late.