Let age-old truths guide us
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Editor,
Behind the need to control is the driving force of the human desire to establish for themselves an advantage. Money, ownership, recognition, prestige among selected peers, all become the motivators of control. No human is immune. Our very nature demands that we attempt to stay one step ahead of our neighbor. History proves that the dominance of one group is always at the expense of another. If the human race was a wheel and all ethnic branches of humanity were spokes, we would quickly see that the power of today will be rolled to a new point tomorrow.
Wealth, power and self-righteous glory to any group of men or the single man, becomes a fleeing fantasy. Yet human arrogance still tells us to go out and fix things. By throwing money at a problem or using the weight of elected office we can change the attitude, beliefs or personal needs of those who simply don’t understand our perceived superiority.
As long as we stand at the top of the wheel our assumed superiority will allow us to consider, with pity, the concerns of the spokes that bear the wheel’s weight.
There is however, a real danger. Wheels are made to turn. In our time progressive thinkers are dominating the news. Abortion, homosexuality, non-traditional marriage and living styles, lawlessness, altering the facts of history to promote their “new” thinking, abandoning the foundation of rational thinking in their visionary attempt to right the wrongs of yesterday, are prime examples. Their vision quest is their power. They believe the human race can reach utopia with just a few more open-minded intellects. Yea for our side. There is just one problem, when you right a wrong at the expense of others you create a new group who at a given time will challenge your righteous authority.
As food for thought, maybe the human race is incapable of nirvana. Maybe we need to be guided by the truth of spiritual authority. There is only one level playing field, maybe we should let the goalkeeper control the game and play according to the age-old truths given by the one authority that is unchangeable.
Joseph G. Brooks
Ronan
