Wisdom is one result of growing older. As our minds absorb more and more of what’s happening around us, we become of how many people are willing to tell lies to justify taking money from us. Anger frequently results. Property owners and renters are particularly susceptible.
Property taxes go up every year. In most school districts, there are ever-fewer children and more personnel. Reductions are never made in spending, so the burden on owners and renters continually escalates. When people become aware of how badly they are being ripped off, some become angry.
There’s no point in wasting energy. As has been pointed out in previous columns, when automation and outsourcing jobs to cheap, offshore labor takes place, there are simply not enough jobs in manufacturing and agriculture to keep millions of people off the street.
When we see that our purpose in life is to get our souls to Heaven, we also understand that we must not allow ourselves to be distracted by people who love material things so much that they will participate in a lie to get them.
The little bits of pottage they are able to accumulate by living in a lie that has taken a powerful, structural form that allows tax money to be given to those within it in no way compensates for the endless agony that follows.
