The title of today’s column is not a bad prayer. Paraphrasing Burns, “the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray”. His writing, by the way, is so true that the original final three words, “gang aft agley ” have definitely gone astray.
Very few things we do turn out as well as we intend. Most of them turn out worse, and the damage they do is often so painful to contemplate that we turn away from honest analysis with a shudder.
As our station in life becomes more important, the capacity to make bigger mistakes moves into the “disaster” category.
Public Officials tend to screw up whole countries. Of all the Public Officials, those who are elected tend to make the biggest messes of all. As they sell their votes to various special interests, they are utterly unable to fix the messes they’ve made of things.
England, for instance, was once one of the finest places in the world to live. Then, generations of depraved socialists intentionally destroyed it. There was no royal figure, no elected official, no Church, no force at all that would, or could, stop the destruction.
Error can only be cured by truth. But, not one official in all of once-Catholic England dares to say: “Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Lord, save us from the mess we’ve made.”
They are blinded by their own enlightenment. And England devours itself.
Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Lord, save us from the mess we’ve made.
