Many are rightfully worried about the state of the economy and the insane tinkering that supposedly brilliant thinkers are doing. We see one bail-out after another, all of them carefully avoiding doing anything real to solve the problems.
All their tinkering either raises taxes or lessens the value of money. Such facts are studiously ignored while platitudes and excuses are embraced. “We have to really jolt the economy!” the experts say, oblivious to the meaning of their words, but seeming, truly seeming, to be doing something.
The saner souls among them realize that no government program has ever worked, and that no government program can work. Government programs are invariably designed to increase the power of the government that sponsors them, and that is the only thing they are designed or allowed to do.
When we see them tinker and blunder, and then do it on ever larger scales again and again, we understand that they are pretending to help while they and their friends prosper from special favors. The greater danger to their souls is not that they lie, but that they lie about the lies. As the process of “helping” continues, their poor souls sink farther from truth, which is soon invisible to them, obscured in the fog of their lies about their lies.
Many citizens are outraged by the lunacy and the damage done. Some become angry at them for stealing. Such anger wastes a great deal of time and energy. We may as well try to teach a snake to smile as to teach a lost soul to value truth when that truth involves losing both money and status.
Most of the water in a waterfall is in turbulence as it falls ever farther. But, within the flow are many, many bubbles that just float along, often rising above the rocks and into the air itself, becoming one with the clean clearness above.
