If everyone is falling, how fast are we, ourselves falling? We can’t tell without an unchanging, permanent, unmoving point by which we can judge our direction and speed.
Today, for instance, a few days after the U.S. Federal Reserve printed more money, the Euro went up in value. The Euro had not gotten any stronger. The United States, with its third round of “quantitative easing”, had successfully devalued its money so that the dollar is now falling faster than the Euro.
For a few days, the dollar is winning the race to the bottom.
Both the Euro and the dollar, like their respective societies, are falling. But, the Euro, for a few days, is sinking more slowly, so it appears to be rising. “See, things are getting better.” Europeans announce, pleased to find a reason to speed up the printing presses and make the Euros worth even less.
Both currencies are in a classic “race to the bottom”. Morals and behaviors, we may notice, are sinking fast, as well in a more serious race to the bottom, one with eternal pain as the prize.
Why don’t those who are falling turn to God? Why don’t they at least seek an immovable point from which they can see where they’re headed? The answer is always vanity.
Those who want to be able to dictate what their money is worth do not want the gold standard. Those who want to commit sins do not want the concept of a God Who will judge and sentence them according to how well they obeyed His Commandments. They want what they want when they want it.
When people turn from an unchanging standards because they are in their way, they worship themselves. Their feelings become the dominant reality.
Those who prefer to be ruled by their own desires fall. Some put off the pain by falling more slowly, watching their diet and avoiding the more obvious death-dealing dangers. But for all of them, it is the race to the bottom.
In the race to the bottom, the winner is the biggest loser.
