Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
.... And if economic systems can't solve the problem, what's left, Divine intervention?

an economic system is nothing more than a tool for shuffling money around. it's the ethics behind the political system in control that holds the solutions and that is far out of our reach. we should feel honored to be here to witness the moral disintegration of one of the greatest civilization known to mankind. our legislative branch is mired in partisan squabbling and its members spend more time glorifying themselves than taking care of the job they are overpaid to do, our judicial branch has sold their objectivity to agenda driven political machines, and our executive branch has delusions of grandeur more intense than even my own. we have filled our government with people who have lost the will to serve.

we have an uneducated population more concerned with who will be america's next top model than raising their own children and those children are learning the lesson of apathy well. it's an apathy born of the fact that while we were concerned with making better things, we neglected to try to make better people. instead of building a strong moral background for ourselves we have hidden behind the enforced morality of various religions, whose leaders are often as corrupt as our political leaders. instead of taking responsibility for our future we search for someone to blame for our own mistakes, that way we don't have feel guilty for failing to repair the damage we do. we have lost the will to serve.

seeing the problems is easy. if you want solutions all you can do is start with yourself. do you have the will to serve? but then, i'm only an aging hippie with delusions on normality, what the hell do i know.:hippy:


somewhere along the line i left the realm of politics and entered the spiritual arena. i don't know why i always seem to end up doing this, but that's what you get when you ask a silly question.