Sarcasm Alley

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
And thus so shall we crash, despite all the laughable protestations that we are based on Judeo-Christian values (Jesus preached greed when?). The foundation of this society is built one thing: the Alley. Who among us does not fear to end up here? Many have committed suicide rather than face such a fate. Not sure I can argue with that decision. It is this fear that drives you to your slave labor and to accept all indignities. It is this fear that puts us at each other throats for survival. It is this fear that rots our souls.

The Alley has also become the source of our pop culture as freedom has evaporated from structured society. You won't hear the tender, soulful songs of the 70s. It's all hard rap sounds now. Nobody feels safe to express vulnerability. Oh, we make stuff that sounds vulnerable and seems tender, but it's just a mockery of the real thing. Of something that has died. These should be the times of sack cloths and ashes to regain our soul.

The basis for power is insanity. At some point we got so twisted that insanity became the norm and sanity ridiculed. And despite all the self-praise we heap upon ourselves today, this condition still holds true. "If I can't have what I want, I'm going to kill someone." Think about it. Somebody first had to make that decision to threaten with murder. Then the murder became organized into war and killing became a way of life. Now it's considered crazy not to kill.

How many of you can imagine taking a knife and sticking it into another human being? Not many can and yet it's considered irresponsible if one cannot. Why? Because the human race believes threats are The Way. The road to paradise, safety and freedom is paved with blackmail. We point to ourselves as a shining example. We have riches, power and freedom. But so have had many nations in history - for a time. But there is one fatal fundamental flaw to a world that hopes to terrorize itself to success.

It's inhuman. We are human. In order for us to survive, all things inhuman must be eliminated. Duh. So we can blame all our problems on the terrorists or economics or literally the storms that rain fury upon us, but those things were going to happen anyway.