So When Will It End?
Today's Meet the Press political roundtable featured some discussion about the Walter Reed Hospital story, the one about the deplorable conditions at the VA facility caring for wounded service personnel. The reporter who broke the story in the Washington Post, Dana Priest, was one of the commentators, and she made this remark (paraphrased):
"The problems won't end, even with all the commissions formed and promises made to fix it."
The discussion continued in this skeptical vain, the consideration that no matter what is done, our country's fallen will still not be fully cared for.
After Priest made her comment, I thought of a very simple question.
"When will it end?"
They won't have any satisfactory answer unless it makes them look like they are the bright shining knights of rescue-- indeed there is no doubt Priest is now seen as a kind of Messiah-figure for our gallant men and women in uniform, used and abused by the nefarious Bush empire. All the eager sycophancy on Meet the Press confirmed that all the media toadies want to be on this bandwagon:
As long as people are disadvantaged, victimized, and exploited then I have a job criticizing the powers-that-be.
The horror of this reality is that they have no real interest in seeing that these people are out of their predicament, and the Priest comment confirms this truth. I just can't deny that I picture Priest (and I don't pick on her necessarily, you could put any of these people in her place) at a cocktail party basking in the glory of her codependent mantle comforted in the knowledge that many people out there wallowing in their pain and destitution brings droves of Catholicists from all around seeking her vast wisdom and paying the big bucks for it.
What is the meaningful truth that Priest et al will never share-- much more as dutiful servants of Cain's legacy will never even know?
It is that except in uncreated light, darkness can never be drowned. (Borrowed from C.S. Lewis)
So yes! What Priest and the Cain gang said is true-- it will never end,
Unless they find That Light.
Thing is, That Light is over there, way over there, in the Kingdom.
This here's the World. Where good fine service personnel are exploited, and where smart slick pundits spout about how much they're for them but really just keep them stuck in their hell.
That Light, by the way, He's God, just so you know. And as God, if you want, He'll get you to the Kingdom way way way over there far from the World, in a nanosecond if you want.
A nanosecond.
But, um, yeah, takes a bit longer if you want to take World stuff with you.
Who's That Light? Some thoughts about Him are here. Some thought about the World are here, too.
"The problems won't end, even with all the commissions formed and promises made to fix it."
The discussion continued in this skeptical vain, the consideration that no matter what is done, our country's fallen will still not be fully cared for.
After Priest made her comment, I thought of a very simple question.
"When will it end?"
They won't have any satisfactory answer unless it makes them look like they are the bright shining knights of rescue-- indeed there is no doubt Priest is now seen as a kind of Messiah-figure for our gallant men and women in uniform, used and abused by the nefarious Bush empire. All the eager sycophancy on Meet the Press confirmed that all the media toadies want to be on this bandwagon:
As long as people are disadvantaged, victimized, and exploited then I have a job criticizing the powers-that-be.
The horror of this reality is that they have no real interest in seeing that these people are out of their predicament, and the Priest comment confirms this truth. I just can't deny that I picture Priest (and I don't pick on her necessarily, you could put any of these people in her place) at a cocktail party basking in the glory of her codependent mantle comforted in the knowledge that many people out there wallowing in their pain and destitution brings droves of Catholicists from all around seeking her vast wisdom and paying the big bucks for it.
What is the meaningful truth that Priest et al will never share-- much more as dutiful servants of Cain's legacy will never even know?
It is that except in uncreated light, darkness can never be drowned. (Borrowed from C.S. Lewis)
So yes! What Priest and the Cain gang said is true-- it will never end,
Unless they find That Light.
Thing is, That Light is over there, way over there, in the Kingdom.
This here's the World. Where good fine service personnel are exploited, and where smart slick pundits spout about how much they're for them but really just keep them stuck in their hell.
That Light, by the way, He's God, just so you know. And as God, if you want, He'll get you to the Kingdom way way way over there far from the World, in a nanosecond if you want.
A nanosecond.
But, um, yeah, takes a bit longer if you want to take World stuff with you.
Who's That Light? Some thoughts about Him are here. Some thought about the World are here, too.
Comments
Post a Comment