The Even Better Good Lie
"Oh yes, I lied, but, well, I didn't know any better and to get over it we might as well all just admit we lie and huddle up and hang in there together. Feel better now?"
This is the essence of what Joel Lovell said yesterday in the Washington Post, and I can't think of many things more putridly reprehensible than this. Well, actually, one of those things worse is this:
That so many get schlurped right into buying the good lie.
So many millions of World inhabitants, who when told about the freedom that comes with Christ and the real coming clean--"a repentance that brings true sorrow"--will just as soon tell you to take a hike so they can continue to snarf down this pap.
Lovell opens with some very transparent truths, namely that all these celebrity financial experts don't really know squat about what to do with money because first and foremost they don't know squat about authentic value. But he concludes with the very typical World blather about toughing it out together as we all accept our collective ignorance and just golly-well trying real hard to get it right all the while soothing each other with our value assessments zig-zagging like an errant rocket through our souls.
Hey.
You guys who have even the teensiest idea that you'd like to get value assessment right.
Hey-- how about asking the One Guy who is Value Assessment?
No no no-- not me.
But yeah!
Christ.
No no-- not the effete one blabbed about in 501c3 churches or any of the straw-man ones concocted by institutionally ordained experts in getting people to stay in the World.
No, the One Who Holds the Universe in His Hands.
Uh, no? Not interested? That's okay. You can blow Him off. That's your choice. What do I have to say about it. You'll continue to lie, continue to enable the best liars, and continue to screech about how it's some big-shot's greed or incompetence when it is much more rational:
Those who've not volitionally appropriated the magnificent benefit Christ freely offers will still have to do human sacrifice, and they will need to do it over and over and over again. What better way to do it than to hack chunks of value off others through dozens of opaque channels in the investment markets?
Well, anyway, I've written my latest webzine's homepage piece about this very thing. Check it out if you have a moment.
This is the essence of what Joel Lovell said yesterday in the Washington Post, and I can't think of many things more putridly reprehensible than this. Well, actually, one of those things worse is this:
That so many get schlurped right into buying the good lie.
So many millions of World inhabitants, who when told about the freedom that comes with Christ and the real coming clean--"a repentance that brings true sorrow"--will just as soon tell you to take a hike so they can continue to snarf down this pap.
Lovell opens with some very transparent truths, namely that all these celebrity financial experts don't really know squat about what to do with money because first and foremost they don't know squat about authentic value. But he concludes with the very typical World blather about toughing it out together as we all accept our collective ignorance and just golly-well trying real hard to get it right all the while soothing each other with our value assessments zig-zagging like an errant rocket through our souls.
Hey.
You guys who have even the teensiest idea that you'd like to get value assessment right.
Hey-- how about asking the One Guy who is Value Assessment?
No no no-- not me.
But yeah!
Christ.
No no-- not the effete one blabbed about in 501c3 churches or any of the straw-man ones concocted by institutionally ordained experts in getting people to stay in the World.
No, the One Who Holds the Universe in His Hands.
Uh, no? Not interested? That's okay. You can blow Him off. That's your choice. What do I have to say about it. You'll continue to lie, continue to enable the best liars, and continue to screech about how it's some big-shot's greed or incompetence when it is much more rational:
Those who've not volitionally appropriated the magnificent benefit Christ freely offers will still have to do human sacrifice, and they will need to do it over and over and over again. What better way to do it than to hack chunks of value off others through dozens of opaque channels in the investment markets?
Well, anyway, I've written my latest webzine's homepage piece about this very thing. Check it out if you have a moment.
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