Homeless Story of J, Part 13

The views expressed are not necessarily those of the author.

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XIII


These are grim times. The United States, on a material binge for fifty years, has finally crashed. In the aftermath, neurotic citizens blame everyone but themselves, and gravitate to charismatic demagogues who provide convenient scapegoats. Meanwhile, wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of an ultra-rich "1% within the 1%."

Universities are labeled “liberal indoctrination centers.” If you challenge the angry uneducated horde and you are "elitist." 

McNamara said, "Rationality can't save us."   This is Psychology of the Majority 101.

But I have come to a revelation.  There is a higher Good. This Good is beyond any particular religion.  It inspires us all, disdaining any fanatic who claims that their own one god is the best.

The Good transcends attempts of supremacists to pin it to their faith. The Divine Good is a wellspring of ambrosia from which all religions draw, before they veer in the wrong direction and become selfish. Exclusionary.

I worship the "Forces of Goodness." I have not found my names for them yet.  For some, it would be Jesus.  For others Grandmother Spider.  Whatever one's situational specifics and culture, what is essential is the manifestation of the Good, regardless of name.

While greed, through increasing technology, grasps and corrupts the planet, we individuals can still steer an ethical course. In times of bigotry and effigy, the Good is still there, a universal in the way of things.  The nature of this universe, of natural law, makes the concept of the Good an inevitable presence.

I pray to the Forces of Goodness.  And I hope-hopehopehope--they guide my actions.

Even if we are all corrupted--all vampires and werewolves--we can still do Good acts.  We can be better, through these acts--and that makes a difference.

Remember, Homeless J knows one thing for sure:

We live in a Purgatory. This planet is a place where the ethical quality of our actions strongly affects our ultimate destination--which is greater than any of us knows.

In this way, even in the darkest night, the Good watches over us.  Offering direction in this Purgatory.

J


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