The Lord moves in mysterious ways, and one of them is leaving humans in charge. Indeed, voting in an election is rather like choosing what type of Biblical plague you wish to suffer from; and even then the choice has been reduced from ten to two: lice or locusts, take your pick. My text today is drawn from the first book of Erewhon, chapter zero, verse none, wherein the citizen wonders what the point of the Federal Constitution was, since most of his Presidential candidates somehow manage to degrade the reputation of even the worst frat house in the electoral college:
"Venality of venalities, saith the Political Pundit, venality of venalities; all is venality.
What profit hath a citizen of all his voting which he taketh under the sun?
One election campaign passeth away, and another election campaign cometh: but the government abideth for ever.
The fool also ariseth, and the fool goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
The hot air goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north;
it whirleth about continually, and the hot air returneth again
according to political circuits.
All the opinions run into the record; yet the record is not full: unto
the place from whence the bad ideas come, thither they return again.
All things are full of lobbyists; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is
done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the
sun except Mitt Romney's latest opinion on abortion.
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is sense? it hath been already exposed as nonsense, which was before us.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after."
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