While plucking the errant hairs from my chin this morning in the weak gray light that had managed to slump through my bedroom window, I realized something.
We are living in the most hideously odd age.
If you would take your cues from the television producers, the most pressing thing that should be on our minds is whether or not the bimbo with the plastic boobs is going to upchuck when she tries to drink the maggot milkshake on Fear Factor.
If you would take your cues from Newsweek, you would be trying to cover your liberal ass after printing a bald faced lie that cost many human lives.
If you would take your cues from radical Islamists, the mere suggestion that some pages of the koran might have been treated without the proper respect, then this gives you permission to go ape shit and injure your fellow radical Islamists.
But this should not be TOO surprising since on the other hand, these same sensitive souls think it is okay to saw the head off an American because he is not one of the "faithful". Whatever the hell that means.
If you would take your cues from academia, we should all rise up and give all our money to the government, where it will be distributed "fairly" and as the all knowing, insatiable, politburo sees fit.
If you would take your cues from the real estate agents in our neck of the woods, what you need to do it sell your perfectly good house right away and get a bigger one, because by god you deserve to live like a king... and give them a tidy sum while you're at it.
If you would take your cues from Wall Street, you wouldwork your fanny off to make as much money as possible and hand it over to them to play with.
However.
Amid all this chatter and craziness, in mid-stride this morning, while getting ready for the day, I thought I could hear the footsteps of the Moshiach.
The implications of this one idea, put everything else in the shade.
What if....?
We are living in the most hideously odd age.
If you would take your cues from the television producers, the most pressing thing that should be on our minds is whether or not the bimbo with the plastic boobs is going to upchuck when she tries to drink the maggot milkshake on Fear Factor.
If you would take your cues from Newsweek, you would be trying to cover your liberal ass after printing a bald faced lie that cost many human lives.
If you would take your cues from radical Islamists, the mere suggestion that some pages of the koran might have been treated without the proper respect, then this gives you permission to go ape shit and injure your fellow radical Islamists.
But this should not be TOO surprising since on the other hand, these same sensitive souls think it is okay to saw the head off an American because he is not one of the "faithful". Whatever the hell that means.
If you would take your cues from academia, we should all rise up and give all our money to the government, where it will be distributed "fairly" and as the all knowing, insatiable, politburo sees fit.
If you would take your cues from the real estate agents in our neck of the woods, what you need to do it sell your perfectly good house right away and get a bigger one, because by god you deserve to live like a king... and give them a tidy sum while you're at it.
If you would take your cues from Wall Street, you wouldwork your fanny off to make as much money as possible and hand it over to them to play with.
However.
Amid all this chatter and craziness, in mid-stride this morning, while getting ready for the day, I thought I could hear the footsteps of the Moshiach.
The implications of this one idea, put everything else in the shade.
What if....?