Where We Are

The Dow is at 7,100 and change. We are exactly where we are supposed to be. I can't help it if you won't face reality. In August of 2007, I told my daughter the Dow would be at 10,500. I wrote the figure down on a piece of paper, instead of saying it out loud. I still have the paper. At the time, the Dow was at 14,000 or so. The 3,500 point decline was normal business and sub-prime and bank related stupidity. If you add in another 2,000 to 3,000 for a severe recession, we are right where we should be. What? You want to drop all that way all at once? No. You want to take your time. You end up in the same place, but it's better to stop and regret the roses on the way. Some people are still fighting political fights instead of working together. Well, that's what we taught them. They are just acting true to form. Some people are actively sabotaging the government's effort, people on Wall Street who resist Mr. Obama and everything he stands for, and are convinced that they can bring the country to its financial knees, then pick up the remains. Mr. Santelli reports on them, and he is their confidant and unwitting accessory. But that's what we believe in: zero-sum games, winner take all, kill the people that stand in our way and render the others to be only partial men - 4/5 of a man, or 1/2 or 1/3 - whatever devilish rationality we may devise and compromise on. God still wants an end to our wars. God's creation wants an end to our exploitation and violence. Since we resist all efforts, we shall go to rock bottom, so that we may see God face to face, and not through the enigmatic mirror of our distorted world view. All our illusions will be stripped away from us, all our childish beliefs which are little more than conceptual playthings. All debts are to be paid,...unless there is repentance.

Now matter how proudly and importantly we talk, if we have not love, we have nothing; we end up being what we have been for too, too long. The world has sickened of the madness of our loveless greed.