More on Hope and Glory

The currency of Youth is Glory. Hope is the dynamo it runs.
Hope builds the future and, as a by-product, creates more Glory.

Youth has an endless supply of Glory; Glory actually does "grow on trees". The supply never stops as long as Parents Love their children, because Glory is like the moon and Love is like the sun: Glory is a reflection of Love.

When Glory turns into Money and Power and Celebrity, it is no longer infinite, but rather a scarce resource that people then fight over. We have seen it happen when love and glory turns into a pay-off, a power game, and unhealthy adulation.
The scarcity of these new currencies allow the dynamo of Hope to run down.
The new Economy of Scarcity enables the worst aspects of Compulsion; whereas hitherto Glory and Love were an Intimate Persuasion, Compulsion creates a Caste system of Fear: rich versus poor, powerful versus the weak, and celebrity versus the mass of people who aspire to the idol-nature of the celebrities they view, yet are always coming up short.

If Glory and Love could remain free, I think we would be better off, for it is the Love of Money that is the root of all evil, not Money itself. Same thing with Power and Celebrity.

Even if we disagree, if we both maintain our respect for each other, we maintain a certain amount of Glory, and prevent ourselves from tarnishing its glow by assassinating each other's character.
We must never diminish our own Glory, as well as that of other people. There is more than enough Glory to go around: it is endless.

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ps.
this is more a note to myself about things to develop further.
it is no surprise that one of my favourite films is "Hope and Glory" which, believe it or not, I have an indelible memory of having seen in the back of a dark, small East Wapping movie house during WW II... all of which is pure nonsense.