The Way Things Are

We have been told that this is the greatest country in the world, that we are the greatest people in the world and that we have the best of everything.  We have the best doctors, the best schools, the best technology, the best engineers and scientists, the biggest companies, the best political system.  We have the biggest and most powerful military in history. We are the richest country in the world, the most developed.  We have been told, countless times, that the Creator of the Universe destined it this way.

We have been told that we deserve the best.  We should be treated like the greatest people on the planet.  We can do whatever we want and to whom we want and take whatever we desire.  We must be treated like royalty and live like kings and queens.

Why then are so many disappointed, frustrated, and angry. It makes no sense that so many of us go hungry, are homeless, are depressed, die by suicide, are on the verge of being penniless, are powerless, have no future, are exposed to violence and crime, and struggle daily for existence.  If we are so smart and powerful and rich why then are we not living like we were promised?  Why are we so powerless?

So we are confused and disillusioned and angry.  Frothing at the mouth angry.  Willing to harm someone angry.  Someone is to blame for this injustice.  It cannot be ourselves, because we are the smartest, the greatest, the richest.  So, for starters we will blame the very people, the very system, that tells us, like a hypnotist, that we are the greatest but at the same time fail to deliver.

Because we are so great and still so powerless we cannot fix it. Someone else must fix it.  Someone who will do whatever it will take to remove those who failed to deliver and who will correct the wrongs committed upon us.  Someone who will do anything and everything to get us what we deserve, right and wrong be damned, whatever the cost, because it is wrong that we are not living like royalty. And there is someone who has done exactly that for himself.  A person who has done anything and everything, will say anything and everything, the system and right and wrong be damned, at any cost, to get what they have.  To live like a king and make their own rules.  Now do you understand why things are the way they are?