To rule aright is to rule from poverty.
Another way of saying that...we rule aright when we rule not from plenty but from lack. Whoa! There's my blinding flash of the obvious, and I no sooner put the period to the sentence than my reasoning mind is softening it. Not poverty, surely, Lucy whispers...lack, maybe, but not poverty!
If memory serves (and mine seldom does anymore), the majority of the members of our Congress (if not every one) is at least a millionaire. I am not a hater of money, and I am all for capitalism, but I have a strong suspicion that our Congress got on the wrong track when they opened the boundaries to their raises and bennies.
I fear that the only thing that will reverse that decision is the downfall of the House That Greed Built...which, to the builders' mind, was not a matter of greed but the need for personal security. There are few...very, very few...who have voluntarily given up the source of the expansion of their material security for the well-being of others. No matter how noble the cause.
Bottom line...would I? Would you?
Having plenty of lack, or lacking plenty, I could kid myself into believing I'd be noble, but factually every year when Social Security raises are announced, and recipients get none, I am seriously (justifiably!) lacking in noble.
It ain't easy doing spiritual...also known as, judge not lest ye be judged.
Thank you.
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