So who (or what) is really in control?

Dinner conversation.

Chas: Mullah Hemorrhoidallah today said, "Blah blah etc etc."

Andy: But President I'm-a-fanatical-sheethead said, "Blah blah etc etc."

Me: Who cares what they said? And who cares what Americans think about what they said. We don't know what's really happening in foreign countries. It's all guess work. Can you remember when all the talking heads were going on about South Africa and getting it all wrong? I spent 7 years writing a book about it in order to show that leaders and politicians were not in control of South Africa and that there is a lot more grey than black and white.

So who (or what) is really in control?

It's not the talking heads. It's mostly the demographics but...

The ordinary people of the world who are "multiplying and being fruitful" and working hard to raise their kids to have a better life than they had have a lot more control than socalled "leaders." "Leaders" are simply spokesmen. The dumb "leaders" have their fifteen minutes of fame. The smart ones tap into the zeitgeist and express what the mass of humanity thinks. The mass of humanity simply keeps "multiplying and being fruitful" and the talking heads either adapt or they don't.

I know that we are evolving into a socialist Brave New World. I used to think that I'd hate living in a ten foot by ten foot cubicle taking soma and watching the feelies all day but even that does not freak me as much as it used to - as long as I'm an alpha - and soma is less destructive to the liver than booze.

And after the Brave New World - finally maybe centuries from now, when people are bored with soma and feelies, the brilliance of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution will be rediscovered and we'll go where no man has gone before. I wish I could say "wanna bet?" but I can't because none of us will be alive at that time.

So call me a pie-eyed optimist but I know that this universe is created out of truth, beauty and goodness and that's what's really in control. Yes, there is ugliness and evil but they won't win because humans are created in the image of God and most of them love truth, beauty and goodness. That's what's really in control. I call it God.

That's why I prefer reading history, philosophy and literature to blogs about gossip and the day to day political nonsense. It's all so temporary in the bigger scheme of things.