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Messed up vision headed for collision Rhyme and Reason

    • Christianity

Today, America is a messed up vision. A shadow of its former somewhat shadowy self. Because right and wrong is a concept blurred by propaganda. And good and bad are now in the “eye of the beholder.” So, those who run America ( and that’s probably not the politicians) don’t learn from their mistakes. They think they’re wise. But they’re fools.

I talked about this messed up vision years ago.

And I listed 3 major ways humans don’t learn from mistakes.

1. Truth: Those who want to control others cast shadows on the truth. Truth is their mortal enemy. So they have to pound out lies with great resolve until the truth becomes nothing more than a cloudy concept. Truth becomes “whatever you make of it”. Or whatever is “right in their own minds”. Nazi’s believed if you told a “lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually become to believe it”. Do you see that happening all around you today?

2. Morality: This is another area under constant attack by those who want to justify their behavior. When you reduce right and wrong to whatever is “right in their own minds“, you produce a culture where anything goes. Then everything goes…out the window. Who knows where that might lead? You might even find adults killing babies. Well, at least that couldn’t happen here in America…could it?

3. Property: Once people realize they can vote the money away from the wealthy and into their own pockets, then there’s no bottom to that abyss. Politicians run for office (and win) using promises based on redistribution of wealth. It’s not merely wrong. It’s evil, and it destroys lives. But who cares, right? It’s just the way things are. The status quo. I’m gonna get mine as long as the gettin’s good. Does that describe you?

Well, here’s a song about that whole messed up vision.

Nothin’s Sacred Anymore

Take the truth and lock it up, and throw away the key

Winds of change are blowing foul; a dance with destiny

Blur the face of love and sex and say it’s all OK

Tell the child it’s just a choice and melt her soul away

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

Can’t we learn from mistakes when they cut to the core

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

And should we be surprised since we’ve opened that dark, wide door?

Nothin’s sacred anymore

Cast your vote for social growth and then say yes to law

Keep the peace, divide the wealth; the vision Adolph saw

Hedge the bets and ride the fence; the middle road’s secure

Then one day you’re head to head with all you must endure

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

Can’t we learn from mistakes when they cut to the core

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

And should we be surprised since we’ve opened that dark, wide door?

Nothin’s sacred anymore

More space and time”more would be sublime

Someone else can pay”long as I get mine today

Ain’t nothin’ sacred anymore

© 2002 Tony Funderburk

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Today, America is a messed up vision. A shadow of its former somewhat shadowy self. Because right and wrong is a concept blurred by propaganda. And good and bad are now in the “eye of the beholder.” So, those who run America ( and that’s probably not the politicians) don’t learn from their mistakes. They think they’re wise. But they’re fools.

I talked about this messed up vision years ago.

And I listed 3 major ways humans don’t learn from mistakes.

1. Truth: Those who want to control others cast shadows on the truth. Truth is their mortal enemy. So they have to pound out lies with great resolve until the truth becomes nothing more than a cloudy concept. Truth becomes “whatever you make of it”. Or whatever is “right in their own minds”. Nazi’s believed if you told a “lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually become to believe it”. Do you see that happening all around you today?

2. Morality: This is another area under constant attack by those who want to justify their behavior. When you reduce right and wrong to whatever is “right in their own minds“, you produce a culture where anything goes. Then everything goes…out the window. Who knows where that might lead? You might even find adults killing babies. Well, at least that couldn’t happen here in America…could it?

3. Property: Once people realize they can vote the money away from the wealthy and into their own pockets, then there’s no bottom to that abyss. Politicians run for office (and win) using promises based on redistribution of wealth. It’s not merely wrong. It’s evil, and it destroys lives. But who cares, right? It’s just the way things are. The status quo. I’m gonna get mine as long as the gettin’s good. Does that describe you?

Well, here’s a song about that whole messed up vision.

Nothin’s Sacred Anymore

Take the truth and lock it up, and throw away the key

Winds of change are blowing foul; a dance with destiny

Blur the face of love and sex and say it’s all OK

Tell the child it’s just a choice and melt her soul away

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

Can’t we learn from mistakes when they cut to the core

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

And should we be surprised since we’ve opened that dark, wide door?

Nothin’s sacred anymore

Cast your vote for social growth and then say yes to law

Keep the peace, divide the wealth; the vision Adolph saw

Hedge the bets and ride the fence; the middle road’s secure

Then one day you’re head to head with all you must endure

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

Can’t we learn from mistakes when they cut to the core

Nothin’s sacred anymore”

And should we be surprised since we’ve opened that dark, wide door?

Nothin’s sacred anymore

More space and time”more would be sublime

Someone else can pay”long as I get mine today

Ain’t nothin’ sacred anymore

© 2002 Tony Funderburk

Stay tuned,



No-cost, low-cost, and premium ways you can help me spread the Word…

Tell everybody you know to Jump on the Rhyme and Reason Bandwagon

(emails with good stuff for Fa-Ree)

Get my a href="https://www.tonyfunderburk.

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