A sermon from the Great Whales. To the citizens of Atlantis.
Among the humans it is said: Money is power. Power is used to exert ones will, yet these human will not harness themselves to a divine value system, which is explosive--and self destructive, like fire and gasoline.
Yhe real question for humans today is about how to define "values".
Jesus, facing his execution, famously told Pilate "My kingdom is not of this world"..
there's a lot of meaning in that statement.
The physical world invades our consciousness, even us sea creatures most value instinctively to preserve and extend our physical existence.
By extension, those humans with the most money have that same basic survival instinct. They find themselves desperately trying to preserve their personal wealth, their lives, and the system that gives them "power."
Today they want to expand capital markets globally because to do otherwise would guarantee the collapse of their monetary value system.
Yo this end they enlist various sources of power: information, diplomacy, laws, military force, and yes, financial coercion. Their best aspirations they might justify their sometimes ignoble actions, trying to build and extend human material prosperity for the greatest number of humans:
"pragmatic values."
So Gates, Soros, the Koch Brothers, the Rockefellers the Rothschilds all find themselves somewhere between a rock and a hard place. They can't give up their own power. They feel they must use it.."responsibly"-- but this is not inclusive, Millions of less productive and the unfit will need to die, to preserve the lives and fortunes of billions.
They seek the modern Holy Grail, "whom does it serve?"
The "Protestant Work Ethic" still existed when the ruling classes today were growing up in America.
The Secular approach they promoted because it gave them power over religious objections.
But secularism soon reduced human existence to "Materialism".. and in the process, the values humans absorbed were chiefly to preserve and expand theor (Material) American way of life-- They needed to be good producers and consumers.
In the process the former "Protestant work ethic" was soon stripped of its basic values --a spiritual "worth ethic" that was previously the basis of the American society that we sea creatures remember.
Should their "worth" today be defined by a long life, and secure, secular material prosperity?
No, the vacuum created in modern times by this loss of Protestant ( and Catholic ) religious values created a distinct void in their souls . Even in their self-definition, in America. The values placed in their "constitution" and "bill of rights" seemed to no longer fit other "pragmatic" necessities.
The truth is, man is not unique in Creation, being more than just material flesh and blood. Consciousness itself is a "spiritual" interaction with the brain, and with others. Even we sea creatures have it, to some degree.
The "Will" (and values) emerge not from the supposed Marxist "collective biological substrate" but from a spiritual world that is unseen, yet is seen in constant tension between those human souls that "worship the body," and those souls who "worship the creator."
The challenge for humans today is to find, or perhaps rediscover their own "worth ethic" -- How one spends their time and money reveals what that "worth ethic" really is.
One soon finds a limit to happiness in pursuing material possessions, and even the wealthiest among these humans know that.
Everyone wants this Big Lie the present propaganda and financial manipulation of human governments and personal freedoms to end. But the truth is not to be found in the "worth ethic" of materialism.
The Roman Empire, Pilates kingdom, was also doomed to fail in the grand scope of history. Rather it morphed into today's human struggles for more power and control.
But Jesus Kingdom still exists too.
"Find something small to do for others, and do it with a great deal of love" the Great Spirit has said.
Maybe then, real wealth will exist for them again in the spiritual realm, where their "Worth Ethic" really ought to be.. Humans are "made in the Image of God" and need fill that divine void in their souls, once and for all.
--Thus Quoth the Whales.
--Shooting Shark, Governor of Atlantis.
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