Frozen heads and Bank bosses
Wasn’t it GB Shaw who said that if other planets are inhabited they must be using earth as their lunatic asylum? Touché!
When you look around (before looking inside) it’s difficult not to take Shaw half-seriously. There are people paying huge sums of money to strangers to have their heads frozen so they can be brought back in the future (if there is a future). Those strangers will have to have their heads frozen so they can come back to unfreeze the heads of the people who made them rich before they had their heads frozen. Get their heads frozen? They should get them examined for radical brain shrinkage!
We have pugnacious atheists who insist that we're nothing but bags of bio-chemicals and they write books trying to persuade all the other bags of bio-chemicals to agree with them that they're nothing but bags of bio-chemicals. 'Mazing!
Big banking bosses lead banks to ruin and paralyse entire nations and take home hundreds of millions of dollars while they’re constructing the ruin and then the people they’ve ruined pay to get the bankers back in business. Talk about frozen heads. Then you turn on the television and banks, with song and dance routines and cheerful adaptations of hit tunes, are advertising that they can make you money better than the other banks that are saying they can make you money better than the first banks. And all the while the ruined rank and file are financing the banks to make their commercials to say their banks will make them money. “Loan us 500 billion pounds Stirling and we maybe we’ll be able to loan you money to take out a mortgage with us.” That’s the news UK people got today (8-10-2008).
Half a lifetime ago Harold McMillan, British Prime Minister, said, “If you want morals go to your clergyman.” Edwin Heath, later Prime Minister, said it’s ridiculous to speak of morals in the political/judicial arena. About ten years ago one of the parties (I can’t remember which) announced they were going to run on a return to moral standards for the family and the people. Two days later they rephrased and the moral theme vanished in a puff of blue smoke. Finally, about a week ago, Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, publicly said that banks should be “moral” and spoke of “ethical” responsibility and the “irresponsible” nature of what has been going on. And will it make a difference? Maybe, until we finally get out of this meltdown and then…
One thing’s for sure. Turn these financial wizards loose long enough and talk of global warming vanishes!
©2004 Jim McGuiggan. All materials are free to be copied and used as long as money is not being made.
Many thanks to brother Ed Healy, for allowing me to post from his website, the abiding word.com.
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