I have always been a fan of the free market, rather than government pumping money into a failing business. Some of the strange things that happen are how the government gives over $300 million dollars to the tobacco farming industry, due to dropping sales and also spends over half a billion on ad campaigns to stop smoking. That’s off topic. I have noticed that people tend to think that life is at its best, right now, whenever something is stable, that is the best it can ever be, leave it at that. When something fails, we have to come up with something better to make it succeed or come up with something completely new. The trouble with trying to maintain life as it is, is this: it limits what you can do. If this is the best we can be, then we have no desire to obtain anything greater, we have no desire to learn. Notice how a person who succeeds is usually described as passionate? That person isn’t doing something solely for the purpose of doing something. Not because a person has a passion for accounting, but rather there is something deeper that drives him. What he is doing flows from who he is. That is why he learns more, that is why he does his job constantly improves and does his job better than he did before. It’s not what we do, but who we are.

Culture is religion externalized. The cultural failure that we are, this isn’t the other persons fault, it is our own. It is the churches fault. It is our fault. It is my fault. The luke warmness that we have, that isn’t convincing, probably since we can barely convince ourself that the gospel is real. Sincerity shines through. Our half hearted motives shines through even more, since not only do they not see sincerity, but they also see how little we care. It is not what you’re doing, but who you are.