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Rejoin the rat race<\/span>
\nAnd all that chasten<\/span>
\nDaring to make<\/span>
\nA rodent in the machine<\/span>
\nWhich is all the rage<\/span>
\nThe bounty on your ahead<\/span>
\nA golden hamster wheel<\/span>
\nRetard after 50 years<\/span>
\nLeft dumb<\/span>
\nLips pursed<\/span>
\nFor so many years<\/span>
\nMetering out your daily pillage<\/span>
\nFrom shallow pools<\/span>
\nHaving waded for your due appointments<\/span>
\nNot with standing<\/span>
\nThat grim reaper having<\/span>
\nSacrificed so much<\/span>
\nFor what<\/span>
\nSpoils<\/span>
\nAs prophet in titles<\/span>
\nEpitaphs<\/span>
\nRidden in stone<\/span>
\nForcing loved ones loanly<\/span>
\nTo visit what you once were<\/span>
\nSuckling on memories<\/span>
\nDreams stoned<\/span>
\nStarving<\/span>
\nTo full<\/span>
\nFill awe that is hollowed <\/span>
\nHaving<\/span>
\nLived once<\/span>
\nNow never more knew<\/span>
\nDaze passed<\/span>
\nAnd by what means recaptured<\/span>
\nHow sew frayed<\/span>
\nOf day’s passion<\/span>
\nAnd once with<\/span>
\nIn is capable rejoinder<\/span>
\nTo finish this sentience<\/span>
\nAnd not mirror animation<\/span>
\nA resounding echo<\/span>
\nNo longer revere berating<\/span>
\nIn empty chambers<\/span>
\nWanton listless solutions<\/span>
\nHaving dropped the bawl<\/span>
\nBored stiff of what lame meant<\/span>
\nDrawling on passed experience<\/span>
\nYakking on a bout<\/span>
\nScaling steep mountains<\/span>
\nOut of mole hills<\/span>
\nTrying<\/span>
\nTo get your goat and make you want to yacht<\/span>
\nAnd in the end unmoved<\/span>
\nBuy the blubbering of beached wails<\/span>
\nStrewn by brown shirts and matching knows<\/span>
\nMuted lives<\/span>
\nSullen everything<\/span>
\nYou can possibly think<\/span>
\nTrading marks<\/span>
\nAnd in proprietary secrets <\/span>
\nMay clinch some laconic inc.<\/span>
\nBe rift of checks and balances<\/span>
\nAnd should you withdraw<\/span>
\nThe hush of money<\/span>
\nPrepare for it getting even<\/span>
\nSilencer<\/span>
\nYet before your time<\/span>
\nSing<\/span>
\nLike just<\/span>
\nAnother grammy<\/span>
\nInexplicably quite<\/span>
\nNever herd again<\/span>
\nA spoke in word<\/span>
\nUnburden some<\/span>
\nTo pronounce<\/span>
\nIn that speakeasy of freedom<\/span>
\nDrunk with poise in abating<\/span>
\nFrom a salutary utter<\/span>
\nAfter which you could hear a heart murmur<\/span>
\nThat could with stand a beating:<\/span>
\nYou can have your bigger cages<\/span>
\nAnd longer chains<\/span>
\nBe damned the shareholder value<\/span>
\nof Cages and Chains, Inc.<\/span>
\nI will jump from the ledger<\/span>
\nEven if you won’t<\/span>
\nSearching for the perfect pitch<\/span>
\nSurpassing everlusting sirens<\/span>
\nTill a gentler rock<\/span>
\nFinding my voice<\/span>
\nIn a free Fall<\/span>
\nFallowing a summer<\/span>
\nFueled by that eternal spring<\/span>
\nHoping for more than allege<\/span>
\nAnd giving know pause<\/span>
\nTo winters and losers<\/span>
\nSharing the good news<\/span>
\nFreely<\/span>
\nNever put out<\/span>
\nTo pastor<\/span><\/p>\n

This poem is a reflection on the rat race of state-of-the-art employment, where even winning the rat race probably signifies that you are just a rat more than anything else.\u00a0 Even though the productivity evangelists tout great success, the more than tripling of material wealth during my lifespan, has done little net good (mostly trapped people in nets) for workers.\u00a0 With the wealth of experience and history, it doesn’t take a prophet to understand that ever-growing profits spells a cancerous existence in America.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, since I quit my “regular” or “real” job, almost a decade ago, I’ve been able to live on less than what the average American would make with unemployment benefits (though I didn’t receive unemployment benefits because I quit).\u00a0 I haven’t received food stamps or other government “welfare” assistance.\u00a0 I have not been a very successful taker, with my frugal leanings and pride in autonomy.\u00a0 Though Republicans have tried hard in Ohio, under Obamacare, I may not be able to keep my uninsurance, ending a decade without health insurance.<\/p>\n

At best, it seems that this increased material wealth has little to do with increased happiness.\u00a0 In fact, Americans work more hours and are no more happy.\u00a0 Even having to point out that working more hours doesn’t make you happier is perhaps the best illustration that the productivity police can quite effectively rely on self-enforcement!\u00a0 Our minds have been so effectively colonized that other options seem barely even thinkable.\u00a0 The notion that your life can actually be profoundly better living with less is heretical in capitalistic America — if such a crazy notion were even given the time of day!<\/p>\n

It seems that Western civilization has reached a point in its existence, where workers are functionally illiterate in life, meaning that they cannot adequately articulate and effectively navigate life outside of money\/wealth as their measure of value.\u00a0 Newsflash potential illiterates: money isn’t everything!\u00a0 As the saying goes: you can’t buy love.\u00a0 And, if you can’t tell the difference between love and a comfortable home with a trophy wife, then you might be an illiterate!\u00a0 Worse yet, most workplaces are better characterized as places where we sell ourselves than places where we come together for our mutual betterment.\u00a0 And if you can’t tell the difference between love and selling ourselves, then you are definitely an illiterate!<\/p>\n

In the great exchange debate of values, circulates the notion that time is money.\u00a0 Capitalists have effectively dominated this debate, demanding perpetual focus on the centrality of money.\u00a0 Now, you may be able to exchange your time for money.\u00a0 However, money can’t really buy time, otherwise the rich would live forever!\u00a0 More to the point, money can’t buy life.\u00a0 Money may be able to carve out more “leisure” time — that time when you are not selling yourself — or even buy some edge of health compared to others, and perhaps increasing your lifespan.\u00a0 However, no matter how effectively we manipulate our material environment, through the proxy of money, this, at best, only offers the opportunity to live, not life itself.\u00a0 Our time represents this opportunity for living.\u00a0 While money has an interplay with how we experience our time, the very quality of our life, it is subordinate to time.\u00a0 In youthful, or just plain oblivious, denial of our limited time, i.e., eventual death, we may convince ourselves that we have more time than money.\u00a0 This perception influences our judgments about the time-money exchange rate.\u00a0 I suspect that the best way to reflect on this is to ask yourself which is better: to have more money than time? or, to have more time than money?\u00a0 In the end, ultimately, time will win this debate.\u00a0 Nonetheless, many, if not most people waste a lot of time before realizing this, that time is more important than money.<\/p>\n

Of course, living with a lot of money or very little money may confound this realization that time is more important than money; the rich thinking that their time is founded on money because they have it, and the poor thinking that their time is dependent on money because they have very little.\u00a0 This is one aspect of the destructive reality of huge income inequalities, of greed and poverty.\u00a0 This confounding of reality serves well neither the rich or the poor.\u00a0 Wealth and poverty are conjoined twins, seemingly destined to believe that their life is best served by the machinations of material existence, to the deficit of a more full and complete life.\u00a0 Both excess and lack, especially when conjoined, can lead to fearful and alienating lives.\u00a0 The rich can become disconnected, unempathetic with lack, even paranoid of losing their excess (sic).\u00a0 The poor can become discouraged and desperate, lacking in the face of plenty.<\/p>\n

The apostle John offered the simplest, though apparently quite difficult, solution to the conjoined twin fates of excess and lack, by proclaiming: “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same” (Luke 3:11).\u00a0 This would put a lot of liberal think tanks out of business.\u00a0 This would put a lot of conservative think tanks out of business.\u00a0 In the end, thinking about such things, particularly if you are the well-clothed one with a full belly, does little to address our lack, our common fate: poverty.\u00a0 Of course, this is America, so there is more than one brand of poverty: material or spiritual.\u00a0 For the particularly unfortunate, you can have both brands.\u00a0 Fortunately, God has the preferential option for the poor<\/a>, the central tenet of liberation theology, founded by Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The preferential option for the poor is much more than a way of showing our concern about poverty and the establishment of justice. At its very heart, it contains a spiritual, mystical element, an experience of gratuitousness that gives it depth and fruitfulness. This is not to deny the social concern expressed in this solidarity, the rejection of injustice and oppression that it implies, but to see that in the last resort it is anchored in our faith in the God of Jesus Christ. It is therefore not surprising that this option has been adorned by the martyr’s witness of so many, as it has by the daily generous self-sacrifice of so many more who by coming close to the poor set foot on the path to holiness.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The preferential option for the poor is a perspective God’s grace giving special favor to the poor.\u00a0 The way that God has created reality actually favors the poor more than the rich.\u00a0 This doesn’t glorify material poverty, but it recognizes that the experiences of poverty more directly connect us and open us up to the deep importance of mutual aid and genuine, caring relationships.\u00a0 The poor’s very survival depends on it.\u00a0 The rich are insulated from this palpable, ever-present reality of the poor.\u00a0 The rich can “afford” to make the mistake of buying their way out of this deeper and more difficult (yet rewarding) way of being.\u00a0 The rich are more easily fooled into thinking that they don’t need others.\u00a0 The injustice maintained by the rich is that as conjoined twins, the rich twin foolishly acts as if they can do whatever they want without the other, even when faced with the heart-wrenching realities of material poverty wracking his world.\u00a0 Such heartlessness is a failure at intimacy with other human beings and reality writ large.\u00a0 Perhaps a better formulation of a universal constant of metaphysics for the betterment of humankind would be the directly inversely proportional relationship of material and spiritual poverty.\u00a0 Of course, this would turn capitalism, and its reliance on endless greed and profit, upside down, or more aptly, right side up!\u00a0 Skeptics might ask if it is possible for the rich to spiritually prosper.\u00a0 This is an ancient question:<\/p>\n

“Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’\u201d<\/em> (Matthew 19: 23-24)<\/p>\n

I love the common interpretation of this passage as a reference to a gate into Jerusalem called “the eye of the needle” that was opened a night after the main gate was closed, and this gate was so small that the camel (the rich) would have to unload all of their baggage and crawl through on their knees.\u00a0 Yep, Jesus was one of the greatest poets I ever metaphor!<\/p>\n

May you live into the reality that spiritual wealth is more directly accessed with less rather than more material wealth.<\/p>\n

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