Your World
Today,
I want to ask you a question, a question which, before you answer, I would like
for you to give very much thought, very deep consideration. Set aside the views
of any political party which you may support and look from all the angles.
Consider only your particular personal values, beliefs, and desires for your
life and the lives of others; and, most importantly, be honest with yourself.
In addition, don’t tell me your answer. Just answer to yourself. My question
is: Whether you belong to the “top one percent” of our society, the most
powerful and wealthy, or to the “lower ninety-nine percent” notwithstanding,
what kind of world is it in which you really wish to live?
I am compelled to
believe you, yourself, want to live a long, happy, healthy, successful, and
prosperous life with equal opportunity for all, wishing the same for your
children and extended family. Given that is true, wouldn’t you, also, want the
same for your fellow-man and for your country? Would you not, also, want that same
“good life” for your world, the whole world in which you live and raise your
family? Would you, on the other hand, be happy or content in a nation or
society where your neighbors were hungry, homeless, crime was rampant, and war
and terror is all around us? Given the current reality of such, are you, therefore,
happy today?
Is not a world
and/or nation in which business, government, money, and power serves the people,
as opposed to the people serving them, preferable?
I know. I said I
wanted to ask a question. There I go again.
Ronald Miller
mtss86@comcast.net
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