Uncle Moneybags
It’s still officially John Lennon’s birthday (9th October) as I begin to write this. Precise publishing time be damned for a bloody change.
Hearing “Give Peace a Chance” on this, Lennon’s birthday, elucidated for me an idea that’s been hopping around in my head the last few days.
I’ve been thinking to myself that the very most popular prophet-types of modern American consciousness – without facetiousness or blasphemous intention I place Jesus, Buddha, John Lennon among others in the same category of human beings that stood so much for peace and love – weren’t caught up in this little institution known as Capitalism.
Keep it in mind: The religious prophets eschewed material wealth, while rock star idealists (Bono, too) have so much money that not one of their descendants will ever have to worry about paying bills.
Their indifference was reached through different paths, but none of the aforementioned were concerned with money.
So really, for me to imitate – not to say emulate – these loving individuals, which is something I’d like to be able to do in my lifetime, I’d have to place myself in one of two diametrically opposed financial circumstances:
1. Broke-ass poverty
or
2. Ungodly wealth
Since I’ve been very lucky enough never to have experienced poverty, I’d rather never experience it.
So that leaves one option.
Now who says there’s no such thing as free will?
