Holy Cynicism: People are fallen and tend to do evil, even when you can’t justify saying they are evil. But most people recognize evil when they encounter it, provided they are paying attention. Evil is simply a word for injustice, things contrary to God’s Laws for humanity. If you wish to understand what is really going on in the world, exercise some holy cynicism. All this noise about the TSA, backscatter scanners and groping? Regardless what it started out to be, it is now a manufactured crisis to keep us distracted.
A few folks realize Congress is planning to declare the MERS title fraud ex post facto legitimate. That is, they plan to make it a federal law all courts must regard the MERS system as legitimate title custody. Currently, it is not, and courts are increasingly dismissing foreclosures which rely in any way upon MERS as a part of the chain of custody. Along with this, Congress is attempting to require courts to accept the notarized robo-signed foreclosures, and will not be allowed to examine whether the person who signed actually got their facts straight. Those robo-signers aren’t even reading a single document; they simply sign where they are told, several thousand times a day. Some shops even have a mechanical device applying the signature to the paper. This act is apparently being slipped in with other legislation.
There is also that bill to give the FDA total control of our food, including making it possible to outlaw your home garden. This is not making the news.
There are several other major changes going on in the background. Allowing this TSA thing to become so loud should indicate to you, awful as it really is, this is not the worst threat to our lives and safety right now. Something truly nasty is easier to hide when folks get all riled up.
Udpate: I neglected to mention much of what makes noise in the mainstream press is a much deeper danger in our Western culture: The Zero Risk Obsession:
But what should we expect in a society that requires adults to wear bicycle helmets while pedaling in the park, provides disclaimers of liability on TV advertisements, or prints warnings on fast-food coffee cups? The name of the game is zero risk. Not risk mitigation, or accepting responsibility for one’s actions, but risk aversion. It’s a failure to acknowledge that we can’t protect against everything bad that can happen to us, so we must protect against everything we think might — might — be harmful at some point.
It’s living in fear.
