May 3, 2013 – Proverbs 21:29 – 22

22:2 – We all have common bonds as humans, but the world constantly struggles with putting certain people into classes.  We think that in the US this doesn’t happen, but is that really true.  I haven’t seen or read the Great Gatsby, but I have read that it is focused on this idea that there are classes and for someone to jump into one class from another is extremely difficult.  There is just an attitude that if you have money, you are better than people that don’t.  I don’t know how far this will go, but the gap between the richest and the rest is not shrinking but growing and the strategies of our government appear to be encouraging this.  The middle class is shrinking and being pushed more and more into the basement while those with money are the ones that are benefiting from the “recovery” we are experiencing.  There are classes in the US, whether we want to say it or not.  There is a group that has power, wants power, and will keep power as long as they can and there are those, most of us, that will be held down by any means necessary.  There are exceptions, sure, but not too many.  I think the most frightening fact of it all is not that classes exist but that so many Americans believe, because it is engrained in us, that they do not and we are all on an even playing field.  That is simply naïve.