Baltimore riots

Everybody seems to want to weigh in on what the trouble is here.

The trouble in Baltimore is like the trouble all over Western society.   At the very least, the very least, the trouble is that the government is too large, and assumes too much authority over too many aspects of our lives.  The solution that will be offered in Baltimore will be the same one that is making the society sick in the first place--- more and more government.

I note also that the Supreme Court is leaning toward same sex marriage.  This is supposedly a conservative court.  If it were truly conservative, it would over rule same sex marriage and allow it to be decided at the local level.  If it is decided in favor of same sex marriage, it would be violating the same principle as the abortion ruling.  Not only would the Court be redefining morality, and thus entering upon an area that is forbidden to it, but it is taking over a local decision and nationalizing it without cause.  There is no cause to be doing this.  Instead, the Court may do exactly the wrong thing, as all of our so called leaders keep doing exactly the wrong thing time after time.

I don't think anyone really understands what's going on here.  If I may offer my theory?  My theory is that everything has been commercialized to the point in which nobody does anything without a monetary gain in mind.  Nobody does anything for the love of it.  Nobody will do a thing unless they get a personal gain from it.  Call it a type of selfishness.  They will not do the right thing because in order to do the right thing, it will mean that they will have to give up some advantage that they just can't live without, or so they think.

Nobody will serve the community just for the love of it.  Nobody will sacrifice their interests for the good of the community, for the sole reason that they love their community.  Nope.  If they don't get paid, they won't be doing it.  The community can go to hell for all they care.  So, it goes to hell and everybody wonders why.

My analysis isn't even mine.  It comes from the Gospel of John.  Jesus said that the sheep will follow the Good Shepherd and no other.  If it is a hired man, he will abandon the sheep when the wolf comes, because the hired man cares nothing for the sheep.  The Good Shepherd will gives his life for his sheep and the sheep will follow him and nobody else.  Otherwise, the sheep will scatter.  So it has come to us.  The sheep have scattered because there are no Good Shepherds anymore.