Justice in America: Invoked but Not Ensured

Even in America There’s No Shield of Justice. Our Justice Must Be Bought or Requisitioned in the Streets.
♣ It’s strange, wrong and irksome that injustice in America bides long, fast, injurious and tragic since alone the Constitution can’t define the grim phenomenon. Nor is the Supreme Court or any other government institution proactive in culling out injustice, exhorting it and banning it expediently. Currently the High Court acts upon no pressing matter without public provocation, without formalized petitions from lobbyists who most often speak for the rich, for corporations and other powerful special interest groups who can best afford the time, expense and craft required to even broach the US Supreme Court after all.
Unfortunately, American jurisprudence is largely a matter of citizen intervention, a very costly, time-consuming, frequently indecorous procedure wherein those most susceptible to injustice itself, average wage-earners, minorities and the poor, are banefully ill-equipped to participate and cast their fates to the wind. So much for individual rights, free speech, true justice and equal opportunity. It’s conspicuously odd that there exists no mandatory, cost-free, citizen-based advocate for justice, one embarked upon a daily crusade to briskly point up, weed out, enlist court ruling on and stamp out injustice on every plane, not merely contain the grave disease but prevent it as a routine part of US government operations. There’s a dire need to maintain American social justice by taking the initiative to do so and not waiting passively as usual for the unfair advantage, the inequitable privilege of the powerful to dig in, take hold, become inexorably ingrained, grow finally immoveable, normalized, distortedly acceptable, deceitfully traditional, all but unrecognizable for the treacherous injustice into which this bane of exclusivity has evolved.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

Conceited Man: Airs of the Divine

Complacency embodies that Godless state of being in which we humans grow inured to all the lies we gladly feed ourselves, the countless cheap, ornate, conceited, vainglorious myths, self-aggrandizing auras and delusions of grandeur so perfectly poised to precipitate a fall.
♣ We humans are a phony race, pompous and shallow. Proud, vain, jealous, self-centered and pretentious, we propagate the myth of having staged our own creation. We’re quick to steal credit for our personal appearance, our intelligence, advantages, our veritable existence. We lie to both our neighbors and ourselves with alacrity, willfully, implicitly partaking in the species-wide conspiracy, not to merely doubt but to flout the very existence of a Creator God. After all, the world over, what human being has never come to contemplate somewhere near the crust of his subconscious mind precisely how God earned His singular destiny, why God and not mankind should claim for all eternity the nonpareil privilege of identifying as God, what a cruel and quite humiliating affront this represents to mere humanity, itself left  to settle for so much less, why we mortals can’t ourselves be counted limitless gods when indeed we’ve been so lucky as to stumble upon the fortune of a Unique God who lets us BE at all.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

Narcissus in Reflection

Pride is just a shadow, humility flesh and bone.
♣ How does man remain so self-absorbed and shallow, so ignorant and flawed yet wax so complacent, so pumped full of pride and such a false pride at that? Of what characteristics are we all that proud when in the vast scheme of things the most accomplished of us know next to nothing, have nothing, make nothing and our untapped potential hangs loosely on the infinite grace of a beneficent unseen force?

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

Greed comes to Gnaw upon the Roots of Democracy

An Ice-Cold, Snowballing Irony
♣ The United States Constitution guarantees equality but no law stymies its obverse. Though capitalism challenges the US Constitution in begetting a grotesque inequality, still, it succeeds in producing that same inequality, succeeding with conspicuous impunity. Our compromised  Democracy supports both the US Constitution and a system of capitalism. In keeping, it has long underwritten an explosive yet enduring dichotomy of beliefs, values, principles, allegiances and social strata risen to a boil. Nowadays it churns in a seething vat of conflagrating energies, merging in a blaze of inextinguishable flame, that fiery and never-ending clash between propitious equality and gross disproportion. The wealthy of America have far outrun the poor at last.
Serving Constitution and capitalism alike, our democracy only guarantees equality in the selfsame stroke it enables inequality. It pits both ends against the middle. Our Constitution compliments democracy even as capitalism serves to undermine it. Democracy and Constitution coexist well. Can antagonists democracy and capitalism coexist without destroying one, the other or both?

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare

Justice keeps the Peace

Justice is Humanity’s Eternal Struggle. Injustice is The Root of All Conflict.
♣ There have always been but two kinds of people in the world, the mature prone to work to establish social justice and the callow bound to lust for advantages that crush it.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awinncingglare.com

FOR LOVE OR MONEY

The Meaning of Christmas
♣ As Christmas nears I must recall it: Love with my heart, not my wallet!

–♦©M.  D. Phillips–awincingglare.com