Yes, God, canvassed Wealth Bondage and raised up a Champion. Barabbas was long gone.

I take my science directly from my immediate superior. When and if sea level rises, she will inform me of any action I might need to take.

A bit low rent for the WB Clientele. But in a recent upscale retreat, I was pleased to see a former priest turned wealth consultant to very rich families, use a Buddhist temple bell to bring us to our authentic self. All it was missing was the donkey's whinny, and kick, to express my true self. Dryden, too, though, had much to reproach himself for, as Poet Laureate. And maybe even Virgil, who I have heard cited at these conferences. (Mentors come from Athena, so too we as godlike advisors enter the precincts of power to preserve Dynasties from their own vice and folly, for 100 years or more. If only DJT, Jr had been properly mentored he might have been more discrete in meeting with the Russian emissaries. Those oligarchs, too, have some rough edges that one trained in Virgil might smooth away, for the right fee.

The ecstasy of partis pris victorious.

I believe there may be two Tom Watson's here.

Would like to do better, but am writing these days into a silence. The party seems to have moved on to Wealth Bondage: Facebook Edition, or Wealth Bondage: Twitter Edition. I am considering Wealth Bondage: The Medium Edition. I need to get back to writing like myself, from behind the masks of Sundry Confident Idiots. Imagine a Twitter Feed written by one Author from behind the Masks of Candidia Cruikshanks, and Company. Not one would ever speak sense, any more than on any Twitter feed, but the gaps between the posts, would speak volumes. Not sure if I have the technology chops to create such an Exercise in Futility in Wealth Bondage for the Public Good.

Catharsis, the world is healed, and we all return to our day jobs.

Lawful looting is not illegal, and to protest it would be a crime.

Neoliberalism or conflagration. Hard choice. I go for neoliberalism, as a slower burn.

I have a link to Wealth and Wisdom Tutors but do not want to send traffic to my competitors. They are doing a lot better than I am anyway, They never send me any business. Why should I send them any?

Even Parker Palmer's group operates as it must inside Wealth Bondage: Aligning Soul and Role. Clarity Circles and Circles of Trust are trademarked. I am sure their is a rationale for that. Wish the Catholic Church had trade marked "The Holy Spirit," it might have saved us from the Reformation. If Simony is the sin of selling holy things, and if the sin against the holy ghost is one sin that cannot be forgiven, it is no wonder to me that you went numb. You couldn't sell the spirit or pretend her other name if Mammon, or that the two are actually one. The spirit died within, for that moment, so she could live for another day. She rightly withdrew. When she returns who knows if might be as gentle breeze, or like a hurricane. We have courted her using as bait wealth and preferment. And guess what, she will not take it, but she will have a lesson for us to learn.

Fail often, fail better. I think one of Samuel Beckett's tramps said that. Tried to hang himself but the rope broke. The human comedy, played as tragic comedy, in two acts, where a third might be expected.

Yes, good if you don't get caught doing it.

When the spirit is hijacked for an agenda not her own, those who know the difference go numb. Takes time for the chill to wear off.

One of the things I am gently exploring is Quaker Circles, patterned on the work of Parker Palmer, at The Center for Courage and Renewal, in which those who have most, can come without being handled, managed or sold, to reconnect, if they can, to that great taproot, or their own inner teacher. Metrics, there will be none.... What can be measured and managed is what is killing us. We have made the means and the management of them into our highest ends. We live to measure and manage, towards any goal however obtuse, however unexamined, however self deluded. We are afraid of silence because it echoes with our own emptiness.

No progress without Dumpsters on every corner.

At least we all have the rights to bear arms.

With so little to offer, it is a wonder you are still allowed to vote.

Quietism, withdrawal, endurance, as the fever burns. A post human world is not beyond God's imagination. I can see why, though, Christine, you may have found Impact Investing and Social Ventures an imperfect vehicle for the holy.

Rights precede the social contract, and the rule of law, or the other way around? The language of "inalienable rights" "endowed by the Creator," indicates that the rights, and human dignity, are not creatures of law. "We the people," though, which people? If you ran Apple, and used Ireland as a tax haven to prevent paying any corporate tax, and had your factories in China, who is "we the people" to whom you owe a debt of fellowship? If you bankrupt people here to enrich people in China, have you done your duty to "We the people"? To the global citizen class the answer is an obvious yes, "All lives have equal value," as Gates Foundation says. "Ability is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not," as Zuckerberg says using his Charitable Initiative to fund a start up training software engineers in Africa, dropping wages in the US. And is this not "Doing good by doing well," for we the people around this flat earth, without regard to national boundaries? Is it any wonder that the dispossessed here, want America to be Great for them again, and want a wall to keep "them" out of "our" country? The global class are startled. My is on who among the advisor class will step forward with an opportune set of "solutions." Militarized police, for-profit prison, colonies on Mars, the purchase of an island, philanthropy, social ventures, public service, training children in humility.... I am looking forward to the next phase of this conversation as those whose blindness exacerbated the problem now propose themselves as "Seers," Mentor, Virtuous and Wise Advisors, and Secular Priests who will lead their chosen people to an everlasting paradise of and for the rich.

The perception is at a 2 of 10, the reality may be far worse than perception yet grasps. The question we have to focus on, though, in Wealth Bondage, is how best to preserve dynastic wealth. What is the least cumbersome concession to the polity that uber-wealth can make to retain its "four capitals," ie, hegemony. Maybe this requires a sounding board or focus group. It would be great if the more thoughtful elements among the dispossessed could use Gifthub comments as a way to convey their need for crumbs to those whose advisors bake the cake.

You need help flattening yourself. Help will be provided.

And Google, Virgin, or Tesla may yet colonize Mars, fort those who can afford the fare.