Our Compartmentalives

What do you do if you want to look, or at least feel, intelligent? Apparently, you document and catalog every action you take. Or at least that has been our response. Mankind left to himself is the opposite of wisdom. Our pursuit of intelligence, wisdom and success couldn't be more far off. In our effort to appear wise, we choose the most foolish, down-right illogical, approach to almost every scenario. What do we do with the human mind and heart that need our help? We try to fit it into some program. What do we do with the environment and nature when it requires attention? We try to further control it with our boundaries. What do we do with anything in our existence that is a problem? Do we get rid of it? No, that's too easy, too logical. We actually end up protecting it by trying to harness it with our programs and boundaries. We are too proud and arrogant to declare defeat, to humble ourselves and say, "yes, in fact, we made a mistake." In our drive to tolerate everything, we have done damage to the important things. We thought we could compartmentalize our lives by taking what's bad and giving it its own land to graze on. But we cannot keep it penned up; it spills over into society; we try to write it off as "isolated incidents," and with our ADD and delirium we do a good job of deceiving ourselves, but the "isolated incidents" are increasing. Our society thought that we could compartmentalize our sin, giving sin its own area to exist in the shadows, allowing ourselves to co-exist, but we were dead wrong. Las Vegas' slogan epitomizes our society's wishful thinking, that we can contain our sin, that we can harness it, that we can control it. How foolish are we? How blind are we? What goes on in one corner of our lives, does not stay hidden. It affects all of us; it affects all of society. Come on, even Newton recognized this in his third law: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. We can no more contain the effects of sin and corruption than New Orleans' levees could contain the floodwaters of a mighty hurricane. "What goes on here, does NOT stay here."