BIG”FAT “HYPOCRISY
Friday, September 23, 2011
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Monetary obesity--non-circulating, entropic wealth--is akin
to stored, white fatty tissue on the human body!
While human corpulence is well documented and usually derided,
monetary opulence is not. Instead, such
wasted, non-utilized economic capacity is praised, envied and coveted! Why is this?
Is one any better than the
other? Weight loss programs for personal fat assail the airwaves and print media
in 24-hour cycles. Nothing of the sort,
however, troubles monetary fat’s life of ease, idleness, and indolence.
Society would be better served—indeed enriched—by getting the
monetarily fat to disgorge some of that money, than in getting the personally
fat to lose some of that weight. Wealth
redistribution benefits many. Losing excess
pounds only benefits the few weight-losers themselves.
Maybe these fat-based sentiments are displaced. Then again,
maybe they are not. Either way the contrasting public perceptions and
approaches to this weighty issue strikes me as a big fat hypocrisy!
