Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, June 20, 2016
PUTTING "WHO" OVER WHAT
PUTTING "WHO" OVER WHAT It mattered more that the work be done, than it be known who did it. This selfless view of labor placed the focus upon product not producer. By virtue of this view the pyramids were built and civilizations founded. This view fell victim to vanity in later ages, inverting the primal paradigm. The focus then had flipped from what was done to who had done it. Man came to adore property, one's own private property, particularly. Focused on private property, "who over what," man's values declined. Mankind sunk to the point that it claimed other humans as property. Rather than just "holding all things common," another religion arose. Acquisitive kinds of religion arose, proclaiming this, but practicing that. Publishing one thing, but secretly propagating its doctrinal converse. It mattered more who was being paid, than what work was being done. "Who over what" in the present age, explains what went wrong and why. Explains what is wrong: it is vanity, vanity, all is vanity: values and laws.