Everyone loves a sale, do they not? The chance for a bargain? The chance to pull something over on another person, or persons, be it friend or enemy. It seems to be an innate quality or lack thereof within humankind. Always to look for a bargain and then waved triumphantly when we think we actually secured that bargain. Then when we get home and take a closer look and evaluation at our bargain, out of the heat of the fray, we wonder. Why did we buy this? Why did we think that this is such a bargain that we had to have it? That which we were seeking.
In the heat of the battle for that bargain, we forgot that ancient piece of wisdom. That one gets what one pays for. That the lowest price is not necessarily the best price and at times, most often, your "bargain” gets behind you. It nips at you, bites you hard on the rear. And all the while you are shouting in pain. Cursing yourself for going for the cheapest in so many ways. You look around and see that you indeed got what you paid for.
Buy cheap, get cheap. In the buying of that cheap we make compromises. We decide we don't need quality. We decide we don't need character traits of honor. faith, of public service, of sacrificing one's own needs so that the public benefits. One who devotes himself/herself to that public service and accepts that as a great honor. Perhaps not cheap, as honorable traits and action can be costly. However, we must remember that cheap disappears, with nothing left to speak of as a bargain. That initial bargain will cost much.
Cheap is not secure. Cheap is not honorable. And if we persist in choosing. "cheap” people, we will, certainly reap the "benefits". Oh, yes, there will be advancement along with huge transfers of monies from public to private. We will incur debts of longstanding life of to rack up interest at unseemly, usurious cost. We certainly will advance - ever deeper into the morass of cheapness left behind when our "cheap" and ignorant 'leaders' are far away, leaving us to deal with the detritus left behind by our 'cheap bargains'. Our backs will bow as we encounter the addons that invariably come with the lowest price bargains.
So, who are the bargains of the moment? The victims of these bargains, we know. All we can need do on that line is find the nearest mirror and see one of the biggest victims. Our cheapest bargains, from all the cheap material on the sale table have cost us dearly. First, we lost our ability to define and understand words properly. To progress is not to regress. To advance is not to go backwards. You can use any term you want, any misnomer that you gin up, but what is clear is clear. The intentions of these bargains are extremely clear to those who will open their eyes and see. Not for those who close their eyes willingly. Not wishing to see the truth. Only grabbing hold on those false promises of cheap government. Of cheap lives. Of cheap education. Of cheap lives based on faulty flimsy premises. Guaranteed to collapse under the feet of those in the world who misunderstood the final costs of cheap. Not so cheap in the long run to set aside morality and honor and justice and honesty. and equality.
Not so cheap after all, is it?
The costs of those original bargains continue to rise. The bad effects fall upon the nation and the world. Before the quality goods find their way onto the private markets and supportive public markets, we will have rough slogging ahead. We are in a season of short supply, its links shattering and separating. The supply chain of bright and intelligent people, people who care for others is challenged at present, to say the least. People who know the honor of public service, who seek not honor for themselves but rather for true advancement for their people, are mostly out of stock.
At present we have a large stock at wholesale prices, of the unqualified who presented themselves to us as bargains. Cheap to us. In false glory and treacherous rhetoric, dressing themselves in fancy clothing as did the Emperor - who wore no clothes at all, yet had managed to set the prime example of the bargains and the fallacy of the bargaining and misplacing clear thought when it comes to governing for the people of the world, not for a small group of deal makers and deal breakers, all at cost to the public, but certainly quite substantial for them.
We, the people of the world, must see through the false facade of fancy clothing and garish decorations round the bargains, for they hide the truth, the cost of such bargains. Presented as promises to the people, the clothes will fade and fall apart, the garishness of the decorations will fade away, and their falsehoods will emerge, as we finally begin to comprehend the truth there before us. The promises will never have gotten off the ground nor made its way to the public market. Their once bargain becomes the most expensive thing one has ever bought.
This has been a challenge over the millennia. A mankind too often allowing themselves to be bought by the glitter and the gilt. And then pay the price later on. It is true that one gets what one pays for. One can hide the innate cheapness of some for only so long. The truth will be battering at the door. and its fists will be heard by those open to them, who will hear and listen and heed and open a passageway for them to enter the arena of humanity.
But this process, this repetitive, harmful process. takes too long. Humanity suffers under this burden of bargain rate leaders; bottom of the barrels and the barrels themselves are moldy and broken. Lack of thought and the consequences of time for humanity over the centuries have cost us dearly. Almost inevitably, Humanity managed to find the worst leaders. They did not necessarily want to hear Truths that might be hard and difficult to replant within society. There are several tables at the bazaar sale for leaders. Humanity falls too often for the Big Lie, the false words promising bargains for life, the best at the least cost.
And so, we get our bargains - for the most part, dregs of life. Sooner or later, too often, too late, we realize that we fell for the tricks and the glitz. To those who indeed have no honor. No positive thoughts. No true interest in doing better for the world. Merely for themselves.
They go cheap. Very cheap. What is it that they're selling cheap? Merely their souls. Merely their honor. Those things have been kicked down the road. Trashed. Yet another Faker who raises his ugly head and promises pie in the sky to the roiled society. Desperately seeking a leader to help them out of the consequences of their most recent poor shopping expedition. And lo and behold. There are those same bargains vying for their chance to get to the top of the heap. Climbing high and hard over the bodies of those they fooled. Truly the most expensive things on the market for their buyers.
We certainly got what we paid for. And pay for what we did. We pay through our noses for our persistence in lack of thought, in stupidity, and stubbornness.
Worst of all is that too often the addon is our soul, as individuals and as a society.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
We keep falling for the same nonsense.
Time to change the record or the tape or the disc or whatever is next.
The lingua franca of this nation, of every nation are words of divisiveness and hate.
Time to change.
Enough of false and dangerous bargains.
We have paid too high a price already.
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