Biggest Thing?

I read an article that said the biggest thing in 2020 is the economy.

Well, I disagree. The biggest thing now and evermore is and should be our humanity and how to preserve it. The economy is an accoutrement. Like a house or car or vacation trip, nice to have, fun to enjoy, but not the be-all and end-all of life.

You are important to me, to yourself and to others. Same for me. For all of us. To lessen that value is a horrible distortion of life itself.

Yes, the economy is important. It is an engine of possible. It gathers people together and individually to make, trade, buy and sell things and services. The revenues or trading medium expands access to more consumer goods and services that enhance life. Survival is singular at first, but communal quickly. Together several people survive better, easier and longer.

Small at first, the community enlarges from family to neighborhood to village, town and more. Much more. As people interact networks gather value and complexity. Sharing expertise, information and togetherness expands. Eventually city, state, region and nation take their shapes.

It all starts with you or me. Just one person, then two, then…

Everything else is extra. The extra is not the ends or the means to the end. This debate is very old and settled.

All world cultures teach love of self and others. It is the basis of all theology. The core truth is quite simple and bare. Because of that we are to work together, not apart.

Now. Do. You. All. See. Why. Wearing. A. mask. Is. So. Important?

Vote for people. Vote for ideas. Not things.

November 3, 2020