powerless power.

“With great power comes with great responsibility.” It’s one of those rules of nature. It might as well be gravity. It’s an undeniable truth.

But, it’s much more fun to have power without responsibility. But, it’s also hard to deny. So, what I’ve noticed is a tendency to limit the power.

God. The great omnipotent force of the universe. The most powerful being to ever exist.

Yet, I grew up with the thinking “give god credit for the good things but don’t blame god for the bad things”. Well, what kind of all powerful being is that? This being can’t prevent rape, murder, torture, pedophilia, genocide… hell, not even a hurricane?

Okay, so this being isn’t that powerful. And so, it doesn’t have to have that much responsibility for the state of the world.

Trump. The greatest president to ever exist in the greatest country to ever exist.

Yet, all I hear is that Trump can’t be blamed for COVID, for unemployment, for racial injustice, for the unrest in Democratic cities, for much of anything, honestly. This president can’t prevent all the things that he says we should be scared of…. unless he gets more power.

Okay, so this president isn’t that powerful. He needs more power.

And this is the scary thing with both gods and presidents - they will always claim the need for more power, not more responsibility. It’s a rather amazing branding and propaganda job, really. Yes I’m in charge but when I’m in charge other people are really in charge and so I need to continue to be in charge to prevent these other people from being in charge even though they are always in charge…

Well how about this: let’s talk about the power you have, what you’ve done with it, and go from there, before we start handing out more power? Oh, I think there’s some parable about this too.