Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000

RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

Yesterday and today, and probably tomorrow, as I look over the scene, I see concupiscence.  Oh, several other nameable phenomena as well.  Fascism certainly, treason surely, moral and political disunity for sure.  But more fundamentally, it all looks to me like concupiscence.  The desire to stuff the whole world into one’s mouth, to eat it up and have it too.

I think fascists — e.g., Democrats in the USA — have two desires, one for sex and one for money.

I think cynics — e.g., Republicans in the USA — likewise have two desires, one for anonymity and one for exclusivity.

And that all comes to concupiscence.  Perhaps it is the Hieronymean and Augustinian in me.  But that is what I see.

My Friend Blighter — Shirdi Playing Cat — has gone home to the desert and I miss him.
He went on Maundy Thursday 2013.
He was without vices.

Update 1: Thomas J. DiLorenzo: Economic Fascism (also here)

It’s called fascism and that is what it should be called, over, over and over, to its face and from the rooftops.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA