Tomorrow is a child we have left to fend for itself. We have calculated and determined that we have only the means to support today. Every great plan has been sent to an orphanage, communist in spirit: the future's republic of great plans, and its independence day is always tomorrow. We can choose ease and comfort today or meaning in retrospect. Which is the better option? Can you feel it? A great world is throwing itself away, reassured because the dirty bin capturing our dismissed potential is labeled "recycling".
Why fight the philosophy of materialism? (And to be fair, the level at which this belief system is "taught" in America today doesn't even deserve the hallowed name "philosophy.") Because it forgets or represses the most important things. What doesn't bring immediate status, gratification, or comfort is assigned no worth. Think! You can only imagine the future - your children's future, your society's future - and imagination, by its nature, is in direct opposition to materialism. Of course, such things are not taught! Today, they reject spirituality and God; tomorrow, they reject the future. Mark my words! Hard work is a spiritual idea; it denotes an act of faith. We plant seeds without assurances that storms and droughts will not wipe them all away before the first sprout. Any animal can harvest. To be human is to plant and prepare. Soon, those who work toward the future in ways not immediately discernible (sometimes not even to themselves!) will be compared to monks in a monastery on 12-hour prayer shifts. Mark my words today because I will write more tomorrow!
As usual, some "deep think" obvious, and initiates the same in the reader. The only thing I don't understand here is-- the great plans that have been sent to an orphanage somehow being communist in spirit.