Sophistication-really?
Since I was a kid, about seventy years ago, being called a sophisticate was always applied to the wealthy and college or university graduates. However, my Mom told me that they all get up in the morning and have to go to the bathroom. She couched it in a different form so I will leave it there. My Mom was half-blood Cherokee so she knew a little about wealthy white guys from the way she and her culture were handled on the reservation. “Sophisticated my hind end,” is more or less the way she put it but, in a more colorful voice and inflection.
I’ve wondered since then about human beings and the way they love to lord over other human beings throughout history. Whereas, when a true King came along they crucified Him. That was a group that considered themselves sophisticated and also sealed their eternal fate at the same time.
If we move up to our times it is the politicians and corporate magnates that consider themselves sophisticated all the while not blinking once at hurting other people. It’s kind of funny, isn’t it. Go to church on Sunday and then bankrupt a person down on their luck on Monday. I wonder how God looks at these people. Does He consider these sophisticated? Not according to Him and He is the one whose son needs to be answered to. Kind of odd, isn’t it? I like being not very rich at all. I like having worked for what I have. Nobody handed me one free get out of jail card once in my life. You?
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