Skammentary: If you aren't reading Michael Shellenberger's eponymous Substack, you ought to: Michael Shellenberger. Simply throwing up our hands, declaring our problems insoluable is not a solution, nor even a coherent coping strategy. I am very fond of repeating the mantra, "Politics will not save us," in large part because so many of my fellow Christians—on both left & right—seem to place their hopes not in the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, but in false messiahs, both Progressive & National Conservative. Politics will not save us, but the Lord has given us brains & He expects us to use them in the service of His Kingdom, in the service of one another & the common good.
"How did this, could this come to this?
(Helpless heartless loneliness)
A hand held out hope someone gives,
(I'm a man without a place to live)
A man without a place to go
(And it just might be my fault I know,)
Won't hold you up or bag your eyes
(But I'm a man please realize).
"How did, this could this come to this?
(Helpless heartless loneliness!)
Heartless! Had a heart just yesterday!
Helpless! Didn't used to be this way!
Homeless! That's the worst part of it all!
Fuck this! What I scream at every wall!…"
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