America: Global Trade and Raging Mediocrity - Part 1

Not a day transpires that we are not reminded of how profoundly America’s democracy and global trade have denigrated into a raging mediocrity.?

Carl Sagan, Einstein, Leonard and Mathew

Carl Sagan placed in perspective that we live in a cosmos which is full beyond measure of??elegant truths, exquisite interrelationships. Of the awesome machinery of nature;

Sagan reminds us that we are dependent as never before on science which is among the universe of things we least understand.?

Einstein, fleeing the rise of Nazism, made several declarations in America about science, religion, the intuitive mind and the imagination;

In the?Gospel of Matthew, the?Parable appears at the end of the?Sermon on the Mount?as follows:

Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.

—?Matthew 7:24–27,?World English Bible

Matthew's summary of Jesus' sayings, noting that "the people were astonished at his teaching", follows immediately after this parable.[1]

The Great Myth

The Great Myth is that parables do not relate directly to today's world; that they are irrelevant;

Part 2 - Myth and Metaphor