God's Drug Dealers

In our modern world in recent years many ways have evolved to be able to sell drugs.  Once and traditionally the medical profession was ethical.  (or was it?)  I am too young to know the answer to that question.  I am not quite a Baby Boomer.  Born in 1962 I fall in the cracks of American culture.  Ideally, if I got to choose, I would live in the early part of the 20th century.  There was so much going on in the 1920's, "The Jazz Age," and it was progressive.  Expressionism was in its infancy with urgency from the Second Viennese School.  To this day the music of Alban Berg and Anton Webern under the tutelage of Arnold Schoenberg forged a new era of human consciousness.  It is unfortunate America will not recognize this transformation.  If you asked the average American what they would like to hear for music, it is unlikely they would say, "An Elliot Carter string quartet."  Maybe they would listen to George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," but music in America no longer traverses boundaries.  We have become more compartmentalized if anything.  Pop/Country has been our mainstream music for several decades, and now it would seem Disney has invaded Drum Corp International.  I am contradicting myself.  If there are more ways to sell drugs in America, isn't that diversity?  Opportunity has changed, and this is the concept.  The internet has changed America more than any one thing I can think of, and it is because of our Capitalist system.  Jeff Bezos figured this out quickly, but had to work diligently for a long time to become the richest man in the world.  I would say the internet has become lucrative, but is this economic opportunity available to everyone?  I would say, "No."  That is because the internet is not regulated, as it should be.  If the most money in the world has been made from selling goods on the internet, then logically this system must be regulated.  Without appropriate oversight it is now.  There is a dark web, and murderous illicit drugs are being imported covertly from Mexico and China.  Pot is being transported through the U.S. Mail.  Regulation in America has flown out the window, and it is the crux of our problems.  I am tired of preaching that you can't keep all the money.  For Capitalism to work the money has to flow through the social classes.  Everyone needs to make money to be able to spend it, and that has not been happening.  The three ways of selling drugs are not an exact metaphor for our devolution in regulation.  Perhaps they are.  The Sackler family successfully pitched their product through a legitimate pharmaceutical company.  It was a far reaching, illegal, and immoral campaign of making money while turning Americans into useless and often dead junkies.  Oversight was a problem.  The other way is to deal drugs from the street corner, and perhaps if there is a respected way to sell illicit drugs, this is it.  The convenience of unregulated internet commerce has facilitated this ill.  That you can log onto the "dark web" and order drugs from China is a disservice to America.  It also is a disservice to allow common citizens to own criminal assault weapons.  The right to bear arms if fundamental in the Constitution, and staunchly I support this.  A long rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol are enough to ensure the sanctity of your home.  These armaments should be accompanied by an appropriate training course.  We do not let our children drive without training, although Driver's Ed is a shadow of its former self.  It is a worthy metaphor for the change in American insensibility.  How can we let our children drive a dangerous metal projectile capable of mass murder while looking at a smartphone screen?  It is unconscionable.  There should be a federal law prohibiting such activity.  Both hands on the wheel, and eyes on the road always.  Human life is worth this commitment.  We still let it happen.  If if guy can get the product and risks his life hawking it on the street, perhaps he deserves the monetary reward.  The Sackler Family used a well respected institution in the medical establishment to sell their drugs.  Perhaps they are the biggest instigators of white collar crime, the minions of Satan.  They killed hundreds of thousands of people like DuPont, and yet they walk free.  This is America.  In between the corrupt pharmaceutical company and the street corner drug dealer is the active duty military smuggler.  Most likely they are supplying some of the street corner product, but not most of it.  They are operating in a different theater of education and legitimacy.  Exploiting the military isn't that different from exploiting our medical establishment.  It is not as evil, but it is scourge.  We once were indoctrinated to respect the United States military, and perhaps at certain points it merited this respect of patriotism.  Veterans of the World Wars were heroes.  Like America the military has changed.  We are yet to discover and understand America's "Second Cold War."  What we do know if that the American military initiative absolutely failed in their mission in Afghanistan because of the defense industry.  It is simple and grassroots.  Patriotism is blood.  It is not big business, corporate America, or government.  To survive and defend a nation it takes blood, sweat, and tears, not Black Hawk helicopters.  We erroneously pitched this snake oil as practical and effective nation building.  Instead of trying to understand the Afghani people and their culture, we tried to superimpose American democracy.  They were very happy to continue to cloak themselves in dessert savvy attire and don an assault weapon on the streets like drug dealers.  They enjoyed this aspect of the job more the white collar crime.  The dollar was not the ultimate desire.  They are attracted to a lifestyle not contingent upon mass wealth.  Instead they could get by with a lifestyle that offered them blood, sweat, and tears.  America has become the land of posers, and posers sit on the couch attempting to move money around at their leisure.  All of us to some extent have been sitting on the couch cloistered at home during the Coronavirus outbreak.  Necessarily I have not dug in the dirt, planted flowers, or tilled the earth for fear of infecting myself with bacteria or fungi.  It would seem these substances are everywhere including our own bodies, but a compromised immune system allows them to overpopulate and thrive.  Doing these things, like most things we do as enlightened human beings, is symbolic.  Our actions and habits always may not have direct results, but they represent appropriate human behavior always.  Even if you are depressed or disabled, healthy daily habits will sustain you.  If you can't manage to form a coherent thought or solve a problem, always you can mow the grass.  You can plant a vegetable.  You can water the flowers.  You can prepare a meal. (if you know how)  Our actions really are symbolic, and being such we must understand that.  God's kingdom is the same.  Our worship of Him and our prayers are fomenting our future relationship with Him.  My roommate on a ship once said to me, "When you get to the Pearly Gates, why should God let you in?"  We may believe God knows all, and hence he knows us and our lives, but using human interaction as a model politics is the ensurer of security.  If you think the job will come to you without diligent politicking, think again.  You have to make it happen, and that occurs through people.  God is no different.  You and He will benefit from your communication.