It is the right of the previous generation to claim that the world is going to hell in a hand-cart. And the current generation, to claim that we are heading for the New Jerusalem.
Recently, I had the dubious pleasure of watching an important project stumble and fall, due to poor planning, dubious execution and an outright denial of any kind of critical examination of the ‘facts’.
Pointing out the obvious faults results in accusations of ‘negativity’.
The unworkable was surely possible by the expression of a winning smile.
Further argument was deemed ‘un-professional’.
Staring failure in the face was described as a ‘learning experience’ though nothing was learned at all.
The actuality was a shambles, but the whole sorry mess was deified by the belief that ‘the concept was good’, although it was reluctantly admitted that ‘some of the design decisions were unfortunate’.
None were guilty because none felt the fault was theirs, and pointing fingers might end up pointing at them.
If this is the New Jerusalem, then it might be well to say the words that passed the lips of many a Jew for over a thousand years …
Next year, in Jerusalem …
If you cannot see the wrong, and you cannot feel the right, then the New Jerusalem will be a thousand years away.
Or further.