I like to think of ‘The Matrix,’ as that reality that most Americans are living in, where you have no idea of what’s going on in politics, because you’re too busy at work and at play to watch cable news or spend all day in the blogosphere, and you don’t care enough for it to matter anyway.
(It is this mentality, incedentially that has caused us to endure the many painful consequences that occur when weak leadership is in power at all levels of government)
It’s been almost 6 months since I’ve lived in that reality, (I’ve been out of the matrix and in ‘the real world’ of political awareness since around the same time that I discovered Mike Huckabee), but I had a forced re-emersion these last three days or so because of the sheer volume of work that had to be done on next semester’s teacher schedule.
Wow, talk about putting a puzzle together… and it doesn’t help to spend 8 hours one night putting it together, to discover the next day that there were pieces missing you didn’t know about, so then the whole thing has to be re-worked for another 10 hours!!
It’s been pretty exhausting, but refreshing not to have the alternate political tension hovering over every minute.
I spend so much time pointlessly fuming about nasty comments political bloggers make, or being frustrated that ‘Huck isn’t doing anything yet’ or drowning in people’s hostility to candidates across, and even within party lines, that it’s very hard to remember.. people don’t care a whole bunch about something they are uninformed about.
I used to wonder.. HOW could people NOT know how good for America Mike Huckabee would be. But if they’re living in the matrix, chances are, all he is to them is a funny sounding name that they know nothing about.
It makes what he accomplished this season even more remarkable. But I’m rambling…
My point is, when I emerged from my forced hiatus, Mike had had an amazing conference call with 6000 supporters, the MSM and blogosphere was buzzing with the news that he had signed up with a talent agency, and that his political action committe was about to be launched.
Barak Obama had once again managed to put his foot in his mouth by implying that God, guns and prejuidice is something that ’small town America clings to out of ‘bitterness’ at their economic lot in life, and John McCain had yet to make further inroads into the social conservative resistance of his candidacy.
All of which, had not remotely impacted the past few days of my life away from the inner workings of the political blogosphere. They all may as well have ceased to exist.
All of their ‘doing’ did not reach me once I was out of access of their ability to communicate and engage with me. Reaching me directly with the message was the only way it could touch my life.
In the business of our christian walk, and all of the ‘doing’ that we do for Christ, let us all step up our efforts to do some direct and personal communication of the good news, to those people in our sphere of influence.
The great impact of the ‘international missions ministry’ to spread the news of God’s love and forgiveness isn’t known to, or influencing your neighbor next door. That’s YOUR job… it’s why you’re their neighbor, or co worker, or teacher.. “How will they know, unless you tell them?”
Lets not be satisfied to leave them asleep in their hopeless, Godless matrix.
It’s time to wake some people up.
His Handmaiden.
