Time changes the props and their wardrobe...

 

Time changes the props and their wardrobe

To repeat its tales at the hubris of generations

The Metamorphed incarnation of the ‘Golden Calf’

The account of ‘the Golden Calf’, the worship of the tangibles for security, 

is probably older than this more renowned setting in the  Book of Exodus. 

The grasping and hoarding for the tangible is ubiquitously found throughout 

our species and our history. In every nook and cul de sac, provincial cranny 

culture in our world and its history we can find those groups or individuals 

in those groups where things and their trappings mean more than any less 

self-centered abstraction of alternative comfort and security.

Yet over the aeons we see the repeated cycle of the gravitation to the 

material over the more non-material, altruistic and selflessness ‘for the 

holistic good’. The settings change in appearance. The equipment becomes 

a reflection of the technological changes. Yet, the underlying character 

changes in only its expression, not its intent or selfish endgames.

Virtue, for the worshipers of ‘golden calves’, is a superfluous affectation 

or, worse, the aesthetics of the satiating aspects of the materialistic 

process. Those aspects of satiation are similar to the rights of devotion 

inferred of and attributed to those subjects who worshiped the 

“Golden Calf’ in Exodus. It arguably could be called a mania for the 

obsessiveness to which their lives rotated around the process of obtaining 

or have the trappings of those iconic trappings of materialism.

That mania is repeated through the generations, as has been said, 

‘Jeremiah 11:10 King James Version-10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their 

forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve 

them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made 

with their fathers.’

What was held a scripture of legend is played out again and again in a 

repeated rite of passage of what we think and act as the needs of our 

inescapable carnality.

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