no exceptions

I'm going to be honest, with the economy falling apart one bank at a time, feeling the pinch at work from lagging sales, two wars that like the energizer bunny on crank keep going and going and going, prices at the grocery store steadly climbing and as soon as the election has passed those gas prices will jump back up as well,...its enough to make anyone say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! If there is a grand force in this universe that cares enough to tell us not to covet our neighbor's wife-ox-or 50 inch plasma then why in the hell can't this force intervene and give us the struggling ants a break!
but as soon as i throw up my hands in utter emotional exhaustion i am forced to remind myself,...how arrogant am i to think what i'm experiencing right now is specifically directed at me. EVERYONE is suffering, and to be disturbingly real about it we (americans) have been terribly spoiled for the most part and only now are we getting a small glimpse at what life looks like to most of the rest of the world,...uncertain, strapped for liquidity, and skeptical of its governing elite not only in politics but in business as well.
surrendering the ego and leaning back to gain perspective on a problem reveals why albert einstein and baruch spinoza believed in the same definition of a higher power. There is no doubt that something vastly powerful created all this,...there was a beginning,...an unfathomable spark in the void that vomitted forth a system that survives and thrives on a set of rules some we have come to understand others we have yet to discover but this system keeps everything in balance chaos and order light and dark humility vanity the pendulum exists not because it wants to, it just is. It is a sobering epiphany when you close your eyes that no special force is specifically watching over you while you sleep, you ARE NOT bound. you are free to fail or succeed, or be indifferent in your life. the system will not be moved to make an exception for you. the system is indifferent. its beautiful and its beyond me to understand it but i can appreciate it for what it is and like einstein and spinoza did, be perpetually in awe and never stop picking at the system hoping to uncover more and more of its beauty and its harshness,...because like it or not i'm not satisfied with the condescending emotional roadblock that my parents threw out occasionally when i asked them a question they didn't know the answer to "It just is what it is, when you get older then you'll understand." fuck that. what i'm learning is that when you get older you only learn how to justify your own laziness better,...that's all.
but i digress, this mess america finds itself in is not a sign that the devil lives on wallstreet,...its a simple cause and effect equation. a bunch of people thought they deserved to be rich while the people they were supposed to be helping deserved to get got-and since the people we've elected to represent us often sleep with the same gordon geckos that masterminded this entire bloody mess they of course were waiting for their money shot while we the american people got it right, in, the eye.
the laws exist,...even when we don't see them. they exist. indifferent, layered, and final.
its only scary when we think we're special, then vainly we think we can manuever through those rules and not get caught, and that's when the universe gives us that disturbing wake up call...
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS