I was a Math guy. English, Social Studies, literature… all those classes were terrible for me. Right and wrong are completely subjective. The validity of any point-of-view is a matter of opinion and sometimes a right perspective takes decades or even centuries to prove themselves. Ironically, history has proven, that the right perspectives are often the unpopular ones. With math, it’s simple, the answer is right or wrong.

It’s not surprising that I work with computers. The program will either work, or it won’t. Sure, sometimes it takes a while to discover the problems, but each iteration hopefully proves better than the last.

Having first hand experience with how many tries it takes to get anything practically to work correctly I have become even more suspicious of those who often very whimsically pronounce wrongness or rightness on matters that are purely matters of opinion. The fact that I prefer to put a comma before the word “and” most of the time, or my propensity to use quotes “incorrectly” to emphasize an opinion that I do not share, or that I despise the practice of putting a period inside quotes when the period is not part of the quote. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been corrected on that one. However, it’s only after being corrected that I often discovered that the ones doing the correcting were actually wrong themselves.

Anyway, I find little satisfaction in sitting in a room and debating the specifics of a plan when flipping a coin would be as likely to have a favorable result. Interestingly enough, that is the job of the world’s executives. Seems a bit strange that the people “in charge” are the ones whose performances are virtually unmeasurable. Sure, profitability for a company is a clue, but that has more to do with the people who actually produce practical results than the people wearing suits, sitting in rooms, and talking about things they barely understand. In fact, I’ve seen many of the most ridiculous ideas come out of those rooms. Ideas that send companies straight into bankruptcy while somehow also resulting in the promotion of the person responsible! I once was part of a team of 40+ people that cost a now bankrupt company over 5 million dollars and we produced something in 6 months that I could have built myself in 1 month. No exaggeration.

We live in a backward society, and politics exaggerates this fact. By the time the consequences for the decisions our leaders today are making take hold they will almost certainly be blamed on someone else. What a great job! If there is any accountability, it is usually diverting the criticism or taking the credit for things that someone else did. How many stories of failed state health care attempts do we hear that include some congressman that continued to be elected anyway? How many of those legislators go on to suggest the same path for the Country? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and it’s my own darn fault!

I do believe that matters of morality are absolute. However, everyone’s perceptions of this are also varied. In the end I guess I should just be glad that I can often see clearly when I’ve done something correctly or incorrectly. I’m happy that I have these experiences to realize that it’s often the thing you didn’t consider that matters most. Or better put, we strain at nats and swallow camels! Matt 23:24.