Mike Parsons
A Well-Being Economy
I would like to see politicians who do want to be supporting the people of the country they live in rather than the big businesses or the corporations or everything else. People’s health and well-being should be the key factor. So I think a well-being economy rather than a productivity economy would more reflect God’s heart.
There are some governments around the world who have adopted a well-being economy agenda, but not the US, ot Britain, although I think Scotland does as part of Britain, and New Zealand. I think some of the Scandinavian countries are looking and thinking, “What are we doing? You know, we are ruining the planet, ruining people’s lives. What for? To make people rich.”
So I do believe that actually a well-being economy would change things to benefit more people for more of the time and therefore health and immortality would certainly be part of that.
Profit Over Health
Now, I do not know how much of this is true, but I read about when they first introduced corn syrup into the US food system and how it was marketed as the solution to everyone’s problems. Corn syrup has basically produced obesity throughout the world. But someone made a lot of money out of corn syrup and it was promoted by advertising to be a healthy option.
And I think there are things like advertising companies who make money promoting products which are unhealthy. I mean, look at the epidemic of opioid addiction and those that made all the money out of promoting addiction on the basis of, “This is safe and non-addictive.” When you look at oxycodone and other things, I mean, you know, I have looked at the movies or TV series about it and obviously people were prosecuted or whatever else, but it is still going on.
People are making money out of making other people sick. Well, that is the sort of thing that should be addressed in government, but who is taking the backhanders? Potentially, those who make decisions on what drugs and how much they are charging and all of that stuff. You know, there is this massive scandal in the pharmaceutical world, which is not trying to make people well, it is just trying to make people more money at the expense of other people while they keep them sick.
So I definitely believe there needs to be a change. That change will not come about until the governments are not influenced by those who have the most money and the most lobbying power.
Truth, Discernment, Integrity
So, I would love to see a well-being economy looking out for the health of the nation and changing things to help people live more healthily and live longer and eventually, if they live longer, finding God and finding healthy immortality.
It is not an easy world we live in and it is becoming harder and harder for people to know the truth. I mean, if you saw something on the TV 50 years ago, 40 years ago, even 30 years ago, you would think what you were looking at was absolutely the truth because you were seeing it on your screen and someone was reporting on it.
Now the people who are reporting the news are making the news and they are deciding what is news, and what you see you cannot believe with your own eyes anymore, unless you were there in person. And I think that is a very dangerous situation in that there are a lot of people who are not discerning enough to actually see what the truth is. Therefore, they believe what they are being told, and what they are being fed as true, when it is not true.
And sadly, I do not think most people will go and find out what is true or do their own fact-checking on what is true. They just listen to what is being said. And I do not think that is what we should be doing as believers. We should be looking at the truth, which is Jesus, spending enough time with the truth to be discerning of what is true.
So I never take what I am hearing and accept it as being true or not true. If it is important to me, I will fact-check it – with God, primarily. I might do some of my own research, but even that is harder and harder to do, to find out what is actually true because who knows whether what you are reading is true?
So God is the best source of information when it comes to what is true. And the more time you spend with the frequency of truth, then when you hear something, you discern the frequency of love and truth on it. That will help you.
Character Rather Than Charisma
And it is not one side or the other. It is both sides who do the same thing. And, you know, we need to rise above it all. We need to go into a realm where the truth is in a relationship which enables us to be discerning because we have practised training our senses to discern what is good and evil. And I do not think enough people have practised training their senses and therefore they are gullible to believe a lot of what is being said which is targeting them at their agendas.
I mean marketplace stuff, social media, it is targeting people to buy things because it is listening to conversations and all of that stuff. And you get targeted marketing. You get targeted political statements. There is no integrity in doing that at all. They just want to win at all costs.
And I do not think that is the way we should operate as believers. We should be looking at the truth and focused on what is the truth. And there is truth in both sides of every argument. And there are truth and good things in both parties. But you are not going to get it because they will not come together on a higher agenda of, “We will support these good positive things that you are doing if you support these good positive things that we are doing.” It just does not happen, does it?
But I would hope that change would eventually be driven from grassroots people who say, “Enough is enough. We are just not playing this game anymore. We are not agreeing to this system anymore.”
Now, how you would do that, I do not know. But change has happened politically in history from people rising up and saying, “We are not having this any longer.” You know, who would have thought the Iron Curtain would come down and the Berlin Wall would come down? No one thought that was possible. But individuals began to promote change supported by the grassroots who were behind change and eventually change happened.
I would never have imagined the Berlin Wall would come down in my lifetime. Well, now I am going to live forever, so in that sense it would anyway. But back then it was a huge shock that essentially communism fell. But now, what have we got? Something worse probably that says it is democratic but actually is not and operates the way it does.
So things can get hijacked. We have got to have the right people who bring about the right change for the right reasons. And that is why we need to look to people with character and integrity rather than look at charisma or money. Do they have the right character and are they operating with integrity?
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