How about this for a little ditty? (Repeat it a few times.)

Life… is… very

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So true.

Our current-day “geniuses,” our heroes, those we “celebrate” in these strange times?

They are men who create social media sites, massive online retail, or means of online payment.

Money, money, money.

Trillions in the hands of a very few.

Tens of billions–in single bank accounts.

If one must name a few of them: Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Musk, Google.

Bezos has used his money for things like a yacht so huge they had to dismantle a monumental bridge in Europe (Rotterdam) so it could get downriver.

Ah, our priorities.

Bezos launched a $2 billion fund to support organizations that help homeless families, and to create a network of Montessori-inspired preschools in low-income communities. So far so good. Except two billion is one percent of his “worth” (more than two hundred billion, or 2,000,000 million).

Zuckerberg has committed to giving away 99 percent of his Facebook shares over his lifetime, a commitment worth tens of billions of dollars. This is a very noble idea, and we’ll await its fruition.

Musk is widely called a “genius” and, wanting to spread good fortune, he has offered to donate his sperm for those ordering in vitro fertilization.

His claims to fame: PayPal, Tesla, Space X, and soon a flurry of robots.

PayPal our society could live without. The same is true of Tesla (luxury vehicles). Space flight has done fine for decades in government hands.

True genius, one would hope, is more vital than exploding a man toward Mars. It is more than create algorithms for Amazon and TikTok and Instagram.

To look at how much celebrities such as “Puff” Diddy (rapper/record mogul) were able to accrue is to view the far and fantastic reaches of materialistic excess.

The devil has always been an expert at handing out luxury.

God is the Expert at giving us what we need.

And most, what we need are things that redound to our eternal benefit, our eternal happiness, not the toys and bells and whistles and pretenses of life on earth, where the average lifespan is counted in less than eight decades.

This passing world. This world that wastes so much time on wealth and celebrities.

Life it is very

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And looking at it any differently is: fair-ly scary.