You’ve been told that Jeffrey Epstein was fond of underage girls. But that was just his hobby, not his day job. And not why powerful people are afraid of him.
Epstein’s day job was as a corporate termite. A dirty financial advisor. He seduced wealthy people by promising them vast tax savings and investment returns, in exchange for them turning over portions of their fortunes for him to control.
And many wealthy interests are terrified of what damaging financial information could be unearthed if all the secrets in Jeffrey’s files were ever made public.
People are not termites, or course. They are human beings.
But people can behave like termites, when they burrow their way into organizations…
And use their unsanctioned influence to weaken the organization in pursuit of their own private agendas…
Such people are pursuing their own private agendas…
Like the devil, whispering in one’s ear, they often bring out the worst in the people and organizations they serve.
Because termites are highly compensated, they often thrive at the expense of organizational workers doing actual work.
More immediate termite damage may include compromised organizational ethics, lower product quality, lower worker wages, and possibly compromised worker health and safety.
But damage may not be limited to the corporate hosts themselves, as it could spread outside of the company…
Causing industry wide damage, a loss of corporate reputation, lower worker moral, or even a health and safety threat to the consuming public.
While there are many types of organizational termites, this discussion will center on four types:
Financial termites, which facilitate tax and financial fraud, legal termites, which facilitate illegal or immoral organizational activities, marketing termites, which promote unethical manipulative marketing campaigns, and self promoters, whose real goal is to use the organization to promote their own interests.
Even a little corruption, if tolerated, can destroy the reputation of an otherwise sound organization, or even spread throughout it.
We live in a corporate run world, in which every is either a business, or a commodity
Corporations in the past, brought a shared prosperity to the citizens of our nation…
A philanthropic spirit filled our communities with libraries…
Affordable Housing…
Abundant career opportunities
Affordable health care…
But, as the wall between big business and the state began breaking down…
And the church and big business….
There was a corresponding increase in greed, and graft, with no real moral voice from the church to slow it down…
With the benefits increasingly flowing to the top alone…
While regular working class people got squeezed out, finding housing less and less affordable
And, while we continual argue over which political party is more responsible for our falling standard of living…
Or which church has the correct doctrine…
We can’t ignore the fact that leaders of both parties are doing far better than the voters who put them into office
And the lifestyle of our Megachurch pastors are more and more resembling that of the rich politicians we love to criticize.
And this is not by accident…
As all of our leaders seem to be listening to the same corrupting voice that tried to seduce Jesus in the Wilderness.
And this system of immoral influence is as old as time. We saw this with Haman counseling King Xexes to commit genecide against the Jews, in the Book of Esther.
And we saw this with the money changers at the temple, undoubtedly friends of the ruling class, who saw a money making opportunity by ripping off the poor.
We saw it when Judas counseling Jewish Religious leaders on how they can capture and kill Jesus.
Thus, its no surprise if we see this kind of termite driven corruption in the modern church today….
We saw it modern day events, when teams of lawyers created settlement deals to keep the pedophile scandal out of the news.
Only in America are churches run so much like businesses, but with the added advantage that they cannot be audited, and they cannot be taxed.
The existence of church NDAs is why the “Me Too” scandal in large churches looked so similar to “Me Too” scandals at the larger churches.
And, the marketing of churches, church events, and religious paraphenalia, is hardly indistinguishable from corporate marketing approaches. Somewhat driven by younger members, who have a desire to be a part of a “successful” ministry.
And one major way of marketing and promoting Churches, and church related services, is the “Christian Conference” approach. But there are problems there as well.
And, like secular rock stars, Christian Conferences often feature highly paid celebrity circuit speakers, to draw in the crowds, and increase profit margins.
And there are web sites where you can survey speaker fees for famous conference speakers and performers. Some charge $100,000 or more per appearance.
Another big draw at such conferences are “Christian Authors”, but increasingly, this industry has been impacted by secular market forces as well.
The result is a “what bleeds leads” mentality. Resulting in floods of books feeding the divisive and hate filled rhetoric we see today…
Often written to push some political agenda or another, that has no real basis in true Biblical doctrine.
In the New Testament, Jesus gave us the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, as a new covenant substitute for the Old Testament Ten Commandments. Jeremiah prophesized this before Jesus’ birth.
But conservatives still cling to the Old Testament Ten Commands, or as some would say, suggestions or comments…
But, we let the termite in, when we sat idly by while the churches morphed into just another business….
While corporations have never been perfect, many of us still remember a time when corporations valued their work force, and existed to produce products.
The Book “Makers and Takers” documents the transition that business took from being product oriented, to greed and profit oriented.
America became great because of its relentless focus on products, innovation, and fair business practices…
New corporate positions sprang into being that had nothing to do with actually producing or selling products. Like actual termites, they multiplied, and began to weaken the American management structure.
In the meantime, money was poured into paying management types, that contribute little to products or services.
Too often, the growth of termites results in the reduction of the real workforce, in order to pay for them…
And how much money do all these non-critical employees make? Boat loads!
And, as the termites grew, they cut into the pay of the actual skilled workforce.
And help companies bypass needed health and safety and legal regulations…
And, of course, the latest big money making gamble by large American businesses, is to replace much of their workforce with AI. Even though AI is largely unproven technology, with known “hallucinatory” issues.
But all of this is leading inevitably to America’s downfall…
When you combine a thirst for power, with a willingness to serve ethically compromised leaders, the results are never pretty.
For years, a few wealthy ideologues, have been working to leverage their fortunes to take over the workings of government, one Senator and Congressman at a time.
And, when political donors gift hundreds of thousands, or millions to a political candidate, they expect something in return…
This has resulted in dark money flowing into our political process, and corrupting the system
When combined with the dominance of Social Media by wealthy interests, the interests of regular citizens are being ignored.
Armed with an army of consultants and word smithers, to stay one step ahead of system reformers…
And while the public is entitled to be unhappy with politicians who use racist or sexist tropes in efforts to get elected, those ideas don’t come from nowhere…
They did this while cutting support for things that serve the public’s interest…
But, before we go further, let’s talk about ethical baselines. Because there are still moral people and organizations that believe in, and follow them.
Another famous case was when Joel Osteen was counseled to keep his church locked up after local flooding, to reduce their legal exposure….
Of course, we know that there are still corporate, political, and church leaders, who believe that they can have success, while continuing to honor legal and moral business practices.
And they need our support, when we pray…
When we shop….
When we post…
And, when we vote…
We have power over those who have rule over us, but we have to excerpt that power through the choices we have…
Or, we may end up with leaders making questionable choices that compromise our national honor and international reputation…
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