Janis Joplin –Freedom & Security & Securities

Janis Joplin –Freedom & Security & Securities

Story (related by Rabbi David Aaron in Endless Light p119) of a very very wealthy man giving but $100 stating :

I have a big company but I’m worried about it…Competition is tough. Who knows? One day I could lose it this . I too could have a reversal of fortune, so I cannot afford to give too much away right

The more he had, the more he had to worry he would lose.

Poor man.

Moreon-itis©

The more flesh the more worms, the more possessions the more worry, the more wives the more witchcraft, the more maidservants the more lewdness, the more slaves the more thievery….

Ethics of The Fathers 2:8

          Security.

          An old flame, ‘Flash, Class & Sass’ aka The Highland Parkway or the Highway coined the phrase ‘insecuriorites.’

          Interesting – conflating security with a complex – Freud would be proud. (And ‘twisted steel and sex appeal’ didn’t have a phd though she was the master of the ‘leg loan’ in real estate – quoting her).

          The etymology of securities is derived from security per the Old French securite or Latin ‘securitas from securus meaning ‘free from care.’ Obviously the man – and his great wealth which presumably included ‘securities’ (1) was not free from care – as the ‘more possessions the more worry’ regardless accumulation of ‘securities’ as he didn’t understand let alone believe in Hashem as Shaddai ‘enough’ (per God Almighty, God All Sufficient, Enough)

Freedom’s just another word for nothing (no-thing) left to lose

Janis Joplin’s Me & Bobby McGee

          Yes, God creates – man, given his chalek – talents on loan from God – builds upon (despite Pocohauntus & Fairaoh Obama) with the duty of being shomer tov – the good guardian during his caretaking. And yes, being in the material, believe in God but row away from the rocks (and cut the deck twice for that matter – so to speak.)

          But more for more’s sake – more securities – for enough - which is just a little more – just in case ‘as the competition is tough, I could lose this all’ – indicates a lack of faith not only in The Currency (Hashem) but one’s own self worth adaptability and resourcefulness that built upon Hashem’s creation for ‘net worth.’ Thus, the un-balanced sheet.

          The result: a more-on affliction of Moreitis manifesting physically (often ulcers etc) and an emotional state of – Insecuriority – believing in More rather than Shaddai (enough). And the irony: more, better, now (just in case of a reversal of fortune) has a habit of becoming, worse, less, later as more for more’s sake (the ideology of the cancer cell – Edward Abbey) instead of producing freedom toward – becomes obsessive compulsive fear.

Professor MOREiarities