Original Sin

In my opinion Original Sin, as portrayed in the Garden of Eden account, is about taking things for granted. Eve lost her perspective. Consider it: Eve is living in the Garden of Eden, for fuck's sake, and she gets obsessed with the one arbitrary, inconsequential, trivial thing she's told she can't have. She takes her incredible good fortune for granted. 

By this standard we Americans are living massively sinful lives. We take a lot for granted. We aren't thankful at all, really, or certainly not enough or we wouldn't have elected Trump, our new oinker-in-chief. Trump voters know how screwed-up he is. They take for granted that we can get away with it, though we haven't already. It's just happening slowly.

We are in a slow decline and Herr Donald is now our leader, a careless and reckless person--a guy who only knows how to go forward hard and fast and never look back. It's already a loss. The only unknown is how badly it will play out. And we need to reflect on what it means and feels like to live hugely sinful lives. It's not what we expected. 

Our expectation wasn't our own corruption or for it to look the way it does, as it happened. We thought it was always obvious, like in an old movie, but we are the bad guys and don't know it. This is what it looks like on the inside, to give yourselves over to darkness. It looks like Republican politicians and Donald Trump. Eventually this will be obvious.