Too Big To Fail?

The term "Too Big To Fail" is an interesting and paradoxical saying.

Usually bigness connotes strength and power. To be in danger of failing usually means weakness and powerlessness. So how is it, in our age, that power and powerlessness are embodied in the same institutions, like AIG, Wall Street firms, and automakers?

Like this verse in Daniel shows, with a weak foundation, everything else is weak.

"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay."
-- Daniel 2: 31-33 (KJV)

The lower one goes, to first things and founding principles--the feet, the weaker it gets. The conceit of this saying is that somehow we think we can keep these institutions from failing...backed by the biggest failing instituion of all, government which combines the monopolistic sword, fiat currency creation, and corrupt debt-laden monetary policy. Only the powerful can give paper value. But, America is not powerful anymore, in any real sense of the word...intellectually, morally, ethically. Live by the sword, die by it. Sure we can drop bombs on you but can we build?

Only God is too big too fail. Anything built by human hands can and will fail. As the Bible writes, "Unless the Lord buildeth a house, the laborers labor in vain."

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