Arizona’s recent immigration law has made the state both a beacon of states’ rights or a cesspool of racism, depending on your perspective. This has been the theme of many conversations and I think both sides have failed: Progressives have lost the ideological principals necessary for believing in a strong national border and immigration standards and conservatives have failed to clearly defend those principles as moral. 

I was recently asked if I wanted to live a meaningful life? I was told that in life you don't get what you deserve you get what you negotiate, while this may not be true, the question about a meaningful life sparked these thoughts. 

The question I was asked appears to be loaded and/or open for interpretation. Just asking the question about meaning opens a “Pandora’s Box” about what we find to be valuable. 

Can the homeless man lead a meaningful life? Does the prostitute serve a purpose? Does the politician deserve our trust? What about the drug addict or wanderer? According to the rules of organized societies, these people are not as valuable to serve purpose x, y, and z unless rehabilitated to the norms of the culture in question. 

I often read a blog titled “What’s Wrong with the World” which deals in topics of philosophy, politics, culture, and many other issues under the sun. The title is influenced by G.K. Chesterton, a great thinker that we all should know something about, whose clear writing influenced a generation like C.S. Lewis and others.