Why do so many people want to write?

- It's my opinion that so many people in our day want to be writers because they lack meaningful lives; and that they lack meaningful lives because under a socialist system they do less and less for themselves, and have more and more done for them.

- it's my contention that socialism renders most people superfluous.

- we can see this in the c. community. Whereas Christians once to do everything for themselves, now they let the godless (pagan) state do everything. Socialism has rendered the church a hollow shell, and empty husk. Christians let the state do everything; from operation hospitals, to daycare; to schooling for children (even children's lunches!) to taking care of the 'disabled' and weak, to taking care of the elderly, to handing out food stamps, and on and on and on.

- the result has been a church that has little or no function. The result has been that the church has no place for the 'heroic' as our professors put it. Christianity once had great appeal because it was where the action was, it was where people went for a challenge, where they went to live heroic lives. Christians were once people who did things; now they're people who just consume things; people who daily beg the state to do more for them. Socialism has thus thrust a dagger into the heart of the church, into the heart of christians. Christians are now the living dead; superfluous at best, pathetic at worst. (The intellectuals in the church, who should have been working against this development, have in fact led the campaign to bring it about; and thus have failed so badly there's no words for what they've done, or more accurately, not done.)

- and so the consumer Christian, who lives off handouts from the state, lives a meaningless life. He still wants self esteem however, so he hits upon the 'brilliant' idea of becoming a writer. He imagines he'll become successful (how hard can it be?) and garner the self-esteem he desires. His views will become well known, he'll become important, people will now respect him; maybe he'll be influential in getting some good done in the world. (ie. get some more socialist legislation passed.) All this is an almost complete waste of time, energy and talent. We have far more writers than we could possibly need. (No one could read a tiny amount of what's written each year, let alone read one book in a million of all that have been published.)

- Most would be writers have little or no talent; they just want to feel important, they want society to value them. (In a small community or tribe, the would be writer would be valued for their ability to think, to express things, to tell stories, etc.) They really want to be heroes, to do good, to battle 'evil' and so forth. But since the socialist state does everything for them, they have no 'heroic' tasks to challenge them. (Every healthy adult wants challenges, wants to do good for others.) So instead of building schools or businesses, people sit down at a keyboard and write some drivel. Instead of building and running a home for the elderly, they write a detective story, or a fantasy trilogy about dragons. Instead of getting married and having a family, they write romance novels. Instead of fighting the Leviathan called the state (growing every day) they write some novel about some person who has lost their faith.

- It's my view that we want to write because we are made in the image of God. I can't imagine an animal wanting to write. (An animal would have nothing to write about for one thing.) The fact so many millions of people daily sit down to write, in the hopes of one day getting published, is evidence that Materialism is a false doctrine, and evidence Creation is true. I say this for various reasons;

a. if one truly believed thoughts are just random chemical reactions why would one write?
b. if one truly believed there is no truth why would one write?
c. if one believed there is no freedom, why would one try to persuade?
d. if one believed people were just animals why would one want to enlighten them? Why would one try to reason with them?
e. if one believed people are just drones being manipulated by instincts (or 'selfish genes) why would one want to write? Wouldn't writing just be an exercise in delusion?
f. if one believed people were just animals why would one speak in moral terms to people, why would one try to persuade them to act in moral ways?
g. if one believed people were just animals why would one try to get people to laugh?

- I could go on, but I think the point has been made. We write because we bear the image of god. (ie. we're no gene carriers, but image bearers.) In other words, we write because we are like, in a small (reflected) way like God. This means we care about truth, about beauty, about morality, about justice, about others, about meaning, and so on. If, for one reason or another, we can't live out these things, we settle for the substitute of writing about them.

- a critic might say, ''well why do some atheists write then?" For the same reason Christians do. Believing matter is all there is don't change the fact the atheist is made in the image of god. (Although a life of sin can and does diminish or suppress that image.)

- what I've tried to do here is use the doctrine of creation to examine some crucial issues of our day. In this case I've used it to look at political schemes, and at the example of writer's envy. The nanny state has an absurdly low view of human beings; it treats adults like children; it gives people no challenges, and no room to fully express their potential. (Socialism is a potential killer, and it produces people who never mature. A consumeroid (an ugly term for an ugly reality) can never become a mature adult. Socialism clips people's wings, it keeps them in a cage... no matter how well cared for. Socialism is a self-worth project for political hacks. However much it does for them it does the opposite for the people they pretend to care for.)

- the sad fact is that most writer wanne-be's are couch potatoes; and they have nothing to offer us. Their desire for heroism and for self-esteem is being squandered on fruitless projects. What they need to do is put down their pens and live out the Christian life; to stop writing and start living.

- This in no way should be construed as meaning I don't value writers and thinkers. I read every day, because I value such people, and what they can offer. This being said, the sad truth is that most people who dream of being writers have no real talent at all. Great writers are as rare as great composers. What the writer wanne-be wants is to be taken seriously. (But under socialism he's nothing but a cog in a great machine, he's anonymous, superfluous, and utterly ignored by all.)