THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF ENERGY & WHAT WE DO WITH IT

In physics there's a law called The Conservation of Energy (energy in the universe can never be destroyed). No such law in sociology. But there is something about our daily output of human energy that beckons us to at least examine it and its consequences.

Every morning of every day in every land, people get up and do what they do. With passion or out of habit, with purpose or no longer remembering why, with value to the society or not. The point is, this seething worldwide energy from out of 6 billions lives may be able to be prioritized. Not as a law, but as a point of reference.

Chances are most of the world's populations can agree there are some top-priority doers out here. Legislators legislating, judges judging, teachers teaching, doctors doctoring, nurses nursing, ministers ministering, sales people selling, lawyers lawyering, parents parenting, creative talents creating, first-responders responding, and municipal workers from cops to firefighters to street crews holding it all together.

Next down are those important people whose importance is often open to argument; at least among those they impact. Wall Street bankers, corporate boards, political lobbyists, journalists, public relation handlers, television executives, bloggers and tweeters. Whereas that first echelon looks kinda solid, this second tier of energy can often render as much harm as help.

Next down our professional athletes, fashion models, social elites, and those revolving celebrities who are famous for being famous. These members of the world's population generate enormous bodies of energy in our midst, with debatable results to our midst. The ironic thing is how so many of the rest of us invest so much of our energy into their energy that a lot of good energy is squandered in between their egocentric headlines.

At the lowest Dante-level of society come those who hardly lack energy. These are among the busiest of our fellow man. Generally the underworld in every society. Organized crime members, con men, street thugs, gang members, drug pushers, and assorted deviants. It's often said -- and said wisely -- if they ever marshaled their energies into socially approved activities, there's no telling how far their talents would carry them. And us.

It's a bit presumptive to prioritize human energy this way. Still, there's one energy field few will deny top place. Love...! The love of one human to and for another is without question the greatest, yet most mysterious, human action under and in heaven. Without it, there would be little left to prioritize.