Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Pay me your dues and feel the respect

Come to me my little children, come and recruit more members to pay me for the deeds I do for you. You poor unfortunates deserve better, and only I can deliver the prosperity you deserve. Join me, and pay me your dues, and I will make all of your problems go away. For membership is down. Participation is waning. Leadership is rebelling. My webmaster is delinquent in upkeep of his page. My DBR is in limbo, but you my little polyps can pay me your dues and feel the respect. Come join a committee, be a trustee, become embroiled in the politics of entitlement and envy. The old guard has retired, now the stoic militant remnants whisper the doom of the lodge, the fate of our future is lost to the petitioners who exposed our tricks; to steal wages from the workers; to buy votes of the masses. We stole wages from many to benefit a few, the few who we knew would pay us their due.