Well my last post seems to have gone over well, so I trust I’m striking a chord with some people at least.
I talked a lot about being arrogant in that post.
What I don’t want to do is come off like I’m blaming Gen Z and Millennials for this.
While I do blame them in some capacity for making their own decision to embrace all this insanity, I can’t say they’re particularly stupid or evil compared to the rest of humanity.
It’s been pointed out by smarter people than me that the age of Moral Standards we’ve lived in for the last 200 years in the West, give or take a few decades or centuries depending on the country, was not a usual thing for humans. It’s the anomaly.
From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the Revolution era, it was a very unusual period in history compared to before, especially the pre-Christian era.
Up till then, the general consensus from all people’s was that everyone else was corrupt, and only their culture stood out, and some of them didn’t even go that far.
If you read what the Bible describes people doing, it would shock you how sick it was. Even now, we haven’t gone that far–as a whole–though some of us have.
And God somehow still had hope for those people. It boggles my mind. But He was always looking for the Remnant.
What big movement preachers tend to overlook, though they mean well, and I wish what they talked about was more frequent than it is–is that Positive Change, as well as Ethics being Preserved, is usually the work of small amounts of people.
A few thousand out of many thousands, is usually the biggest amount of people who work together on it.
It can be as few as 8, like the story of Noah (the legend is found in almost every culture in the world by the way, often with the same number of people surviving as the Bible says.)
God has His eyes always on the few.
Jesus even told us “Straight is the gate and narrow is the way to Life, and few will there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:14)
Which seems harsh…but Jesus is just telling us how this works.
The Masses of people are not concerned with morality that much, and if they ever are concerned about a few things in general, it was the phenomenon of the past thousand years to see that, it wasn’t common before.
That’s why some historians have the idea that Man’s Consciousness is evolving. They look at our moving toward higher and higher ethical standards, and or at least more discussion about them, and they say we improved.
But if you look at the bare facts of history, you’ll see each age has its own problems, and they repeat. We’re not smarter as a whole, it’s isl that those of us in each generation that do See Clearly, see a little more, because wise men learn form history and they build off of it, but foolish ones ignore it and they always have.
That was part of the thought that’s been rolling around in my head for several months, which is just this:
Things that people predict will happen if a country doesn’t change it’s course always do actually happen.
And no one listens because no one ever has listened.
You see, a lot of social commentators say that the problem is people just don’t realize what is happening.
But that is not true.
Sure there’s secrete scandals still, there probably always will be as long as mankind is in power.
But the problems that are eating away at us are ones people predicted and called to attention for years, and decades, and even centuries.
Just like in the Bible the Prophets told the Israelites what was happening. And the Israelites didn’t listen.
It’s so hard for us to admit this, isn’t it? That we do what we do, knowing exactly what will happen, and we do it anyway.
Example:
If you got any person to answer you honestly on the subject of depicting violent in movies directed at kids as much as we do, they’d have to acknowledge that statistics do point to violence in entertainment having a bad effect on kids and their development.
https://www.bartleby.com/essay/effects-of-tv-violence-on-children-F3CEVXSZTC%5D
But would they stop promoting that stuff by watching it, talking about it, reviewing it, and in many cases, showing it to their own kids.
My father did, and he’d be one of the ones to say it was a problem.
You see? We know…we just don’t care.
That’s always the way.
I’m glad that my faith was never in humanity to begin with, because living in a world where everyone’s corruption is exposed so much via internet would kill anyone’s faith in humanity.
We hope for the best from people, but we cannot depend on it, unless we know them very well.
But that’s not really mean to be a depressing thought. The Bible has said that for years. All these angsty pop culture hot take people are just agreeing with an old teaching, that’s all.
It’s like G. K. Chesterton said, if we try to hit on anything original an good, we’ll only find it was Orthodoxy the entire time.
Even the idea of Self Worth is Christian, though it’s been taken way, way out of it’s proper context, as always.
I don’t know if there’s a better or worse thing to worship other than God. One could make the case for it, but it’s kind of a matter of opinion whether the worship of success and domination of a few hundred years ago is really better or worse than the worship of tribalism and self fulfillment is now. Often both at the same time.
Humans are not better or worse than we’ve been in the past.
But we are regressing out of the progress the last centuries brought us in at least realizing how messed up we were.
People used to admit that there was a lot wrong with human nature, even if they didn’t see it in themselves.
But now we’re really trying to deny that Human Nature is corrupt.
Telling people to “Be themselves” no matter what.
Yes,the message to be genuine is a good one.
But predictably, since other messages were neglected, it’s become “be yourself even if that you is a terrible person.”
Women will admit to be aggressive b—-s publicly now. Like ti’s something to brag about.
“I’m so mean, yay!”
Or “so evil” I hear that one a lot.
“I have no soul” guys say that one too.
“no heart.”
Wow, so brave of all of you to admit to being inhuman. Hip hip hurrah.
I think actual people who are jerks have always been proud of it, if they weren’t arrogant, they probably would be jerks.
But at least it wasn’t approved of by the entire culture before, not for a long time, but we’re swinging back that direction.
Let’s just remember that in Greek Culture, which is where we get a lot of our ideas, rape and kidnapping were normalized parts of their mythology that no one thought twice about. It’s possible to be completely blind to the obvious.
Actually we’re blind to the obvious most often, because we just don’t want to see it.
2 Timothy 3 says this about it:
“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.”
Even if we ignore the ones I didn’t emphasize, though they are still prevalent, look at how much those words sum up not just our complaints at a culture, but the things we actually praise.
Romans 1 says that people, known such thins are wrong, not only practice them but approve of those who do.
In 2000 years, nothing has changed.
Ecclesiastes says there is “nothing new under the sun.”
It’s been dawning on me that while I appeal to people’s desire for morality when I debate them, I am assuming they care at all.
But I think less and less of them do.
Aside from the SJW crap that they are programmed to react to, without understanding it at all, they really don’t care about higher thought.
These things have no value to them. They live for entertainment and pleasure. For Self. And no one tells them this is unacceptable.
It’s not a mystery why the Media promotes this. Selfish people buy more things, and care less if you exploit others to provide them with those things.
But it’s sad how the schools and churches have promoted it so much also.
They have us so much under their spell, the Overlords’, that we can be told this point blank, even by our own commercials on TV, and we simply don’t care. Just keep distracting me. The world is a dark place.
Well in Quasimodo’s words to Frollo “Well now I see the only thing that’s dark about it is people like you!”
See, the people who tell us to stay away form the world because of its evil are the same ones making it evil. They don’t want us to catch on, do they? Called Gaslighting.
Because if we did catch on, we might stop them, and evil men fear having their deeds exposed, don’t they?
They hate and fear those of us who know better and have pure hearts. And like Fagan from Oliver Twist, they want to make sure anyone who does is corrupted.
A lot of anime has this theme also. What is Japan trying to tell us, huh? That people who are naturally more inclined to do good than the rest of us are feared the most.
Don’t you fear someone who seems like a better person than you, sometimes? I know I have.
I’ve mostly given up thinking of it that way, we’re all human. But I can do that because I have grace, the people who don’t are still afraid, we remind them of their own death the Bible says.
People have accused Christians of that ever since they first appeared.
I have to recognize as I write this that a lot of people may not even be ready to hear what I’m saying.
They may not even be to where they see a piot ot all this.
I can hope it resonates with someone who is ready, who needs it.
Like “wow I’m not crazy!”
My advice, if i’m qualified to give it, is if you have found yourself noticing all these problems, don’t waste time being chocked by them.
Try to find that remnant of people who still believe in the old values, and stick with them.
And reach who you can. There’s always some wheat among the tares of each generation, perhaps more than we realize, since many of us give up trying to reach them.
It’s not our job to decide who can receive truth and salvation, we are supposed to shoot our shot, and let God choose how it lands.
I don’t know what all our fates will be, and I ‘m not suppose dot know, but I know that we can’t control destiny, only how much we want to take an active role in it. There are still things that will happen no matter what, but there’s a lot we can change also. So we are still supposed to try.
That said, for now I’m done, so until next time, stay honest–Natasha
drybonestruth 