Hydrophobia
I think we are pretty much done, and by “we”, I mean Western civilization.
It may survive in pockets around the world, but it sure appears we are headed for a Hobbesian world where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
What took centuries to build from ignorance, barbarity, mysticism, and filth is now headed back into an age of ignorance, barbarity, mysticism, and filth – and in a matter of a few decades.
It’s due to three groups of people – one group that welcomes savagery in the acquisition of power, those who watch and do nothing because they don’t believe descent into madness and violence is possible, and another group that clearly recognizes the fall, but is too small and impotent to take charge.
I don’t know what has caused this spreading plague of insanity.
Maybe it is biological, too many mood-altering drugs in our lakes and streams. Maybe it is psychological, a matter of a deep and spreading plague of mental illness. Maybe it is simple laziness.
Maybe something evolutionary has changed the paleomammalian cortex, also known as the limbic system, considered to be the oldest area of the brain. This area is the center of human emotion consisting of a set of brain structures located on both sides of the thalamus, immediately beneath the medial temporal lobe of the cerebrum primarily in the forebrain. Research has determined its various components support a variety of functions including emotion, behavior, long-term memory, and olfaction.
But maybe it is just simple jealousy and envy, two emotions that have been destroying everything from personal relationships to whole nations for the entirety of history. These are sins that erode the heart, mind, and soul until a human being becomes little more than a walking raw nerve irritated by every single thing that touches it. When humans lose the ability to think, they simply act.
If you go to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, the problem is right in your face.
From immediate, visceral negative reactions to anything any conservative or Republican says or does to people getting their knickers in a twist over what Melania wore to Rosalynn Carter’s funeral - it was a grey and black herringbone topcoat over a black dress that the moronic leftists thought was disrespectful (despite Rosalynn Carter wearing a beige jacket over black to Nixon’s funeral), the raw nerve theory is proven. Their view of justice is that anytime, they decide somebody is guilty, they are guilty regardless of the unproven nature of the “crimes”, most of which some Democrat has done in the past with no concerns from this Amen Chorus. This has been a feature of the Democratic mind since NPR’s Nina Totenberg claimed during the Clarene Thomas confirmation hearings that “it is the seriousness of the charge that matters.” Of course, they reprised this with an added side of violence during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings with protesters occupying the halls of Congress and the Supreme court and cornering Senators in elevators.
Don’t worry, none of those protesters were arrested for insurrection.
On the flip side, these same people are so enveloped in hatred, they will literally lick any Democrat’s sweaty butt crack in ritual celebration of the most ridiculous “accomplishments”, most of which are based in fan fiction, not reality. They cheer Biden’s great economy and mental acuity when neither one exists. They invent cartoon caricatures of a decrepit 81-year-old man as proof he is up to a job, one he wasn’t even capable of in his 40’s. Biden has absurdly claimed the Israel-Hamas war was started because the terrorists feared his successes in negotiating peace in the region and then claimed credit for release of Israeli hostages based on his efforts alone.
But these fictions comfort them. One begins to wonder if people like this have brains that have devolved from millions of cells into one with a single cell, only capable of reacting rather than thinking like any other single cell organism.
Under a patina of a stable and successful civilization, it certainly appears there is a significant segment of the American population that is actively devolving into pre-civilizational beasts, foaming at the mouth and incapable of living in peaceful coexistence with others – or even within themselves. Once they defeat their opposition, they quickly turn on others in their own pack, killing those determined to be weak.
These are deeply conflicted beasts with no conscience and whose drive for domination is stronger than hunger and more desperate than an immediate threat of death.
Maybe they have rabies. We should test them.
Over 20 years ago, I was struggling with several major life decisions - whether to continue being an attorney, though I sincerely loathed 98% of the attorneys I had to work with; staying in the geographical area I was at or returning closer to my family, and whether to try to keep a failed marriage going or not. I needed a place to talk through these concerns. I started seeing a psychologist. After several sessions, he stated I was different than all of his other clients - when I talked, I said, "I think" about whatever the topic was. He said all of his other clients said, "I feel..." when talking about their concerns. That comment struck me as very odd. Didn't other people think about choices that would impact their life's trajectory? I still say, "I think..." and rarely say, "I feel..." unless it's expressing genuine feelings to my family. 2 decades later and the 98% seems to have completely highjacked the 2%ers voices. Ugh. Double ugh. (now that's an expression of feeling!)
These are indeed scary times. In some ways it parallels the old west when viewed through today's eyes. Chaos, the might of the rich and powerful, and the sin of the pleasure and debauchery. For that matter you can go back in time and see other parallels too. The scene from Moses seeing the towns folk worshipping the Golden Bull idol comes to mind. And then there is the parallels to Hollywood movies such as Death Wish. And we saw glimpses of the ultimate reality in the BLM riots around the country, especially the establishment of the police free zone in Portland Oregon.
You had best be on the winning side, or you will be demolished. And even being on the winning side is no guarantee that you will survive either because once your services are no longer needed - you to will become cannon fodder.
The only right side here is on the side of God. We need to have that resurgence now more than ever. We need to adhere to HIS message and beg for HIS forgiveness. I pray it's not to late.