Paradigm Shift Ahead?
Hard to deny that something is coming. We are producing way more weird than we can consume.
I’m probably the last person qualified to opine about the Tucker Carlson vs. Fox News situation. I’m not a professional writer or pundit, I’ve been on radio a few times, never on TV (unless being caught in a camera pan in the Delta Center during a Jazz game counts). I don’t pretend to understand the cable news world where opinion hosts make 20 million plus a year or how the “power players” play.
So, I won’t try to tell you what I think is happening there.
But something is happening outside the Fox headquarters all around us, and since I live in the middle of it, I have thoughts.
I’ve watched Tucker’s Heritage 50 speech several times. Something he said set off a bunch of flashing lights in my brain.
No, seriously, it was like driving down 21st South here in Salt Lake at night and seeing block after block of those orange striped construction horses with the yellow strobes on them. “Pay attention to me!” the lights…and Tucker’s words screamed:
“None of this makes sense in conventional political terms. When people, or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people at all, which is the federal government, the largest human organization in human history decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake, “Hey, let’s tear it down,” what you’re watching is not a political movement. It’s evil.”
None of this makes sense.
I’m sure you have felt it, too, but the last few years have been surreal. Supply for weird has far outstripped demand and yet the weird production line is still working overtime.
A virus was released (or escaped) from a Chinese lab and shut down the world. Mass panic ensued and people stopped living their lives, some are still following worthless protocols. People were set against each other – sick elderly died alone, no one was allowed to go to church or funerals. That is until, of course, BLM and Antifa decided to march, riot, loot and burn stuff and all of a sudden, Bob’s your uncle!, everything was peachy keen!
A vaccine that didn’t vaccinate was mandated across the land and refusal to take it resulted in lost friendships, family relationships and careers.
The guy who stayed in his basement wearing a mask while he was alone and drew literally tens of people to his “rallies” (several times there were more press there than people), allegedly tallied 81 million votes to beat the guy who was drawing tens of thousands of standing room only people to his rallies. I would also point out that this alleged 81 million beat the most popular Democrat president in history, Barack Obama, by almost 11 million votes.
Then we woke up in a topsy-turvy Humpty Dumpty world where any word meant anything people wanted it to mean, everything was racist, intersectionality was rational, white people were all supremacists who caused all the woes in the world, men could become women by clicking the heels of their Louboutins together three times, drag queens performing for tender age children was good and proper, porn in elementary school and finding out your teacher is a binary furry was normal, crime was no longer crime, people got away with doing the exact things they accused their opposition of doing and your correctness was measured by strongly you felt about something – even if you were dead wrong.
In other words, the world had become the west wing of the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Tucker continued:
“This is not necessarily just a Christian notion, this is kind of a, I would say, widely agreed-upon understanding of good and evil. What are its products? What do these two conditions produce?
Well, I mean, good is characterized by order, calmness, tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it, lack of conflict, cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s true. It is.
And evil is characterized by their opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So, if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you’re really advocating for is evil. That’s just true.
…Those ideas won’t produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. Those are manifestations of some larger force acting upon us. It’s just so obvious. It’s completely obvious.”
Today I had a flash of insight that our absurd times might just be the darkness before dawn. It is not unusual for the losing force to commit all their men and material for one last push to break through the lines. And the postmodernist progressive movement seems to have reached its peak with the concept of transgenderism, something that can not be justified in any shape, form, or fashion without running head on into contraction after contradiction and natural law after natural law. It is based on the complete denial of obvious and irrefutable truth.
Times of great changes – paradigm level shifts in cultures and civilizations – are often preceded by periods of absurdity and chaos. One wonders if this is one of those times.
Carlson closed with this, in part:
“…maybe we should all take just 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it. I’m serious. Why not?
…even I have concluded it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will.”
Maybe we should.
At this point I don’t know what to do but pray.
Amen, Amen and Amen.