Today the subject of consumerism kept popping up. I keep thinking about how circular time is and it seems that throughout history there’s always the examples of great civilizations that meet their demise as soon as the society gets too decadent. Greece, Rome, Roaring Twenties. Good times make weak men etc
But why is that? Consumerism is what the DS uses to hypnotize people, to make them not care about the society they live in, not pay attention to the changes going on around them because they’re too busy caring about themselves.
The more you watch YouTube, the more you start consuming bc these YouTuber reviewers start helping you imagine situations you would be using said items and that’s the thought seed that gets you going and thinking “yea that would be a nice thing to have in case that happens”. Next thing you know you’re obsessed with the item. You’re thinking about it morning, noon and night. Consume consume consume. The average person who is susceptible to this hypnosis is spending his time either working to get the money to buy the thing he wants or spending his time finding the next thing to buy. Where is the time to give a shit about politics? As long as their life is not affected, they won’t unplug.
But a society must reach a certain level of prosperity before consumerism can take place. If society is at a level where you don’t even know if you’ll have a next meal, you wont care about much else and will be very involved in government to demand change.
Therefore the best point to maintain control of a society is to make sure the people have enough money to eat have a place to live and have some spending money. It’s much easier to distract people when they have some money to spend and we’re not talking a whole lot of money just needs to be slightly over “barely surviving”.
Now, you control the media/social media and you basically tell your stars what’s the next big thing for them to focus on.
The extreme preaning of men / feminization of men has happened prior to a civilizations down fall (Greek men and young boys as lovers, Men in drag in the Weimar Republic.
Narcissism also is high in a society before it’s downfall.
Sorry if it’s not very coherent. Just wanted to jot down some random thoughts. I’m sure this isn’t news to anyone but I guess I just never took the time to dissect out all these ideas.
The enemies of America have been hard at work for a century infiltrating our institutions, to weaken us. The slow burn made us complacent and turned us away from our strength- our Faith. Death by a thousand cuts.
The Great Awakening is not just the knowledge of what we are facing, but also a Great Revival and a return to a relationship with God. I believe the overturning of Roe v. Wade and a return to states rights will separate the wheat from the chaff. States like CA and NY will become cursed and states who stand for the sanctity of life will thrive. Just my thoughts.
With the right microphone I think CA and NY can straighten out. So many of these blue haired libs are just touting back what the tv/influencers are saying.
Agreed. Perhaps the tsunami I dreamed of at Deception Pass four years ago is going to be real and God may use that to wipe away the filth and send angels to save the righteous as he did in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and those who look back in hesitancy may be as pillars of salt like Lot’s wife. God promised with His rainbow that He would never again flood the whole earth. He never promised not to destroy the areas where abominations chose to twist and distort His promises into something so vile and disgusting. God must be so frustrated with us and we sure don’t deserve His grace and mercy but He did grant it to those who choose Him and repent of sin.
I had a series of intensely lucid full-color dreams which took place at Deception Pass 22 years ago. A bunch of us home schooling families were camping together when suddenly a civil defense siren began blaring. Most of the parents thought it was a test or some kind of practice drill. But somehow I knew it was signaling a nuclear missile strike. I knew God was about to destroy everything with fire...more of an apocalyptic nightmare actually.
Mine ended with me crying out to God out loud to save me and the two young children in my care or take us home and being suddenly surrounded by angels wings and lifted away from harm while the scruffy man who had tried to drive us to a safer place looked in in tears praying to God for likely the first time ever.
If you go back a ways through my posts, you will find my dream.