PJM| BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:
Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life.
To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free from state or tribal coercion, to be secure abroad and safe at home — only that allows cultures to be freed from the daily drudgery of mere survival.
Civilization alone permits humans to pursue sophisticated scientific research, the arts, and the finer aspects of culture.
So the great achievement of Western civilization — consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit — was to liberate people from daily worry over state violence, random crime, famine, and an often-unforgiving nature.
But so often the resulting leisure and affluence instead deluded arrogant Western societies into thinking that modern man no longer needed to worry about the fruits of civilization he took to be his elemental birthright.
As a result, the once prosperous Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Renaissance republics, and European democracies of the 1930s imploded — as civilization went headlong in reverse. We in the modern Western world are now facing just such a crisis. more
As a nation we’re being forced from the frying pan and dumped into the fire.
Out of chaos they intend on total control. They will lose but it will be very costly.
Modern history tells us that when things get bad enough you will eat your own pets.
I shudder to think.
It’s been slowly building up for at least 100 years, but it shifted into high gear with the push for homosexual marriage, 25 years ago. It’s been a rapid downhill slide since then.
HEED! Or else Ye may wake up in a nightmare like the one I once had in the middle of a very dark night many years ago, that sort of went like this:
INTO HELL
Nonetheless, he notably nictitated in paroxysms of pain and purple, all the while clicking his (or its) eyelids and retracted pupils behind a highly tattooed face and body mascara. Not only was his (or Its) HIV puss oozing out of various body cavities and analyzed orifices, the stench of the organic, greenish exudate-emitting, evaporated puss and slimy frog eggs, the metal ring shop he (or It) crudely adorned his/It’s flesh and rotting, dried and wrinkled nipples and imbued the black, embalmed night with sounds of ringing steel and cheap Chinese tubular nasal flutes and rusted wind chimes, which echoed endlessly throughout the dark-smothered alleyway of Eternity where the dead-end stop amidst an invisible emptiness howled against the silence muffled under a cacophony of stilled, chilled air.
With desperation, I jerked, swung my fist, hopelessly trying to rid myself of this grotesque organism with a body stench that surpassed any I have ever countenanced near the closeness of death and fungal putrescence of the un bathed dead.
SALVATION
Then, I awoke from this temporary Hell, of which Humanity is destined, unless they listen to God and God’s Universe and abide accordingly.
The affairs of mankind are cyclical. Always have been and always will be until the Lord comes back. There’s the “Weak men make bad times” cycle, the fact that the worst people are alwaya the best at politics, the fact that politicians inevitably suppress history so they can repeat it, and the fact that the devil who inspires them is not creative but only repeats; but at the core is the reason WHY the devil is so successful if all he does is repeat.
It comes down to this;
It is the Doom of Men that they forget.
…The devil repeats because he doesn’t NEED any new tricks. His OLD ones work just FINE on the Mark 1, Mod 1 human being. Men LOVE power, are lured by sex, chase wealth however it is currently defined, are vain, are self-centered, and are predisposed to not believe anything that they don’t WANT to. Always have been, always WILL be. Add to that the fact that each man refuses to believe that those innate weaknesses will apply to HIM, then you end up with a repeating cycle of paradises lost so ancient that the earliest parts of the 6000 year old Bible depict power corruption SO great that only a divine Flood can end it.
Man is SUPPOSED to be distict from animals because, unlike animals, he can pass generational wisdom on indefinitely, so that those not even born today can learn from his mistakes.
In theory.
In practice, people can be tortured to recant, books can be burnt, libraries can be destroyed, wrongthink declared heretical to the point that you can be beheaded for expressing what the ruling class/priest/iman/president doesn’t like until no one dare speak it.
And that’s only gotten EASIER with time.
Burning books took some effort and had bad optics. But who’s going to see or know if, for instance, the government orders this blog and all like it deleted one day? It’s just gone and no one will ever be able to “prove” it existed.
Now extend that to online versions of the Bible, the Constitution, any documentation of the evil that men do online.
Just as easy.
More insidiously it can be CHANGED. Online documentation doesn’t show Wite-Out marks. How easy to turn Bible into blasphemy in a neural net world and spew evil from the mouth of Jesus Himself!
Would the kids ever know the difference?
Would they CARE, if the difference aligns with their desires?
History has already answered.
We can’t even gather in pubs or churches to compare these things any more. The goverments have shown how easy it is to deny us our gathering places, and even when open each house of worship is stocked with its own IRS and FBI agents and their state and local analogs, ready to pounce on a pastor’s words to declare them political, “hate speech”, deny them tax exemptions at the least and arrest their pastor and encircle theit church with fencing if they cannot be brought to heel.
It is all part of a plan, and was never about a virus or anything else.
And that plan comes to bear its bitter fruit in our lifetime.
There is no hope in men.
The only hope FOR men is where it has ALWAYS been, and ever SHALL be.
The only hope for men is in the Lord.
God is greater than politics. God is greater than the devil. They’ve been trying to stomp His Word for six millennia with massive armies and the full force of ruthless, dictatorial tyrants and have failed every time. God can write His word in your heart with the pen of the Holy Spirit that even the devil himself cannot burn away. His Word is eternal, and His Kingdom shall ever triumph.
Eventually.
For His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His timeline is ever hidden from even His own Son.
“31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”
Mark 13:31-32
…This does not mean we do not fight. Evil must be challenged at every turn, defied at each new encroachment, called out at every fresh blasphemy, even at the expense of our own lives…but with the understanding that the earthy battle is one we will NOT win of our own power.
No, we fight for souls. That His untainted Word finds the ears of the next generation, and the next, and the next, that all have as much opportunity to turn to Him before the End as possible, and be numbered to His coming Kingdom when all is washed away.
That is the task of our time. We cannot win, but we are to prepare the battlefield and swell the ranks of He that CAN and He that WILL.
And to not lose faith as our times darken that evil will not win.
I apologize that this is so long and meandering, and that it seems a doomscroll at first, but the intent is to bring forth where the hope REALLY lies, and why it can lie nowhere else. And I’m writing this as much for myself as anyone else, for I too am weak, set about by the Enemy, vacillating in faith as I see evil attack even my nearest and dearest in ways I am powerless to oppose.
I HAVE to have faith, because I have literally NOTHING else.
And I suspect I am not alone.
God is great, God is good. Go thou forth and spread His Word.
Keep that before you at all times. It is the Rock that will hold long after all the vanities of man have crumbled to dust.
God Bless,
SNS
God is Great.
God is Good.
God is Merciful.
God is Just. (the just part is the scary part)
Praise God and Pray for our Redemption (not the Redemption of Christ our Savior which is a stone fact) but for the redemption of our more recent and current sins – for they are legion. Both of commission and omission. Silence is Consent. What we allow, we condone (tacitly).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Back to when life was short and brutal. Hey, at least most of my years are behind me. Today’s generation is royally screwed.
WILD BILL= You got that right. I had
68 good years because of America.These
young children will only know living HELL.
Down Down we go…