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45 Facts That Show How Far America Has Fallen In This Generation
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog,
What has happened to America? Please show these numbers to anyone that does not believe that the United States is in decline. It is time for all of us to humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great nation. For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different ways. The following are 45 facts that show how far America has fallen in this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far longer…
#1 According to a survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of all Americans can name the three branches of government.
#2 Only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are.
#3 Even if you include same-sex couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United States is at a 93 year low.
#4 For the first time ever, single Americans make up more than half the U.S. population.
#5 31.1 percent of American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
#6 One out of every ten teen girls in America engages in “self-harm”. Cutting and burning are the most common forms that this “self-harm” takes.
#7 One survey found that 85 percent of all young men in America and almost half of all young women in America watch porn at least once a month.
#8 A different survey discovered that 64 percent of American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month.
#9 The Internet can be used for great good, but it can also be used for great evil. It is being reported that 83 percent of U.S. boys and 57 percent of U.S. girls have been exposed to group sex while on the Internet.
#10 One survey discovered that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit sex websites while they are at work.
#11 There is an epidemic of porn watching among federal employees. For example, one Treasury Department worker said that he viewed 13,000 pornographic images within the span of six weeks because he did “not have enough work to do“.
#12 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
#13 Right now, 30 million Americans are on antidepressants.
#14 Americans account for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs.
#15 Americans consume a whopping 80 percent of all prescription painkillers.
#16 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#17 Approximately 60 million Americans have a problem with alcohol addiction.
#18 Heroin traffic in New York City is at a 20 year high.
#19 Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#20 Back in 1962, only 13 percent of all Americans were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.
#21 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.
#22 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968 after you account for inflation.
#23 Small business ownership in the United States is at the lowest level that has ever been recorded.
#24 It is hard to believe, but 56 percent of all Americans now have “subprime credit”.
#25 The United States has the most lawyers per capita in the entire world.
#26 The United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a wide margin.
#27 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the U.S. national debt has grown by more than 7 trillion dollars.
#28 During the Obama years, sexual assaults in the U.S. military have soared to an all-time high, and most of the assaults have been male on male.
#29 According to one absolutely shocking study, 22 military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single day.
#30 The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives is Nancy Pelosi. The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is John Boehner. More often than not, they seem to be working together. Is this really the best that America can do?
#31 There are more than 3 million reports of child abuse in the United States every single year.
#32 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.
#33 18 percent of all women in the United States say that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#34 According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#35 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
#36 Every single year, there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
#37 America has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world.
#38 Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD cases each year.
#39 It costs our nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#40 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
#41 In the United States today, more than half of all couples “move in together” before they get married.
#42 For couples that have children that are just “living together”, two-thirds of them split up by the time they have a child turn 10 years of age.
#43 For women under the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all babies are being born out of wedlock.
#44 It is estimated that one out of every four girls will be sexually abused before they become adults.
#45 Suicide has now actually surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of “injury death” in the United States.
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Listen. Preaching to choir.
Just wait when the ruling class will have to strike by force as their privilege as well begin to be taken away.
Top 1 reason why Michael Snyder uses annoying lists in his articles:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-list-of-reasons-why-our-brains-...
Agree 9th. If you watch carefully, Michael Snyder only offers postulates in his list (with some linking yes), but seldom can it be taken constructively, as he does not offer his views on what should remedy the issue discovered. He is the most consistently negatve Armageddon type blogger I have ever seen, and I have said so on his blog on more than one occasion. I don't mind negative when its appropriate, but I mind it after a while if there is no proposal to clear the negative point raised, or offer something positive to report. I realize that is the man's business to be this type of blogger, but to do it for as long as he has, it only illustrates his overall negativity on everything. I also agree with many of the points raised, but where I disagree is with the 'so what' aspect. In fairness, Tyler and many of the ZH audience can be held to this level of critique.
Snyder's claims about the "decline" of America are 100 years too late!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties
If you think things are crazy now, you should have been around after WWI ended!
That one had a little more morality in it than normal. Who cares about the percent having oral sex?
A bunch of hands went up on that one...
the list is rather repetative, for example 7 to 12 are more or less the same thingdifferently phrased.
There are some real shockers though, percentage of women who have been raped :-(
Allegedly.
It should only count if they report it to police.
If it's oral, it's not really sex, according to Bill Clinton.
Like he'd know real sex. Hitlery, exhibit A.
More effective than cold shower
Thomas, there is a strong correlation between oral sex and throat cancer (also mouth, tongue and larynx). Those 15-24 year olds are almost all not monogamous married couples who were chaste before marriage (no risk of transmitting STDs orally) but tarts/studs sleeping around and engaging in high risk behaviour and getting exposed to multiple strains. Look at Michael Douglas or sleezy Dimon as recent examples of the long term consequences.
It seems to me that they use lists because they can give you a new set of ads for each item in the list as you click through. I refuse to click through, when the page I go to is obviously click bait I cringe and quit reading.
Most people fail to realize that pornography re-wires the brains structure in such a way as to keep it distracted and incapable of high-level problem solving and creativity. There is plenty of (not well-publicized) research that supports the assertion. I'd have to say that part of my own great success in life is do in part to never engaging in pornographic thinking. A tremendous marriage, excellent life-long health and strength, financial success and inner-being strength, I think can only emerge out of ones lifes after longterm effort is put forth BUT, with purity of mind. Good fortune favors such a strategy... at least it has for me (and I sincerely hope so for you as well).
All that, and you named yourself after a pussy....Kat!
Sexuality is a normal human function, when abused or used too much it becomes a problem, just like anything else. Too much thinking about any subject distracts from life. Balance and moderation my friend, thats the key to happiness and success. I reccomend you spend some time thinking about your wonderful bride in a felix costume, then act on the impulses it creates, your bride might find it fun as well. Hell she my want you to wear the felix costume, think about that, kinda distracting for a moment eh?
I happen to think the previous paragraph was creative, and it solves the problems of stress, and tension in a creative new form for you.
Don't hate pornography, just keep it personal and moderated, I promise you will not loose any of your other great qualities.
Have some fun Felix! It won't stop you from solving any of life's complex problems.
Ccanuck
When you have to manufacture shame to be physically intimate with your wife, something is wrong. Healthy people don't need props.
Who said anything about shame or "have to"?
I think you had problems moderating your sexuality, you went overbord and had to work your way out of it. Then you saw it as a dangerous pit of excrement, then you lash out accusing those that enjoy the use of props as unhealthy.
Ya I can see your line of thought is the purest form of thought, all others are excrement.
GFY...you might like it.
You've pretty much proven my point. Thanks.
Congrats on never falling into that pit of excrement. Having lived that way and worked the steps to get out, I can say, regardless of "success," life is much more enjoyable without it.
Fornication is only for reproduction!
You should not enjoy it, think about it, or partake in any activity that stimulates your senses, or you will find yourself in a pit of excrement!
Ok got it Tarsubil.
I don't appreciate your gross misinterpretation. Living by your rules hasn't resulted in you coming across as someone who has found peace.
I get a piece about 3-4 times aweek...20yrs with the same woman and we still have fun ...we use pornography and toys some times too!
But now I'm gonna look for a Felix the Cat Costume...and get me some real pussy..cat!
Im glad you have found your peace, just don't judge those as unhealthy because they don't find it the way you do.
I'm as healthy and at peace as I have ever been, a lot has to do with my bride's healthy appetite for fun sex.
Felix:
"Most people fail to realize that pornography re-wires the brains structure in such a way as to keep it distracted and incapable of high-level problem solving and creativity. There is plenty of (not well-publicized) research that supports the assertion."
I would love to see the double blind studies you claim exist; especially against, say, watching sitcoms or the Khardashians. Watching too much of anything could lead to your wires getting crossed.
If you have ever seen your wife naked or desired her or copulated in anything other than the missionary position, someone might claim you are a pornographer.
Claiming some high moral ground for your claimed success is a bit cheeky. For me pornography is in the eye of the beholder. Just don't scare the horses.
K
Kayman
Who needs empirical evidence?
Just ask Felix da Kat how his life is going.... And ooh la la… There’s your answer.
Smoke another one, brah!
Fellix was once mostly an innocent cartoon character.
http://yourbrainonporn.com/
BTW, does #8 include Doom Porn?
What brought this up? Do you spend all of your time thinking about pornography?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZwJiK0fJ0
When 60's hippies attack......who put these people in charge?
Oh...that's right. YES WE CAN!!!
I knew in the 60's it wasn't going to turn out well. All that bullshit was cover for narcissism and/or white guilt.
Fine.
Now explain the much deeper, severe and entrenched problems with your wholly fucked up demographic.
#18 Heroin traffic in New York City is at a 20 year high.
Afghanistan.
is living with someone instead of getting married a better moral choice around here?
missed one - there's a lot more gay people than 43 years ago...
I guess that information comes right from Hannity.
Same number of gheys, they just are more open about it. Its called "coming out of the closet."
Change the channel.
We'd rather hear it from Ed Shultz....but he keeps getting bumped off cause his ratings suck.
No, it's about a LGBT lifestyle choice, which is not necessarily an indicator of a genetic anomaly.
my wife has a friend who I swear is trying to turn her boy homo. like it will somehow prove her level of lbgt acceptance. poor kid is gonna have some serious issues....
Run that list by any living POTUS. We know.
sex and drugs. Who would've thought?
While rock 'n roll went underground...
Living together before marriage? How scandalous.
Things are going down hill. The sexually transmitted disease percentage was quite disturbing. Plus the out-of-wedlock births is no picnic either. Solution? Time for us all to live in caves and draw on the rock walls. Problem solved.
The problem with #41 is #42.
If you want to examine the myraid ways the system has been set up to incentivize women to do such things, go ahead. otherwise, your analysis is a bit lacking
And yet neither it or incest is the "original sin". Eating a non-GMO apple is. Same as it ever was.
#46 The Kardashian Kids
#47 Too many former GOP "W" lovers. Now known as "ZHers" - next year back to the GOP. Then back to the Tea Party.
You guys are too smart for your own good.
What are you, like the thread fluffer or what?
lOL. enjoying your ripostes.
Troll.
Or Steve Liesman.
I can't spot the difference.
I can recommend something for those pustules.
No, #46 is the amount of time we spend on the Internet.
You. Me. Guilty, I tell you!
The Uni-Bomber may of had it right. I would say a good 2/3rd's of those problems are related to the internet and its technological derivatives -
I have wondered about this as well.
I'm against violence as a solution to all problems except in the case of direct personal self-defense. I don't have any desire to hurt anyone. I think any violence by anyone anywhere only creates more hatred and further violence. It will never solve anything, no matter who uses it. There are no "good guys", ever, if those people use violence to attempt to affect political change. I am absolutist in that. So for me, the following are all thought experiments.
That said, why do people view the uni-bomber as unusually bad? They say it's because he was attacking "innocent people". He chose his targets because he felt that the work they were doing was contributing to the destruction of humanity. That the systems they created degraded our existence. Is his motivation worse than that of our government, who believes radical Islam is a threat to the moral foundation of secular liberalism?
Here's another question for you: ISIS is now viewed as the devil incarnate because they are attacking "innocent journalists". What makes journalists so innocent? Are not the stories that those men are contributing to equally damaging as the bullets which it is in fact their stories which are inspiring? They can be directly linked into the chain of violence in the region. Why should they be spared the effects of their ideas? I have no idea if they are right or wrong, but just because they are journalists does not a priori make them innocent. That concept is very western.
Just a question of what is "innocence". Things to think about,
@SofaPapa
I upvoted your post. It's fun to read posts where people think outside the box.
A friend of mine was on the unibomber's hit list when Ted got picked up. My friend was just a generic chemist at UC Berkeley, doing nothing out of the ordinary.
"...generic chemist at UC Berkeley..." Just a cog in the machinery you might say. Stop one gear and the whole machine goes down. Besides, who says that ANYBODY at UCB is innocent of anything, including the students! Just a little tongue-in-cheek there...
> It will never solve anything...
Juvenile drivel. What exactly is there that needs to be solved? Life and its mysteries? They will only be solved by death and extinction of humanity (or reduction of humanity to a routine and predictable variety of flower). Until then, there will be violence and it ought to be celebrated.
Here's one man's opinion of inocence-- set to music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdUhHn-3yH8
and the lyrics...
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tool/intolerance.html
Those journalists were not innocent. They had intelligence connections. They were dual nationals.
T he Uni-Bomber !! you're nuts, man. really, nuts.
My 23 yr old son who grew up on hydroplanes , muscule cars as a kid has returned from college. Now working at our family biz that he worked thru high school yrs . Because his first job cut his hrs. Took him out to some new property I just bought along a small river. A trolling motors was a struggle for him. Got to undo a lot of shit I just paid for ps all you down voters he's a good kid and has told me about all the heroin that's the in thing so fuck you
Dink more tonic with it.
What a retard author. He includes porn stats like its bad. There is a well established correlation between more beating off and lower rates of rape and sexual assault. The author even argues against blowjobs. He really needs a girlfriend or a friend in general.
No doubt. I can't believe your post actually has more junks than ups. I'd like to know exactly how viewing pornography proves the US has declined? I'm not denying it hasn't but Jesus H. fucking Christ it isn't because people watch porn once a week. Get real.
I have to believe that misinfo agents are the ones skewing votes like that to make ZHers look out of touch. Theres no way half the people on this site would consider viewing pornography a problem. The vast majority of us (by the stats above) watch it ourselves!
I always used to say, they should just sell cigarettes in 5 or 10 packs, because 20's a frickin habit. Cant just have a smoke, gotta have a whole shitload of them.
"One's too many and a thousand aint enough" -Dave Mustaine
Its the habit that's the problem, not the singluar act.
The problem is that most people believe they are morally obligated to run everyone else's lives.
That is, everyone else should survive the way they themselves envision survival.
Partially. The other part is the complete morons masqeurading as people that wouldn't last a day without someone telling them what to do. Whether they got that way on their own or "had a little help" is a different debate.
The reason he's got more downs than ups, is that everyone on ZH these days is such a tightass these days. They probably haven''t beat off in months. People need to loosen up.
Off the porn topic, but the basic lesion which yielded Modern America occurred when the Democrats transitioned from the Party of the Farmer and the Little Guy under William Jennings Bryan, to become just four years later the (second) Party of Elite Finance under Wilson, with the Federal Reserve, IRS and Interventionist Overseas War. The 100 years since that point have just been a footnote.
,..when the Democrats transitioned from the Party of the Farmer and the KKK,...
-there, fixed it for you.
Yea this author is retarded. He always posts these lists saying "N facts that prove there's something wrong America" in which he spews a bunch of his stupid moral ideas and dubious survey results and claims that the world is now more doomed than ever before. Only worth reading if you want a laugh (like 75% of heavily biased, sensational, and illogical ZH articles).
Face the facts, dude.
"There is a well established correlation between more beating off and lower rates of rape and sexual assault."
It's funny, how people who rave and rant about the ills of the mainstream propaganda suddenly fall in line when it touches on something that's dear to them.
There's actually a proved correlation between porn viewing and higher rates of sexual assault. Unlike what the big-business porn propaganda tells you, porn induces a degraded vision of sexuality - it makes it into a relationship based on cold domination/sadism - which translates into more sexual assaults, as the porn viewer becomes less and less able to relate to a partner on an equal footing. Some male porn addicts cannot even bring themselves to look at women in the eyes, so what about targeting a weak one in the neighborhood? Or your shy and pretty 14 years-old niece, back at your brother's place?
Three links amongst many. The third one is of particular interest, as it features interviews with police detectives.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8499409/Internet-porn-en...
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1218097/posts
Why do you think arrested sex offenders are invariably found in possession of porn material? some sort of unfortunate coincidence?
Michael Snyder may go too far when he demonizes oral sex, but because he says one stupid thing doesn't mean the rest is wrong.
You are clearly some religious fuckstick.
Why do they find porn on a sexual offenders computer?
Answer : Because everyone fucking watches it.
God you uptight Jesus freaks need to hang yourselves.
America hasn't been a great country period since it was founded then it was all downhill from there, some 300 years ago ah who cares. We're all gonna end up six feet under, all these doesn't matter.
Mostly, the U.S. was founded by tobacco farmers with lots of slaves. Slaves are gone as well as most of the tobacco. What do you expect?
The problem started when the Brits were kicked out. Canada's doing alright, so are Ozzies, NZers, etc.
And America was finished off by a tobacco smoking slave owned by old rich white guys and gals.
After today I'm pretty much resigned to taking the blue pill...
Viagara?? (that's a blue pill - with "interesting effects"!!)
I take that, it keeps me from rolling out of bed.
Are those any good? Have you got any spare ones?
Other than this stuff, everything is ducky.
USA! USA!
What has happened to America?
Progressives.
Coletrane,
What has happened to America?
Demographic and productivity growth in a finite planet.
Progressives destroyed the Democrat Party - the Party of Jefferson.
The Republicans destroyed themselves.
The Republicans destroyed themselves.
Yeah, turns out most of them are progressives as well. Ask any of those guys what a conservative is.....they couldn't tell you.
Well let's be clear.
It certainly isn't a Libertarian.
Insane McCain and Little Linda Graham are Progresives?
Yes. They represent the Warfare Wing of Leviathan's Warfare/Welfare architecture.
WINNER!!!
At least progressives don't care about watching porn and jacking off...
My sister makes $675,487,981 an hour by working on the internet reading Zerohedge. You can too........
Missed out the important bits - "In the Future, my sister WILL make . . . . . .". The soon-approaching future whre the US dollar has died, along with what's left of the Global "economy".
where is the link telling us how to do it too?
You left out iPhone 6.
..and its zombified operatives.
i-Drones.
Our future in two past quotes:
"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction,
should it come at all, will be from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government."
- Daniel Webster
Yep; that about wraps it up, alright.
Except this isn't what is happening.
The Debt Money Monopoly figured out how to dupe the American political illiterati by lying to them and robbing them and the average schmuck not only goes along with it THEY DEFEND IT!
Chit that sounds good and is pushed by the Bankster looters isn't necessarily right!
Trillions of dollars has been looted under the false pretense of a "War on Poverty."
The average citizen is like small child who has had his candy taken away but is so developmentally disabled it doesn't know enough to cry.
"For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback." Michelle 'Eat Your Peas' Obama
"For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country...
Interesting. Admits up front that she has never actually been proud of her country. Obama is very proud of his. The only problem is that it is Kenya.
It's not her country and she doesn't belong here.
and, in additiion to this problem, is the problem, that she is never going to have a Mentally Adult Life.
Because adults are held accountable for their actions. She isn't.
How dare you! Why don't you go back to New York, Ya God damn hippie faggot!
http://videosift.com/video/David-Cross-on-the-Tea-Baggers?loadcomm=1
These hipster losers should be happy, they are the American mainstream but are too stupid to even know it.
The pendulum will swing back eg neo-victorian , neo-puritan , etc .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2006/10/god-wills-and-i-obey.html
on a meme structure that will probably evolve to fit a new age , the Neo-Age .
Else extinction .
Doubt if the monkeys will go out with the style and gravitas of the dinosaurs.
"Extinction with Distinction " should be the epitaph for the anthropocene .
Go long on puritan rap music. Victoria's secret is sort of victorian.
What's this nonsense doing in a blog for intelligent people?
>>>The pendulum will swing back eg neo-victorian , neo-puritan , etc .
President-for-Life Ted Cruz will rule firmly, but fairly.
/s
HEY merika is still #1 in American Football
Listen. But aren't they teaching the lil 'merican bundles of joy not to play with "FULL" contact?
I dunno, sounds like soccer? They even got that wrong. Poor 'merica.
And no one else has ever one the World Series.
Toronto almost did, but to prevent that the MLB went on strike.
Moronocracy: A Country run by the Genius Elites,
Created and Perfected for the absolute control and enslavement of Morons.
Millions of Morons.
BTW, Zerohedge short changed us by 5-!!!
50 Facts That Show How Far America Has Fallen In This Generation
So what's the bad news?
Saudi Arabia anyone? No Fucking Way!
The trend down is consistent over decades and generations. Imagine from your own experiences how American demographics will be in 10 to 20 years. South africa with gated communities looks like a model.
There's still hope the USSA could wind up as Brazil 2.0. Won't be going to the moon, but won't be collapsing into a savage orgy of disease, murder, Idiocracy and starvation either. Or at least, not as fast, or, dammit.. I'll say it again..
The USSA does not have a future.
Where we're going will make Yugoslavia and Lebanon look like a Sunday brunch. History has no conscience, only a long memory. All that has been done, shall be done again. Mother Nature has no qualm feeding you to her other children, whither snake, shark, virus or human. She may be beautiful, but never merciful. And Ye have been made in her image.
If you believe in selection, your paradise awaits you, now. You feel it now, even in your opulence, breathing down your neck. You know it, even now, in the uneasy comfort of your trappings. This shall not last. You will be tested.
I will not presume the judgement of the gods. Only that they shall judge. Only that they shall separate. The meek shall inherit the afterlife. The strong must endure the torment of their enemies. And I ask you, when has it ever been different?
Can't we all just get along? No. There is a mountain of skulls to attest the folly of your fantasies. They silently profess what you would rather not acknowledge. Look away, then. The skulls remain. Persist in folly, and ye shall surely join them.
I still have hope for change.
If it's 180 degrees from this crap.....I'm for it too.
What has happened to America?
Two words: Blankfein and Dimon.
As you know, q99X2,
it was before them,
and way bigger than those guys!
I went through the financial crisis of 2008 and all I was left with was this lousy t-shirt.
The way things are going you will be nouveau riche.
#8 A different survey discovered that 64 percent of American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month.
Bunch of F'n jackoffs. How we going to beat the NWO with a crowd of monkeys like this.
FWIW, I watched a commentary show on TV a few nights ago. It had a segment that addressed the fact that nobody was interested in the media anymore. One of the guests tried to mention something about media serving the interests of the very few but he was being talked over and nobody would be able to make that out. After cutting off the guests who offered little insight, the host proceeded to share his "preconceived wisdom" so as to enlighten everyone. He claimed it is because the media got nasty at some point. :-) If that alone isn't enough to realize what a joke TV is, then.........
While the numbers of those that see the light are increasing on a daily basis, it is still too slow. The NWO can move much more quickly and always be 1-2 "scams" ahead of the game. The only hope is through an "app" with qualities that help it go viral. Use the very tech that enslaves people to set them free.
Looks like the americans are addicted to sex and drugs and rock and roll, and overspending for the addictions. What's new? The only thing different from 50 years ago is the internet. Conclusion: Al Gore's fault
I have no problem with sex drugs and rock and roll, I do however have a problem with people deciding that I need to pay for their lifestyle choices...
Which lifestyle choices do you not like paying for, or which ones do you feel that you are currently paying for right now?
Just curious.
EBT cards drawing money from ATM's at casino's and strip clubs should give you a hint.
76% of men admit that they would watch less porn if women weren't so fucking crazy and actually opened their legs once and a while after you marry them.
Best comment of the night
Do married gay people have the same problom?
Give us a shoutout bitchez!
Since the basic driving mechanism has been the successful application of the methods of organized crime to dominate the political processes, so that there were created vicious spirals of legalized lies, backed with legalized violence, which enabled the profits from legalized frauds to be reinvested in more frauds, ALL OF THOSE DECLINE AND FALL FACTS ARE DUE TO THE RULING CLASSES SUCCESSFULLY TAKING CONTROL OVER THE POWERS OF "WE THE PEOPLE" TO USE THOSE POWERS TO ENSLAVE.
One could rightly say that the creation of the Federal Reserve Board was the single most symbolic event in the history of the best organized gang of criminals taking control over the powers of government. The dumbing down of Americans through the mass media and public school systems have all been a deliberate agenda in an overall war against the consciousness of those being ruled over by those who ruled over them.
That process of the runaway triumph of legalized lies, backed up by legalized violence, throughout every social and political institution, has been on an exponential growth curve for more than a Century. The fundamental structure of the debt slavery system necessarily and automatically drove that debt slavery to generate numbers which became debt insanities. All the way along, every other aspect of the overall political and social systems were driven by the fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems towards deliberately waging a war against the consciousness of the vast majority of people, conducted by the ruling classes, while the vast majority of people were never even aware of the degree that there was that war against their consciousness, because that war became more and more socially successful, as the vast majority of "We the People" were reduced to "Zombie Sheeple."
That did NOT happen by accident, and it is a profound mistake to blame the individuals, when, for generation after generation, they have been adapting to live inside systems of social slavery, which rewarded agreeing with absurd lies, while punishing those who did not agree with absurd lies. Moreover, how far Americans have fallen in this generation is NOTHING compared to how much further they are going to fall in the next generation, since the overall debt slavery driving debt insanity is still on its inherent exponential growth curve, as the take over of the powers of government by bigger lies, backed by more violence, is automatically getting worse, faster ...
The assassination of politicians that could not be bribed or intimidated has paved the way for one false flag attack after another to be able to start war after war, all based on deceits, in order to back up the debt slavery systems. The foreseeable future for future generations of Americans is most probably going to be democidal martial law. The current trends are towards the conditions being deliberately driven towards Americans being mass murdered, and mass murdering each other.
If one seriously looks at what the ruling classes have been actually doing, and actually preparing to do, then there is no reasonable doubt that their plans are to continue to conduct their agenda of deliberately destroying the American democratic republic and the rule of law. "Democracy" is already practically dead! The meanings of words have been inverted. The ruling classes have already secured a social system in which they can count on being able to fool enough of the people enough of the time.
The elections are puppet shows put on by the mass media for the masses of muppets, while the voting systems are already overwhelmingly rigged. There was never any time in history when any previous generation of Americans since President Andrew Jackson when the people's representatives were able to to resist the international banksters, and that episode was only possible because Jackson almost miraculously survived the banksters' attempts to assassinate him.
The ability of the ruling classes to bribe, intimidate, and assassinate the people's representatives prepared the path towards the destruction of the democratic republic's rule of law. The ruling classes now have been able to routinely get away with bigger and bigger crimes, and one false flag attack started war, or wars based on deceits, after another, over and over and over again, for generation after generation. That automatically got worse faster, at the same time as the basic debt slavery got worse faster, at an exponential rate.
As far as I can tell, there is no practical point in learning about any of those social facts, and the history of how they developed, because no rational evidence nor logical arguments is going to have any significant effect upon the runaway systems of debt slavery backed by wars based on deceits. There seems to be no good reasons to doubt that the next generation of Americans is going to see the social facts continue to get worse faster.
The degree to which the ruling classes have successfully waged a war against the consciousness of those they rule over means that the vast majority of Americans have become political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple, that will continue to be fleeced to exhaustion, and then slaughtered. I WISH that I could come to any better conclusions. However, I am not aware of any good grounds to doubt that the runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut is not going to turn most Americans into its road kill. The fascist police state set to impose democidal martial law has already been created, using the excuses of false flag attacks to drive the self-fulfilling prophesy of the "war on terror." That fascist police state was already advanced substantially by the previous "war on drugs" which was also a war based on deceits, which was designed to become a self-fulfilling prophesy, to create more organized crime, which would end up benefiting the ruling classes, as the biggest banks skimmed off the cream of the illegal profits, while the lower levels of organized crime flourished, in order to justify ever more fascist police state powers.
At no time in the past was it ever practically possible to stop the runaway triumph of deceits backed by destruction controlling civilization. There was never any practical way to prevent the best organized gangs of criminals from capturing control over the government. The systems of enforced frauds that dominated Americans automatically became worse faster. The school systems were thoroughly corrupted by those who could use their financial advantages to influence those schools. The same things happened to the mass media, and every other social institution that one examines.
The overall tragic trajectory is that the foreseeable future will see cultural conditions deliberately driven towards provoking democidal martial law, in circumstances where the vast majority of Americans end up mass murdering each other. That deterioration will be taken advantage of by the ruling classes, which have been working towards making that happen.
All of those statistics in this article above should be seen as symptoms of the ways that "the fish rots from the head." The most important factor was the funding of the political processes, which included not only bribery and intimidation, but, more importantly, the assassination of politicians that refused to become puppets of the ruling classes. The average American today is surviving inside of social slavery systems which have been getting automatically worse faster for several generations.
What is worse is that there are no good reasons to doubt that pattern is going to continue to get exponentially worse for future generations in the foreseeable future. There is barely any real resistance, that does not come from controlled opposition groups, which continue to operate inside of the same bullshit frame of reference as the established systems already do. The controlled opposition groups in America continue to promote old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies, and their related impossible ideals, as the "solutions" to the problems that the majority of Americans have, despite the obvious history that such impossible ideals always actually make the opposite happen in the real world.
I can not believe in any better theory of intellectual scientific revolution, because the majority of Americans have already been reduced to such brain-dead Zombie Sheeple that they could not adequately understand the theory of better scientific revolution, nor do they feel like they want to. Therefore, the only genuine solutions are practically impossible.
Without a prodigious series of technological and even bigger political miracles, then the most probable future for Americans will be that their ruling classes will continue to control their culture towards starting more genocidal wars abroad, while finally imposing democidal martial law at home. Indeed, when that finally happens, then things might finally get interesting, because the situation will go seriously out of control of even the ruling classes.
Personally, I like to day dream of the opportunities within those crises for there to become some significant real opportunities for more radical revolution, within which context intellectual scientific revolution should play the central role. However, I also recognize at the same time how much those times will be manifesting Peak Insanities, which will make the list of statistics cited above look like the good old days, compared to what is most probably going to happen in the foreseeable future.
The “Peak Insanities” of Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979), it appears from Snyder's list, have manifested.
As Marcuse of the infamous Frankfurt School of Western Marxist critical theory and founder of the New Left put it before his death: “stoned hippies make lousy soldiers and will not oppose your aggression elsewhere throughout the globe,” i.e., disarm them through a combination of sex and drugs.
Said ol’ Herb: “you can neutralize the best and brightest on the campuses (with the poisoned candy of drugs and sex packaged in an attractive musical coating) so they don’t really think about what you are doing…
“There will still be plenty of poor and uneducated people to use as cannon fodder.” According to a critic, Marcuse left behind the notion of tolerance that accepts “anything from the left, but silences the right.”
From Marcuse.org:
“On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 76 people in a bombing and a shooting spree in Norway. Hours beforehand, he released a 1500 page manifesto, outlining his thoughts and actions for the world to see. Herbert figures prominently in several places in that manuscript, available as a website ebook, and a 1518-page-pdf (easily searchable). Some excerpts:
‘Marcuse preached the “Great Refusal,” a rejection of all basic Western concepts, sexual liberation and the merits of feminist and black revolution. His primary thesis was that university students, ghetto blacks, the alienated, the asocial, and the Third World could take the place of the proletariat in the Communist revolution. In his book An Essay on Liberation, Marcuse proclaimed his goals of a radical transvaluation of values; the relaxation of taboos; cultural subversion; Critical Theory; and a linguistic rebellion that would amount to a methodical reversal of meaning. As for racial conflict, Marcuse wrote that white men are guilty and that blacks are the most natural force of rebellion.’"
Marcuse was born in Berlin to Carl Marcuse and Gertrud Kreslawsky. His family was Jewish.
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/booksabout/haters/haters.htm
When I was young, I grew up with mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology being my primary education. Therefore, when I eventually read the authors known as "the Frankfurt School" I thought most of their writing was gobbledegook. However, at the same time, my approach to morality is radically different than yours appears to be JR, since I have no respect for traditional moralities, other than as sources of raw ore to smelt, to attempt to find whatever may still be useful, after taking away as much of the rest of the conditions why some particular people tended to believe those, in their times and places.
I certainly was one of those "hippies" that greatly enjoyed doing lots of psychedelic drugs back in those days. However, my basic view then, which continues now, even more so, is that the development of weapons of mass destruction had made almost everything regarding our civilization become criminally insane. Thousands of years of being able to win wars had suddenly become a situation where everyone would lose.
When it comes to morality, my view of the world is that our society almost totally operates through a Bizarro Mirror World perception, in which almost everything is perceived backwards and distorted, while most people do not understand that they are seeing everything backwards. When it comes to proposing "solutions" almost everything I have to recommend is pretty well the total opposite to what the vast majority of people propose, on the basis of various false fundamental dichotomies and their related impossible ideals. Therefore, I tend to embrace everything from the murder systems, on through whatever expressions of power via sex, or whatever else. In my view, the better ways to develop superior dynamic equilibria are not to attempt to suppress things.
Since I believe that all human realities are necessarily organized lies operating robberies, and that is true for sexual politics, just as much as for all other politics, that perception of the actual mechanisms whereby things operate transforms the way to work towards more ideal goals. I regard the source of all morality as the principle of the conservation of energy. I regard evolutionary ecologies as the ways and means that energy systems developed. I regard human moralities has being things which evolve, depending upon their environmental conditions. My efforts to gain a better overview of the human systems tends to prevent me from favouring any particular components of those systems. Therefore, when it comes to the current runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, and its fascist police state, my recommendations are to retool that, in order to accomplish its purposes better, not to try to "stop" those.
Similarly, I take the universal attitude of the goals of greater uses of information, enabling higher consciousness, regarding the human moralities which were originally dependent upon biology. Just as the development of atomic energy has totally transformed the ways that we should think about the world, from the basic concepts of time and space, to the political problems created by atomic bombs, so too, the cracking of the DNA code, and everything else related through molecular biology to understanding evolution as the manifestation of energy systems, also should transform everything that we think and do with respect to human biology, and the moralities that were original based upon that human biology.
As you can see, JR, I have no use for traditional moralities, except as things to pound upon, to see what is left after pounding on them. I embrace the divine paradox that energy is conserved, as it directs its own transformations, and that human beings can not stop that, but only participate in that process. Therefore, I regard human cultures as emerging out of the biological history of natural selection. However, the parameters of that natural selection have been radically transformed by progress in basic sciences, from physics to biology. Therefore, none of the previous systems of artificial selection are things which I have much respect for (other than the scientific methods.) However, at the same time, I tend to have even less respect for the goofy criticisms of those who deliberately refuse to think through how and why those previous moralities became the dominate behaviors, given certain historical conditions.
Indeed, I too tend to study "Critical Theory; and a linguistic rebellion that would amount to a methodical reversal of meaning." However, I carry that through mathematical physics, which does that many orders of magnitude beyond what anyone in the Frankfurt School ever dreamt of. When I was a kid, one of my many nick names was the deliberately oxymoronic "King of the Hippies." However, I always tended to dislike what I regarded as stupid "radicals," and their superficial notions regarding "revolution," including their alleged "sexual revolutions."
In general, I keep on saying that there is NO way to go backwards. There is no way to return to old-fashioned religions or ideologies, as the source of realistic solutions to our problems. Rather, the only way is to continue to go forward, even though that probably mostly means going through severe social storms and the psychotic breakdowns of the established systems. In my view, that applies to human biology based moralities and family relationships, just as much as it applies to everything else, if not more so.
My basic themes are always that progress in science and technology will necessarily blow away all of the currently established social and political systems, and their related moralities. What I always recommend is to attempt to do a more creative synthesis of post-modernizing science with ancient mysticism, in order to attempt to cope with the facts like that human beings have cracked the DNA code, and therefore, are enabled to do genetic engineering, which has utterly exploded all of the old-fashioned parameters of biological limits, that previously dictated the various sorts of sexual politics and family relationships.
My view is that all of the old stuff is being destroyed. The guys who specialized in "order out of chaos" are driving that process onwards, obviously. However, my goals tend to be to push things past where they would have otherwise have stopped, because in my view they too are still too old-fashioned. Whatever used to be the sexual politics and family relationships before cracking the DNA code, and therefore, being able to engage in genetic engineering, etc., demands a radically different way to think about moralities, and in my view, that means what I said above, that we should regard all moralities as being derived from the ways that the conservation of energy manifests through energy systems.
When I read your comments JR, I consistently perceive that you do deeper research, however, you also seem to continue to gravitate back to your own primary processes, as value judgments regarding those situations which you are working at more thoroughly researching. However, I am not exaggerating when I assert that my primary process languages were that of mathematical physics, chemistry and biology, and that, therefore, those are my values, which guide my value judgments, regarding the issues that I am interested in researching.
The ironic political situation that we are in is the double whammy of our society becoming more and more based on science and technology, while the majority of people have become even more urban barbarians that use that technology without much comprehension of how it works. Indeed, that appears to include the people who control the various weapons of mass destruction too! Thus, the great paradox of our times is that prodigious progress in basic science and technology is taking place through social systems based on backing up lies with violence, in which the established moralities are about the maximum possible bullshit that is possible.
Developing a more scientific morality, and especially a more scientific ponerology, or a more scientific study of evil, is taking place inside that context, where more and more we DO have a society in which science and technology are IMPORTANT. Therefore, the philosophy science should be the most important thing for a technologically based society. However, actually, our society is controlled by a jangled, jumbled up mess of old-fashioned religions and ideologies, all promoted by various shades of fanatics, with the state religions of the monetary system and national security being the most completely crazy of all, with the ruling classes appearing to still believe in the most old-fashioned and obsolete religions and ideologies. Meanwhile, most the people they rule over are tending to have been thrown into a blender, set to frappe the shit out of them.
There is no doubt that we are living in interesting times, when the first generation ever born to grow up with atomic bombs and genetic engineering is still alive today. So far, despite those technologies being trillions of times more powerful and capable, and quite credibly headed towards quadrillions of times, most of the madness in the world can be seen as the established systems attempting to change the minimum that they can, in order to stay the same.
Of course,that trend is another basic feature of general energy systems, found from Le Chatelier's Principle in chemistry, to Romer's Rule in evolutionary biology. Our social and political systems are attempting to exploit technologies which are trillions of times more powerful, through the same old-fashioned social and political systems, with their associated moralities. Ironically, since the vast majority of people, including both the ruling classes, as well as those they rule over, tend to deliberately ignore the philosophy of science, even while they exploit the technologies provided by those sciences, the mismatch between a technologically based society, and its political systems, and related moralities, is getting bigger and BIGGER ... AND, IS SURELY GOING TO GET WAY BIGGER!
From a practical political perspective, what is far more popular are profoundly stupid, deliberate ignorance, favourings of old-fashioned religions and ideologies. That political fact makes it practically useless to promote the kinds of intellectual scientific revolutions that society "should" be going through to cope with realities, such as globalized electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs. Obviously, that is NOT happening. Similarly, there is no doubt that more than 99% of psychology is actually applied to make people become more insane, rather than saner, because the ruling classes want to keep control over others, through maintaining the systems of lies backed by violence, resulting in attitudes of ignorance and fear. Similarly, most of chemistry, etc., actually gets employed within the established political economy to fulfill the stupidest and most evil possible purposes, such as the ways that the potential for genetic engineering actually ended up being deployed in GMOs by corporations such as Monsanto, which is one of the corporations which has the most evil purposes of any corporation on the planet at the present time.
Since the monetary system is based on triumphant enforced frauds, there are things like the profit from disease systems, and profit from junk food systems, everywhere one looks, which explain lots of the deeper reasons for the list of problems presented in this article by Snyder. The runaway PEAK INSANITIES are most of all due to the growing gap between science and technology being applied through social pyramid systems which are based on rulers using lies and violence to control those they rule over by keeping them ignorant and afraid. It is not now clear how bad that contradiction can get, however, as my previous comment above outlined, I expect it to get WAY WORSE, FASTER!
Hey Radical, what happened, milk and cookies keep you awake? Lots of good material here. I wish I could give you some reason to be more optimistic about the human condition, but sadly, I am for the most part in your corner. So, mon frere, do not feel like you are alone with your thoughts. Many others share them and wish that only they could put them on paper as well as you.
The only remaining hope for our continuance is a catharsis of such magnitude that the horror of it scares people into accepting their responsibilities. We do still have a small chance at getting through this coming trial without killing the planet. For my part, I am past the stage of prosletyzing. I only broach this topic with people that are awake and want to learn. Humanity stands on a razors edge. We cannot abandon hope and we must prepare to fight because the fight will be brought to us.
I'm really glad that so many fine people such as yourself come to ZH and get to be heard.
Thanks, messymerry!
Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn suffered Hell in Godless Soviet Russia. He came to America to seek God and, instead, found Hell. A devout Christian who was disgracefully snubbed by Washington when he took up temporary domicile here, he left the United States a discouraged man.
But God did not desert Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
On his return to Russia, he found Vladimir Putin whose governing ideology is based on “a long-standing, deeply rooted Russian nationalist ideology, one closely bound to the Orthodox Christian faith.”
Putin’s Christian Russia is now facing Obama’s Pagan America. I have no doubt of the outcome.
For the war between Putin’s Russia and the West “is not with rockets,” as Pat Buchanan explained. “It is a cultural, social, moral war where Russia’s role, in Putin’s words, is to ‘prevent movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.’"
Haven’t the New York bankers done enough to the Russian people by providing the seed money for Lenin’s communist takeover without now attempting to destroy Putin? Are they never to be satisfied?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn understood them and their role in setting the world down the path to Godless serfdom – their Communist “new world order.” Here is the conclusion of his speech delivered June 8, 1978, at Harvard University.
A World Split Apart (conclusion) ::
But one must be blind in order not to see that oceans no longer belong to the West, while land under its domination keeps shrinking. The two so-called world wars (they were by far not on a world scale, not yet) have meant internal self-destruction of the small, progressive West which has thus prepared its own end. The next war (which does not have to be an atomic one and I do not believe it will) may well bury Western civilization forever.
Facing such a danger, with such splendid historical values in your past, at such a high level of realization of freedom and of devotion to freedom, how is it possible to lose to such an extent the will to defend oneself?
How has this unfavorable relation of forces come about? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does not seem so. The West kept advancing socially in accordance with its proclaimed intentions, with the help of brilliant technological progress. And all of a sudden it found itself in its present state of weakness.
This means that the mistake must be at the root, at the very basis of human thinking in the past centuries. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression from the period of the Enlightenment. It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists.
The turn introduced by the Renaissance evidently was inevitable historically. The Middle Ages had come to a natural end by exhaustion, becoming an intolerable despotic repression of man's physical nature in favor of the spiritual one. Then, however, we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal. This new way of thinking, which had imposed on us its guidance, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man nor did it see any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend to worship man and his material needs. Everything beyond physical well-being and accumulation of material goods, all other human requirements and characteristics of a subtler and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life did not have any superior sense. That provided access for evil, of which in our days there is a free and constant flow. Merely freedom does not in the least solve all the problems of human life and it even adds a number of new ones.
However, in early democracies, as in the American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual could be granted boundless freedom simply for the satisfaction of his instincts or whims. Subsequently, however, all such limitations were discarded everywhere in the West; a total liberation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. State systems were -- State systems were becoming increasingly and totally materialistic. The West ended up by truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically selfish aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the 19th Century.
As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."
This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.
The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.
I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness.
To such consciousness, man is the touchstone in judging everything on earth -- imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We are now experiencing the consequences of mistakes which had not been noticed at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests suffocate it. This is the real crisis. The split in the world is less terrible -- The split in the world is less terrible than the similarity of the disease plaguing its main sections.
If humanism were right in declaring that man is born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot be unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding. It is not possible that assessment of the President's performance be reduced to the question how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.
It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment. Social dogmatism leaves us completely helpless in front of the trials of our times. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? Is it right that man's life and society's activities have to be determined by material expansion in the first place? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to the detriment of our spiritual integrity?
If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge: We shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.
This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but -- upward.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm
JR, I agree with your take on Russian history.
Obviously, when Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism" that was actually hypocritical bullshit, since "the New York bankers done enough to the Russian people by providing the seed money for Lenin’s communist takeover." There was never any genuine "communism" in Russia. The USSR was based on lies backed by violence, with the bullshit ideology of "communism" being its insane state religion.
I think that Putin is now fighting fire with fire against the Western banksters running the Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire, as is China, and many other places that were previously conquered, and assimilated, but thereby learned enough to now be able to do similar things just as well as the Western world, as far as technology goes.
Personally, I have no use for Crazy Christians, and their obsolete moralities. I despise people whose morality is supposed to be based on some special inside track to "god." I dislike the entire Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions equally for being religious fanatics who believe their bullshit somehow comes from "god." (It does, but only in the sense that everything and everybody does.) However, I do believe that ENERGY IS SPIRIT.
In my view, Western civilization suffers from the paradox of final failure from too much success at controlling society through lies backed with violence, which systems have the inherent problem that the violence never stops the lies from being false, but rather, that successful enforcement of frauds eventually drives society insane. Since the Western Civilization was actually controlled through its state religion money system, run covertly by the banksters, nothing that is the typical bullshit about what Western Civilization is supposed to be is remotely close to being correct.
My view is that the ONLY thing that Western Civilization did that was worthwhile was develop the scientific methods. I have no use whatsoever for the Bible and Crazy Christianity, except as parts of the data base, which were obviously historically significant. Indeed Western Civilization became the European invasion and conquest of the rest of the world with a Bible in one hand, and a gun in the other, as the dominate systems of organized lies operating robberies, as the steam engines and debt engines were developed everywhere.
In my opinion, Christian morality was merely superlatively developed hypocrisy. I would not like to see any of that kind of bullshit resurrected. Rather, I continue to desire intellectual scientific revolutions, whereby post-modernizing science creatively reconverges with the ancient mysticism, from where it started, a long, long time ago.
I agree that there needs to be a spiritual renewal in Western Civilization. However, my view is that should be done through radical changes in the philosophy of science. In my view it should be plainly obvious that the forces of natural selection are infinitely greater than human beings, and are what made human beings. I believe that we should develop better forms of artificial selection, as human cultures. Those have something to learn from old-fashioned religions and ideologies, but only after those are deconstructed and reconstructed, through a critical analysis of the environmental conditions which selected for those to be able to develop in the first place.
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They have nothing of their own to work with so must use whatever they are told is cool. I'm trying to figure out how you to make barbwire masturbation the next cool thing so i can cash in on it with my rolls of barbwire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPjbPZKObg