We’ve warned you: kill the culture, and it’ll kill you back.
That seems to be what’s happening to ours.
Do you ever think about whole civilizations that are dead and gone, wiped out, erased from the record, kaput…? Do you ever wonder why they went out of business? What did they do that turned them into ruins and tall tales?
I think they must have done a lot of things that we do.
History always has room for another dead civilization.
San Francisco mayoral debate: who ought to be the mayor of one of the world’s most famous cities? How is that judgment to be made?
Ooh-ooh! I know! I know!
One candidate challenges another to “name three drag queens” (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/18/san-francisco-mayoral-debate-democrat-mayor-breed-asks-challenger-to-name-3-drag-queens/). Oh, yeah! Challenge an opposing candidate (there were five in the debate) to “prove his loyalty”–I’m not sure my stomach is up to finishing this sentence.
“I’m so incredibly proud,” says the mayor, of this and that LGBTQetc. thing… why, I can’t imagine. Am I alone in this? Am I the only one who doesn’t get it? Like, this really is how you decide who should govern a major city? Is that what I’m failing to understand?
I don’t see our civilization prospering from this. Gonna wind up on the ash heap with all those other failed civilizations.
Although most of them lasted longer than we seem likely to.
“Books? Oh, yes, we have books!”
We have the costliest and most intrusive “education” regime in world history–and what do we get out of it?
Illiterates. Stunatas.
Writing and reading–without them, there’s no civilization. The best we can do is hand down stories by word of mouth; and if you’ve ever played “telephone,” you know how the message gets distorted over time.
Is it necessary to ask, “Well, then, what the dickens are they learning in those public schools, if they don’t read?”
I think we all know the answer to that question.
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Who’s gonna wreck America?
How do civilizations die? How do they come to lose belief in themselves; how do they come to lose their faith?
Proud owners of the world’s first global civilization, we have invented a brand-new way to destroy that civilization. Honk if you’re surprised!
And here’s a thought to keep you up all night: apart from natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods, every catastrophe that has ever afflicted the human race… has been let loose by the current ruling class.
Lesson from history–
Q: Who destroyed Nazism?
A: Adolf Hitler and his cronies destroyed Nazism.
Q: Who destroyed the Soviet Union?
A: The Communist Party destroyed the Soviet Union.
Something about the blind leading the blind…
“Look inside yourself” may not be good advice for some people.
(Hello? Anybody here? Zero comments this morning. Was it something I said?)
Remember this? Although they had lots of witnesses, plus videotape, police in Colorado Springs couldn’t catch this woman who liked to enhance her morning jog by crapping on people’s lawns.
Do you ever get the impression that our culture is coming unglued? How much full-blown lunacy does it take to put a civilization down for the count?
I wonder what the Indus Valley people were “celebrating” and “affirming” when their whole civilization went bust.
This theme has been camped out in my head, lately.
Has our all-consuming coronavirus scare finally taught us how vulnerable, how fragile, how uncertain our current global civilization is? And how truly freakin’ stupid are The Smartest People In The World?
If we hadn’t listened to them, we wouldn’t be in this mess today.
The poor devils in the Late Bronze Age couldn’t avoid what happened to them.
What’s our excuse?
[We join this broadcast of Eternity Today in progress.]
HOST: Our guest is Western Civilization, which has just died after a run of–what was it?–at least 3,000 years. Pretty good, eh? [Applause]…
HOST: So tell us, Western Civilization. When you finally crashed and burned… what were you doing?
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: [Shuffles feet. Looks at floor. Mumbles incoherently]
HOST: Relax! It’s all over now. Just tell us what you were doing when the crash came.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: Well… Like… oh, man… We were making up genders–okay? Dozens of new genders! And new sexual lifestyles to go with them!
HOST [Amazed]: You mean, while the Chinese communists were inventing new diseases, like the one that wiped you out, instead of watching them closely and preventing them from doing stuff like that, you guys were… inventing new genders?
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: That’s about the size of it, man. Oh! I’m so ashamed! Who ever would’ve thought that it would end like this?
HOST: Uh, a lot of different people thought so, Westy. And warned you. Again and again. But you never listened. You just said it was “religion” and made faces at it, stopped up your ears, and turned away.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: If only I’d come to my senses in time! If only I’d taken adequate precautions! If only we hadn’t been so greedy for all that Chinese money, that it made us blind to all else! Then we might’ve gotten off with just a damned good scare–just enough to scare us back onto the right track.
HOST: But you were too busy making up new genders.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: [Breaks down into tears, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Studio audience gives thunderous applause]
HOST: Well, folks, that’s it for Eternity Today today. Tune in to Eternity Today tomorrow for another special guest who wishes it was… yesterday!
Last week featured a bumper crop of crazy nooze.
A question that springs to mind is: Why? Why all the craziness? Crazy Congress, crazy pope, crazy celebrities. And what are we supposed to get out of turning boys into fake girls and girls into fake boys?
Not that many civilizations have ever tried it; maybe no one’s tried it. But something tells me that basing a whole way of life on pure delusion is not going to turn out well.