[Avoiding_Sulla]

Deb, I just do not understand the pessimism of the common man. Elites have always despised and feared the common man in more or less equal measures, depending freqently on how useful the pawn was deemed. For the average American to have been so corrupted to have fallen back to the tunnel vision of the darker expanses of the world from which our forebears fled could only have happened by us having gotten so thoroughly well-off and thinking itself so swell.

"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26)

Now that question is a warning not a prediction.

So the temptors in service of the evil influences in this world must know that they gain when they find out how to wheedle into each man so that his soul might appear to be wormwood by his Creator. They must have trapped so many of our citizens with this thinking that quality of life is now all important. It's as Wretchard has so clearly seen:

"love, pity and sorrow for individuals is sentiment beneath contempt."

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The common man got fat, lazy and apathetic. He has to work for and worry about very little compared to his ancestors. Ensure food in his belly, unlimited rights to all kinds of sexual behavior, other sensual pleasures and that is all he/she cares about. The modern man is trained from the cradle to live an unaware, dumbed down, non-spiritual existence. It is easily accomplished because the darkness plays to man's weaknesses.

Cultures at this point implode.