Posted on 09/19/2015 7:35:26 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Hopelessness correlates to fewer children... makes sense that 'being grounded' would create larger families.
Grossly overgeneralized nihilistic pap.
A reporter asked what our media would call "vigilante groups" why they were even bothering when there was so little left to protect.
The men on patrol replied "That's not the point. The point is that this is our community, we have our pride and we won't allow a lawless element to run things no matter how trivial. These patrols will continue until the authorities have the resources to protect us. Until then, we will protect ourselves."
Imagine what would happen in our crime infested inner cities if a significant number of their residents took a similar view.
Exactly he “touched on it”.
As well written as the article is he obviously didn’t think “it” was important enough to spend much time on. He could easily be the average “Christian” who really could be defined as a “practical” atheist, that is one that claims Christianity but lives his everyday life like God does not exist.
What we are seeing is a culture leaving its roots and becoming purely secular.
Abortion
Homo marriage
Gender identity?
Vilification of traditional values
“Supreme Court” using foreign (godless) law
Etc.
Etc.
Yes!...and now we can add obama’s appointment of an openly gay Sec. of the Army...who has that same sickly putrid look so many do....we have fallen far Gods Standards...very far.
I think many Christian authors and writers can no longer bring God or Christian values into their pieces because they’d never get published outside the Christian community today....or they’d be so edited the real message would be lost.
Even in the work place the overall “condition” is not to speak about matters of God. Christianity is being smoothered from the mainstream of society....and thus leaving a vacume quickly being filled by numerous replacements.
I visited a community in west Baltimore last week called Sand Town, adjacent to the area where rioting occurred. The residents banded together and refused to allow any kind of criminal element tear them down. This is an area with whole blocks of vacant houses and substantial poverty. Nevertheless they were not willing to allow their youth to destroy their community. There was no rioting of any kind there.
“Japan has no racial strife.”
Japan does have racial animus, even if it doesn’t have strife (depending on what you mean by strife), it just doesn’t have too many non-Japanese to have strife with. There’s a reason why article 14 exists in the Japanese constitution.
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-black-miss-japan-fights-for-race-revolution-2015-5
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-05-12/how-japanese-american-burst-japans-bubble-racism
http://japanfocus.org/-the_asahi_shimbun_culture_research_center-/2932/article.html
Nice observation. Proves that vigilantism actually is the most logical course of action in some cases.
In general technology is getting stronger while the people are getting weaker in the USA.
That said. There are three or four very big technological revolutions in the wings that will fundamentally change this country.
MIT has a list of ten technologies.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534976/nano-architecture/
But I think their work misses the big picture.
The fracking revolution in the last five years has underpinned the obama years by creating several trillion new dollars for the USA (instead of fiat money). But that’s just the first wave in the energy revolution. The next wave comes in 5 years when electric car batteries are produced in volume and begin the demand destruction for oil. It will be the most beautiful time in history to be have a car. Because fuel prices will be driven steadily downward by competition between new types of internal combustion engines that are super fuel efficient and ever cheaper cheaper electric cars and even natural gas trucks and buses. Judging by the amount of money that Toyata pours into Hydrogen fuel cell cars—these cars will be a player too.
That’s the second wave of the energy revolution. The third wave of the energy revolution comes when fourth generation nuclear reactors come online that collapse the cost of base load electricity to 1/2 -1/4 the coast of current cheapest coal based electricity costs.
There will be a secondary knock on effect of dirt cheap electricity prices. It will become economical to do desalination for agriculture. this will result in the world’s deserts being turned into new farm land. that will double the size of habitable earth.
There is a manufacturing revolution gaining speed now in three d printing and advanced robotics which will return most of US manufacturing from abroad.
The medical revolution and really the combined new knowledge on the relationship between food and health will extend lives significantly.
Materials reasearch and genetics will be doing unknown things in the future.
Somewhere out in the future quantum computers will be perfected. Their effects will be to collapse time frames in the way the railroad and airplanes did in the 19th ad 20th centuries.
Not only is technology changing but the rate of change is acceleration —not slowing down.
If what you predict comes to fruition, ObaMao’s dreams of turning America into just another third world country will be greatly frustrated.
“And so goes all godless societies.
Good article but be completely misses the real cause and rather examines the symptoms.”
I think Greenfield “gets” it.
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