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Can a Whole Country Go Mad?
American Thinker.com ^ | July 17, 2020 | Judith Acosta

Posted on 07/17/2020 4:52:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

The other day I was watching TV.

(We’re quarantined. Sometimes there is little else to do.)

In any case, in the mindless surfing that approaches an altered state, I saw an ad that left me nearly apoplectic. It consisted of a series of faces covered by masks of all types and sizes. The voice-over repeated like the peeling of bells over St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter: “This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is solidarity.”

It propelled me off the couch. I screamed, “IT’S A MASK.”

It’s a mask that we would not have been allowed to wear into a bank or a federal or state office or municipal office a mere three months ago.

It’s a mask. It’s a mask. It’s a mask.

Like a man condemned to psychological torture in the Gulag, I started to recount all the lies we were being told under the guise of erudition and belonging.

I am not a man (anymore).

I did not have sex with that woman.

I can marry anyone, including my cat.

It’s all Trump’s fault.

Then I wondered: Can a culture go nuts? What are the signs? And what happens when it really does?


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: ministryoftruth
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1 posted on 07/17/2020 4:52:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It’s already happened. Last Karen out please turn out the lights


2 posted on 07/17/2020 4:54:48 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Kaslin

I believe our society is clinically insane. Our patterns of thought have been disrupted and many of us think bizarre thoughts.


3 posted on 07/17/2020 4:57:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Kaslin

Half can. The other half is well armed and friends with the police and military.


4 posted on 07/17/2020 4:59:41 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin

Very good essay.


5 posted on 07/17/2020 5:01:54 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Kaslin
We are living through the Tower of Babel v2.0.

The good news is that now I understand how the original event unfolded.

Every few thousand years, God just decides to make every human being retarded at the same time.

6 posted on 07/17/2020 5:02:14 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Kaslin

The battle is not in the streets. It is in the press.

We need to free the press to stop propaganda.


7 posted on 07/17/2020 5:02:38 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Kaslin

in 2012 i said to a friend there is no hope for a country that elects barack obama twice


8 posted on 07/17/2020 5:03:03 AM PDT by wny
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To: Kaslin

Continental-sized insane asylum. America is one big “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and White traditional men have all become “Randle Patrick McMurphys.”


9 posted on 07/17/2020 5:03:47 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: ClearCase_guy; metmom; SaveFerris; Roman_War_Criminal
I believe our society is clinically insane

And the mental patients are running the institution.

The Bible says that in the latter days, not only can a whole nation go mad, but the entire world (as foretold in Revelation, Isaiah, and Daniel).

This is bad news for the world, but good news for the believers in Jesus Christ.


10 posted on 07/17/2020 5:04:04 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Kaslin

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, from ‘Orot 2.8’, around 1920:

“The dissipation of the power of the nations, who are drunk with a poisonous cup, is destined to come. God has opened his arsenal and taken out the weapons of His rage.

“If the Western nations will continue to strive to preserve their same character, not following the paths of truth and righteousness, then they will not recognize God, and they will not choose to walk in His ways.

“But this state of rebellion and resistance is just an ephemeral, fleeting moment. The light of repentance shall surely appear, and every being will cast his silver and gold idols away, and all shall return to the goodness of God.

“Then the present-day culture will be totally erased, with all of its foundations, libraries, and theaters. And all of the vain and cruel laws, and the evil and sinful customs of life, will all pass away to oblivion. And G-d alone will be exalted above all on that day.

“Thus, the entire present-day culture will most certainly be destroyed, and upon its residue there will established a new world building in truth, in the knowledge of God: ‘And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of the Lord’s House shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all of the nations shall stream unto it’”.

“And many peoples shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, to the House of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths, for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem,” (Isaiah, 2:3).


11 posted on 07/17/2020 5:06:06 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
-- I believe our society is clinically insane. --

Sure does look like it. Peraps a thin line between brainwashed and lazy, and clinically incapable of rational thought.

I'm recalling how Ingrid Bergman character in Gaslight reacted, when she found the broach in the desk. Light came on - NOW it makes sense.

That moment is coming in our time.

12 posted on 07/17/2020 5:06:28 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Kaslin

When a person has cancer, the good cells outnumber the bad cells many times, but the bad cells spoil things for the entire organism.


13 posted on 07/17/2020 5:06:55 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Mom MD
From the article:

"This is what happens when God has been evicted from a culture. It is indeed a strange thing that is happening to western civilization. In the earlier stages of our culture, the existence of things unseen was hardly questioned. Today, if you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist at all. The locus of control has moved from a universe of the Divine to the essential singularity: One’s Self."

As my old friend, a British RAF pilot, used to say: "Well, there it is then."

14 posted on 07/17/2020 5:07:45 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Kaslin

Well worth the read and the comments too.

Yes. It’s mass hypnosis, brainwashing, insanity. Invasion of the Mind Snatchers and they mean to take over the world. And they’ve got a good run at it.

Every European country is going through the same culture wars as America. It’s been building for years and all ramped up post-911.


15 posted on 07/17/2020 5:09:36 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: SkyPilot

Yup. drop the mike. But God will soon drop the curtain


16 posted on 07/17/2020 5:10:08 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

My SIL had Breast cancer, They removed her breast. Unfortunately the cancer moved to her brain and she died from Breast Cancer


17 posted on 07/17/2020 5:10:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: SkyPilot

Well said, Sky Pilot!


18 posted on 07/17/2020 5:11:15 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Kaslin
Human beings are inherently insane due to our attraction to things that are self-destructive.

We are wobbly by nature.;-)

I am always amazed at how many really good businessmen have damaged their careers by getting involved with a dangerous woman (and probably vice versa for women).

BTW, I know whereof I speak. Mea culpa.

19 posted on 07/17/2020 5:12:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: cuban leaf; Sioux-san; All

“Half can. The other half is well armed and friends with the police and military.”

$oro$-like criminals will out you for a small fee. It’s happened before. Right, George.

Where’s the “WANTED” posters for George, Bill, Anthony, Rockefeller, elites. Such
“self-appointed” humanitarians have never caused so much misery worldwide. Love how they call for the shutdown of L4 labs.

Suppose you had the smartest, EVIL minds in the world thinking of toppling The United States of America. Could you send it into chaos? Topple it? How?

(no need to answer...WITNESS)

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/national-covid-19-testing-and-tracing-action-plan/

Thanks to FReeper Sioux-san for the link from the message board of the state of Michigan.

UNcivilized SUPERCRIMINALS are very slick and sick. The eugenicists microSoftkill army are popping their popcorn, watching with amusement.


20 posted on 07/17/2020 5:13:32 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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