Demonic America

Original Material | 4/6/2016 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

Rudyard Kipling wrote a prescient poem in 1919, called "Gods of the Copybook Headings.". This is, simply put, a must-read poem.

Copybooks were texts that allowed British schoolchildren of the time to practice penmanship, and the phrase they would copy -- often a phrase of a sermon, or some wise aphorism -- would be featured on the copybook heading. Kipling was appalled by the counterintuitive modern thoughts of the day, and wrote the poem to point out how eons of wisdom and experience of humankind were hard-won, and he urged us not to embrace the depraved 'shortcuts' we began to take.

Like Kipling -- though lacking his talent -- I, too, urge us to take stock of where we are. Are we in open rebellion with morality and common-sense? Are we in a pitched war with reality? Have we become a Demonic America?

1. Companies, and now the Obama administration, are now punishing states that pass laws that demand that men stay in the men's bathrooms and locker rooms, and that women do the same.
2. Planned Parenthood, a company that performs mass abortions, are selling the body parts of their victims.
3. Lawmakers on both sides see the carnage, rape, and murder in Europe from the introduction of millions of Muslim "refugees", then promptly seek to emulate, here, the policies that allow them to come.
4. On college campuses, free speech is shouted down and censored, so that a few 'snowflakes' are not offended. One may not say gender-specific pronouns, or state that "America is a land of opportunity", lest one be censured. This lawless administration intends to prosecute companies and individuals who seek scientific clarity on 'manmade global warming', essentially outlawing true scientific inquiry.
5. Our President lies constantly about everything, even when the truth would serve him better. Obama and Hillary Clinton conspired to send advanced military arms, through Libya, to Muslim terrorists and extremists.
6. A racially-aligned group -- Black Lives Matter -- have pointedly decried anyone who states that the lives of any other racial group also matters. Is this not racism in the truest form? Is this not racial superiority writ large?
7. The TSA, a Federal Agency, routinely gropes the genitalia of American travelers, and we have grown desensitized to this horrific level of personal intrusion.
8. Then there is the freedom to kill infants, codified in 1973 by a bizarre Supreme Court decision.

Take yourself back ten years, and (except for the last item, which is older) ask if you would have physically struck a future-you that claimed that any of the above would come to pass.

I know I would.

There can be no doubt. We are in the clutches of great evil. Common sense has been thrown aside for bizarre and absurd conclusions that fly in the face of 2000 years of civilization, and the ideals of decency that surrounded us.

I have not even discussed other forms of evil, such as the Administration's betrayals of Israel -- including an implied threat to shoot down Israeli aircraft that would have struck Iran's nuclear facilities. There are so many other examples, too numerous to list. It all comes together to inform us that this is Satan's time, a time of unbridled evil.

Back in the 1970's and 1980's, I used to listen Iran call us the 'Great Satan' with a combination of derision and bemusement.

Now, I actually wonder... is that what we have become?

[PrairieDawg]

Nah. We've had Artificial Intelligence for years. Haven't you ever seen a 2nd Lieutenant before?

(Full disclosure - a Nam vet told me that one. I never served so I don't actually know.)

[Tax-chick]

“The earth [and heavens] as we know it” will be *remade* into the new heavens and new earth. A seed doesn’t go to figurative Hades when it grows into the plant it was always intended to be.

[Lazamataz]

Whatever they are — suggestions, criticisms — I value them and they help me grow.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well it would be good if you had.

But this can only be done through something that is a gospel witness. Just trying to make the country nicer won’t do it.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, the facility with rhyme and meter is outrageous, but the real genius, in my opinion, is using those tools to give the almost photographic image of the aftermath of a battle in the Afghan Wars. Remember the scene early in the movie “Patton” when Gen. Patton views the field after the battle of Kasserine Pass?

[Lazamataz]

Well it would be good if you had.

But I did.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Okay, okay, you convinced me! Please add. Thanks!

[Lazamataz]

Just noticed this one in that old classic. Pure brilliance.

“If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch ‘em — you’ll swing, on my oath! —
Make ‘im take ‘er and keep ‘er: that’s Hell for them both,
An’ you’re shut o’ the curse of a soldier.”

[Squantos]

Look .....a squirrel !!

[Tax-chick]

LOL! That’s the great observer of human nature using rhyme and meter to make the reader say, “Hell ... yeah!”

[Lazamataz]

Ah. The old "There's a squirrel over there, you don't want my gun" trick.

[Califreak]

I knew we were in evil times a long time ago.

If it gets much worse I don’t want to play this game any more.

[Lazamataz]

Kipling should be honored in his afterlife to know how much of an impact he made on contemporary times.

He’s one of my heros. Ben Franklin is another.

[Tax-chick]

Ben Franklin is one of those characters who has to be real because nobody would have thought him up on their own.

I honestly can't remember a time when I didn't love Kipling. It started with stories from The Jungle Book, like "Rikki Tikki Tavi," but I was reading and memorizing his Indian poetry by the time I was in junior high.

My children are picking it up, too. Bill the Son (older brother of Tom, the future global dictator) took a college course on colonial India. To quote my mom, "What does this have to do with your major? When are you finally going to graduate already?" (August 2016!)

[Lazamataz]

Ben Franklin is one of those characters who has to be real because nobody would have thought him up on their own.

If reincarnation is real, I am Ben Franklin.

Seriously. I really feel like him.

[Tax-chick]

Have you tried some of Franklin’s writing techniques, such as attempting to rewrite news stories as rhyming poetry? He said it really builds vocabulary and teaches a writer to develop flexibility in sentence construction.

[Lazamataz]

Since I once was him, yes, I’ve done that.

But I probably need to do that in this iteration of me, too.

[Lazamataz]

I think I happened upon something.

To understand me best, simply envision Benjamin Franklin.

Right down to the pear-shaped body.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Huh, I thought I was on this list but didn’t get the ping. Add me please?

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

Make sure you have an Unabridged Dictionary on hand. My kids shredded mine - but they have great vocabularies now! - and all we have is a Webster’s Collegiate.

Oh, look at the time! Maybe after a nice literary discussion and four glasses of wine, I’ll be able to sleep to 0500.