parasitic cultural elite

Gerard Baker, 7/6/20, WSJ-behind paywall

“The rot in America’s cultural institutions was spread for more than half a century by a self-loathing cultural establishment. Now it has matured amid a public malaise induced by 20 years of elite-driven political and economic failure that has undermined faith in the system that made America great.”

“It won’t be enough to reassert America’s great historic virtues. It will require weakening the power of the totalitarians on campus, ensuring fair access for all voices on tech platforms, holding to account the lawless mobs defacing and defaming the nation’s legacy. But it will also require addressing the rot in American capitalism, reining in the power of bloated monopolies, and ensuring that corporations prioritize Americans over their globalist, progressive agendas.””

This country hasn’t passed from great to evil in two decades. America hasn’t failed. But Americans have been failed—misled by inept and deceitful political leaders, deserted by predatory and mercenary corporate chiefs, and, above all, betrayed by a parasitic cultural elite that exploited American freedom to trash the country. It isn’t America’s history that needs to be repudiated. It’s its present.”

“America hasn’t failed. But Americans have been failed – misled by inept and deceitful political leaders, deserted by predatory and mercenary corporate chiefs, and, above all, betrayed by a parasitic cultural elite that exploited American freedom to trash the country. It isn’t America’s history that needs to be repudiated. IT IS THE PRESENT.” (closing emphasis added by me)

my 2 cents:

It is comical and disgusting to see so-called professional athletes who benefited from the USA capitalistic principles to become millionaires, multi-millionaires and those aspiring to be millionaires. These individuals whose income is tied to support of loyal fans whether in ticket sales, shopping purchases, brand affiliation and even more money because of their athletic prowess and public support. Athletes – yes remember that – athletes. Not paid for by X political commentary ranters. No, they are ATHLETES. What do athletes do? Well they ARE SUPPOSED TO BE performing in their sport to the best of their abilities. It is that simple. Public support especially ticket sales and television viewing of sporting events is because the public wants to see these ATHLETES PERFORM to the best of their abilities in their sport. NOWHERE in this transaction has the public stood up demanding athletes do anything else than be athletes.

Everything wrote in the preceding paragraph applies in likeness to movie, television, streaming entertainment, etc.. aka “Hollywood”. Replace ATHLETE for ACTOR and sport with released entertainment product.  Again, we DON’T want to hear or see your political beliefs IF you are going to leverage your celebrity status & salaries into force-feeding the support of the public with your political or philosophical beliefs.  PERIOD.

You are actors and athletes neither which has a prerequisite for the needs of  superior intelligence, excellent discernment skills or the ability to perform accurate critical thinking. So plz, SHUT UP and just DO YOUR JOBS.

The degeneration of our society

I am working on a post that (I hope) will provide an analysis of material I have been digesting over the past six months. I have found it quite interesting that over the past month I am seeing others who are writing or recording about very similar matters and are coming to many of the same conclusions. In the meantime I am sharing the recent article from Linda Kimball that is quite good and relevant to these matters and our society. Her article is titled Your soul: Cost of admission to Progressivism’s City of Man (new Sodom and Rome). The article takes less than five minutes to read but will “stick to your ribs” for much longer.

Here are a few quotes:
“… seizing control of our culture and mind-shaping institutions (i.e., seminaries, politics, media, academia, music, science, internet), …”
“It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives…suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with associated indicators for mental illness.“ (‘Social and Emotional Learning” Jan. 26, 2005, edwatch.org) 

For more than eighty years, but with great speed and force since the 1960’s ‘sex, drugs, and rock’n’ roll’ revolution, America’s Progressive ruling class has been stealthily undermining America’s founding worldview, seizing control of our culture and mind-shaping institutions (i.e., seminaries, politics, media, academia, music, science, internet), and through them moving our society away from a Biblical/creational worldview to the evolutionary, mystically Gnostic pagan model that undergirds the Progressive fantasy – a City of Man.

Under the guiding hands of vicious Progressive Leftists, straight white men and orthodox Christians are subjected to fiendish psychological bullying while compromising ‘progressivized’ Christian intellectuals and thought-leaders move the church toward faithlessness. At the same time, the wicked are transforming America into a modern version of Sodom and Rome where sodomy was normal, boys were routinely corrupted and perverted by sadists, unwanted babies were sacrificed to the gods (demons), and powerful demoniacs controlled society.

On a daily basis, Christians are psychologically beaten and pressured to self-flagellate as a condition of surrender to the pagan ideology (James 3:15) of pagan ‘elites.’ When Christians give into worldly pressure and ideology it means they’ve submitted their wills, hence their minds, bodies, and children to wicked men and the evil spirits working through them. Surrender means living a lie and falling into a bottomless pit of depravity and insanity, such as acceptance of gender neutral terms like partner, gender queer, gender non-conforming, misgender, two spirit, hir, hirself, zir, and zirself rather than man, woman, husband, wife, mother, and father. The world calls the surrender of will, mind, and body ‘brain washing.’

Modernity and the breakaway free-fall of western civilization in our time

This is a little over 14 minutes long.
It is uncomfortable to view and troubling to see how PLAINLY that our society is not going to get better.
The video is also an accurate summary of how society is nearing the prophetical end of the Lord Jesus Christ’s words:

Luke 17:25-29  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.  [26]  And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.  [27]  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.  [28]  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;  [29]  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

What was the impact to Lot for being there is the land of Sodom and Gomorrah?  2 Peter 2:4-9  For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;  [5]  And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;  [6]  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;  [7]  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:  [8]  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)  [9]  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: