The thing about the 21st century - it seems sane and functional people are struggling against a master plan of gaslighting. Postmodern “lived experience” identity based, self established reality, is indeed a real threat to civil society let alone spiritual growth. It promotes destruction of foundations before knowing what should have been built instead or what to build in its place in the apocalypse after the “revolution”.
Except that I think it started in the last century, I feel exactly the same:
1) Scientists measure a minute change in temperature and claim that this is evidence of the terrible effects of CO2 which require us to totally change our lifestyle. Anyone who objects, including climatologists, are simply bad-mouthed. Gradually we learn that not every country needs to lower their CO2, only the Western ones.
2) A scientist 'discovers' that we all have a sexuality (who we are attracted to) and a gender. This 'discovery' isn't really challenged, but suddenly schools have to incorporate the idea in their syllabuses, and toilets have to be re-designed. Gradually we discover that people can change their gender at a whim (without medical intervention), which causes even more chaos that shakes even politicians.
As the madness advances, we are told that children may be taken away from their parents if the parents try to dissuade their children from transitioning!
3) The former CEO of a software firm, tells us repeatedly that a pandemic is about to appear. The definition of a pandemic is adjusted, and then COVID is born. This weird disease is seems no more deadly than any other bug, but kills people who are mostly at deqth's door already. Hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted on this pandemic. Then we get a 'vaccine' (which isn't really a vaccine, but that is OK, because Wikipedia adjusts its definition of a vaccine to include the new technology. By now the alt press is full of evidence that these shots kill many people and injure more. People are still encouraged to go and get the next shot.
4) Some individuals become obscenely rich - so rich that they can indulge every whim they want. They find a good way to do this is to become a 'philanthropist'. That alows them to spend their mony on anything they want, and politicians mostly fall in line. Thus the immense suffering caused by people migrating to distant parts of the globe, is ignored. Spending the same amount of money to help these people where they lived would be far more effective - but the 'philanthropists' make the decision.
4) A senile man is elected US president, and hardly surprisingly, we now seem to be on the verge of a truly catastrophic war.
Etc.
I feel like I am watching the fall of Rome with the added complication of nuclear weapons and the fact that most of us don't have the resources or knowledge to feed ourselves in the aftermath.
I am glad that for a number of reasons we decided not to have children.
David
