I'm overarchingly compelled to comment on the world, our nation and the state of mind in the current time. I know, to a degree, that due to certain permissive actions in the Nation that our culture is being degraded. It's not the same country it used to be (perhaps it never was since the 1960's), and I hearken back to a better time, when life was simpler and less complicated by expensive digital devices.
Video games are one of these digital devices.
Used in moderation,
Video gaming technologies can be a useful distraction in a painful world...
However there are many, many bad sides to this cultism of finger diddling...
Amongst which is the idolatry of young people who could have a future, yet waste their time on pointless gaming. It's a shame, and I don't think it would be much of a leap (nor would I be the first to speculate) to write that the availability of FPS games could be a contributing factor in the recent wave of Mass Shootings. It basically makes into voyeurism the use of automatic guns to "kill the enemy".
I feel that in our nation, the state of mind has been corrupted by years of misunderstanding freedom in terms of the whole 'fairy tale' of "defeat the evil bad guy, get the beautiful princess". It's in movies, books, video games and the current zeitgeist...
But freedom isn't that simple.
For years,
The whole "Defeat the evil bad guy" narrative fiction archetype has worked marginally well for audiences of cinema and T.V. to find entertainment... but I'm afraid "Good vs. Evil" as a narrative cliche is becoming almost as deleterious as video gaming.
I mean,
What if the fictional representation of justice is at odds with the way the world really works?
It could lead to all kinds of mental illness, in-and-of-itself.
Further,
The world is at a time when the gruesome realities of strife, whether war or even natural disaster, is hitting literally "home" for millions of people. Why?
Well it could be because of God's judgement.
When people en masse start rejecting the Almighty Father, Jehovia, then we as a human race are bound to fall out of favor with our creator. We are God's, and so is the world.
The more we as a species fight against this truth,
Rebel and think of ourselves as "God",
We bring down the almighty wrath and fire upon all.
More and more,
The world is secularizing people's minds. Through textbooks, popular media, magazines and even the fashion industry, Religion is losing touch, in a technological era, with it's roots.
In fact,
many youth are losing touch with their roots.
I know it's trite,
but in many ways people accept carte blanche now what people in my age had to search out, discover, study the origins of, and perpetuate through individual volition. It seems that the youth aren't interested in figuring out the origins of anything in music, or at least the majority.
Why?
It could be big tech.
But I think it has to do with copyright infringement by the Internet-itself.
Many,many musicians are finding it harder to make any kind of money off of the albums they have for sale, or keep a career as a performing band mostly because of Youtube and Alphabet Co.
Why go to a record shop,
buy a hard copy of your favorite band for around 15 bucks for a single LP,
and collect it - when you can easy as american pie simply type the words into a little search engine and have free unlimited access to all of it digitally?
This seems, in many respects, to be a de-evolution of culture by technology, not progress.
So how are we to save our minds from the trauma we experience as a human race?
How are we to save our nation from the corrupting forces of foreign big Tech?
And how are we to Save the World???
I don't know the answer,
but we can pray~
DDU/IDU 5/19/2023
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