Thursday, April 18, 2013

Distractions and Conspiracies

It’s remarkable how the news media can obsess for weeks over the personal indiscretions of a politician, while ignoring world-changing international events that are more difficult to encapsulate, less titillating, and probably more truly frightening. Sometimes it appears that national leaders deliberately  encourage focus on these trivialities in order to more freely make large moves that might otherwise attract criticism and debate. It’s the classic strategy in games as well as war: do a feint to distract the opponent while you are moving in with the real offensive.
So, considering some of the high profile concerns now in the socio-political scene and proportional media coverage, we see world leaders being whipped into basing energy policy on the possibility of a 2° temperature rise over the next 100 years while their citizens are invited to consume more resources and produce more garbage. We see a public grieving over potential shifts in the polar bear population while passionately defending the practice of killing our own unborn. We have complex laws to punish what are determined this year to be sexual offenses, while every sexual deviance imaginable is openly offered to people of all ages as entertainment.  We identify “bullying” as a prime cause of social ills and alienation, while we see systematic dismantling of sacred marriage and parent-child relationships. Meanwhile we are bullied into being “tolerant” to whatever marginal practice we might disagree with, with the underlying premise that disagreement is irrelevant because there are no moral truths.  And free speech against what is sacred is praised while speaking out against violations of the sacred is punished.  We fret over young adults emerging from the educational system with a low esteem for self and others, and regarding life in general as meaningless, while requiring by law that the educational system teach them exactly that we are irrelevant accidents in a meaningless universe.
If these are strategic feints, then what is the actual agenda? It is entertaining for little people to think about the powerful conspiring to manipulate everything for the gain of the elite. But the above social phenomena, while useful at times to economic powers, are too pervasive to be systematically initiated by them.  The apostle Peter noted that we have an enemy who prowls about like a lion seeking to devour. Although any conspiracy theory verges on paranoia, I would still suggest that what our social engineers are viewing as in the best interest of all, is, without their awareness, consistent with a supernatural strategy to lead us into worshipping and serving the creation rather than the Creator. –philw- April 2013

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