Preface: This much is for sure....the rich are getting richer....and there are more of them. Drudge is carrying a Vanity Fair piece right now where residents of the Hamptons are complaining that there are too many new rich people there....with way too much money to spend....and consequently the atmosphere....where it has always been a haven for the rich....is no longer pleasant....(their conception of pleasant.) I still can't wrap my mind around athlete's $100 million dollar contracts. There is definitely something wrong with a society that pays a man that kind of money to catch a ball. There is an existential problem here because a nation simply cannot sustain itself where the poor and the rich are getting further and further apart. The delirium over prosperity in 2019 shorted out something in our brains....for when the coronavirus issues came up in 2020....masks and vaccinations....our arguments began to make no sense at all....and we only converse over symbols today....not ideas....and there is no longer any compassion for people suffering....and what used to be 'determination' that described the conservative....is now more....'extermination'.....for we will exterminate you if you do not become submissive to us. This is all biblical....the information age....and the violence....and the lack of love....and the absolute uselessness of truth....all wrapped around a culture where we are still merrily eating and drinking....and giving in marriage....
Under Jeroboam II the northern kingdom's borders were extended to where they had been under Solomon....and it was the greatest period of prosperity under all of the kings of the northern kingdom....period. Sounds good doesn't it....but it wasn't. Jonah and Amos and Hosea all were prophets to Israel during this time. Wikipedia....a secular source....puts it this way...."According to the prophet Amos....the triumphs of the king had engendered a haughty spirit of boastful overconfidence at home. Oppression and exploitation of the poor by the mighty, luxury in palaces of unheard-of splendor, and a craving for amusement were some of the internal fruits of the external triumphs." Pagan worship prospered in Israel's replacement cities for Jerusalem....and then towards the end of Jeroboam II's reign....came the earthquake....and it was very likely a big one. It was all downhill from there....and within a few decades the ten northern tribes were taken into captivity.
When you have a people who won't even put on a mask to help someone else....and won't get a simple vaccination....while the other side won't do anything if it comes from the traditions of white men....then how are you even going to draft for defense of the nation when war comes? 'Divide and conquer' is not a new tactic. Both Xi Jinping and Putin know the extent of our divisiveness....for they themselves have done their part to bring it about....but then those who are experts at analyzing things like this....are not to be trusted....for they are the deep state....another symbol with which we communicate. I've recommended this before....read through the Old Testament prophets....start with the shorter books....this can be done in an evening....and think of America every time either Israel or Judah are mentioned. If this doesn't drive the reader to their knees....then I don't know what would.
