So the Super Bowl is over and another season of life is wasted. Here in Pittsburgh the Penguins will pick up the slack....and then the Pirates. Yesterday's Lord's Day was carpet bombed....and ministers....the vast majority of them....never even gave a simple caution let alone a warning on evangelicals trampling that day. Fathers....so many of them....thought it such a wonderful father/son thing to do....sit down with their son and watch the Super Bowl....and the halftime show by the way. Meanwhile other fathers use the day to the best of their ability to protect their children....to keep them thinking about God....and they are probably looked down upon for being so religiously strict. The U. S. State Department only hours ago told all of our citizens to leave Russia.....immediately....a level 4.....top level warning. Don't worry....this is only an alternate reality.
Fox has an opinion piece up right now. The author of it is a Democrat but was chosen by Trump as one of his economic advisors. Here is the first part of that article...."
"If you've worked hard to afford a suburban house with a patch of lawn where your kids can play, you're under attack. The Biden administration and Democrats in New York, Connecticut and other states are fighting local zoning laws in order to build high-rise apartment buildings with 'affordable' units in tree-lined, single family neighborhoods. All in the name of equity, meaning everyone can live in a tranquil suburb, whether they've earned the money to pay for it or not."
That article and the philosophy behind it is pure racism....keep the minorities out. Trump used this heavily in his rallies in 2020....and evangelicals....supposed compassionate Christians....were all for it. The article even addressed the charge of racism. Their argument was that "race isn't a barrier to suburban living....you just have to have the money."
Coming home yesterday from a trip....we made a detour to the small town in which I was raised. My friend's families are all gone....the parents having all died....but I want to focus on one house two doors away from the apartment where I was raised. We spent a lot of time on that front porch.....playing games and eating pizza. I always considered this family well-to-do....and the house was immaculate. The two sons went on to be PHD professors at major universities. The street was somewhat run down. My other friend's father was the mayor. That house....even more elaborate in the day....was run down. This house in question that we spent many hours on the porch....was a shambles....outside anyway....with deep rips in the outdoor carpeting. I presume that the ethnic makeup of the street is still caucasian. The children....including myself....moved either out to the suburbs or in my case to a beautiful and historic town.
America has changed.....more specifically....Americans have changed. The real worry today for us in conservatism is in how long we will keep the suburbs.....and how to keep the church doors open....(even though they only serve fancy macaroon sermons)....not world war.....not pandemics....which are fake....and certainly not God's judgment. Our society went through the normal changes that any country would go through. From a rural life....to industrial growth....to industrial collapse....the landscape dotted with once lovely and prosperous towns....now boarded up storefronts....the survivors having moved on to gated communities....retirement states....and newly built housing developments....each house within....that in my day would have been considered a mansion.
This is how societies progress....impoverished areas....and tent cities....separated from the ones who....'had the money'....to escape. Our schools suffer the same separation....where some are like small college campuses....and others are where ones treads carefully when in the area.
The world of sports as mentioned in the first paragraph....is not only a suburban phenomenon....as it also dominates the small....bar on many street corners....urban settings. The world dominated by drones and AI is not a world of which on should look forward....but this is not only a case of industrialization and technology....but rather the consummation of all of history....Nebuchadnezzar's dream image about to collapse.
Note: I addressed this issue in two recent posts if you are interested....Another Lost Season Of Life....and....White Privilege....and the post two below this.
