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compiled by D.Stall, born [[Mid-century modern]] (mid '50s)<br> | compiled by D.Stall, born [[Mid-century modern]] (mid '50s)<br> | ||
created June 2022, from compilation of information begun in the early 2000s | created June 2022, from compilation of information begun in the early 2000s | ||
The purpose of '''MOD•wiki''' is critical analysis of [[Modernity]] in support of The Consumer Resistance against destruction of all Creation, in light of having awakened to the reality that American citizens have been derogated to mere consumers — to wage slaves of the totalitarian economic system, stripped of political power by way of the [[Agrarianism#Civil_War|Second American Revolution]], converted from agricultural to industrial peasants from [[Propaganda]] that our forebears were “poor”, from manipulation of our desire, and from instilling in us craving for more, by which we're sold a bunch of “stuff” that only further enriches a plutocratic oligarchy of the rich. | |||
The purpose of '''MOD•wiki''' is critical analysis of [[Modernity]] in support of The Consumer Resistance against destruction of all Creation. | |||
''See'' — [http://dstall.com/DIY/ '''DIY•wiki'''] | ''See'' — [http://dstall.com/DIY/ '''DIY•wiki'''], ''Modern Times'' and other films of Charlie Chaplin | ||
'''MOD•wiki''' is NONcommercial UNmercenary FREE, always free, NOT a writer schtick, transparent, really independent, dedicated to researched, logical, reasoned analysis and critical thinking, NOT contentious, unreasonable, illogical, impassionate argument, much less lying, manipulative [[Propaganda]] (political or otherwise), or delusional, mindless ditto-heading of [[Propaganda]] — and especially NOT (as rampantly evident on the internet) imaginative fantasy musing (blogging, gabbing for the sake of gab, cerebral masturbating, talking head blathering — what my dad called “talking to hear your head rattle”). Here will not be found any right wing little "o" orthodox Christian culture war screed or science fiction, philosophical or other musings about technology or anything else. | '''MOD•wiki''' is NONcommercial UNmercenary FREE, always free, NOT a writer schtick, transparent, really independent, dedicated to researched, logical, reasoned analysis and critical thinking, NOT contentious, unreasonable, illogical, impassionate argument, much less lying, manipulative [[Propaganda]] (political or otherwise), or delusional, mindless ditto-heading of [[Propaganda]] — and especially NOT (as rampantly evident on the internet) imaginative fantasy musing (blogging, gabbing for the sake of gab, cerebral masturbating, talking head blathering — what my dad called “talking to hear your head rattle”). Here will not be found any right wing little "o" orthodox Christian culture war screed or science fiction, philosophical or other musings about technology or anything else. | ||
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Truth is essential to humanity and life, because only the truth is <mark>real</mark>. ''See'' — [[Pinocchio]]<br> | Truth is essential to humanity and life, because only the truth is <mark>real</mark>. ''See'' — [[Pinocchio]]<br> | ||
It's no wonder then that a lot of fuss is made over it. But how can anyone know what's real with all the confusing twists and turns of layers of deception from which [[Modernity]] has evolved (which incidently goes much deeper than the 1960s)? The place to start digging to uncover evidence against [[Modernity]] is the four Rabbit-Holes in which modern life hides — [[Humanity]], [[Economy]], [[Government]], and [[Environment]].<br> | It's no wonder then that a lot of fuss is made over it. But how can anyone know what's real with all the confusing twists and turns of layers of deception from which [[Modernity]] has evolved (which incidently goes much deeper than the 1960s)? The place to start digging to uncover evidence against [[Modernity]] is the four Rabbit-Holes in which modern life hides —<br> | ||
[[Humanity]], [[Economy]], [[Government]], and [[Environment]].<br> | |||
''See'' — [[Main_Page#Fact_or_Fiction?|Fact or Fiction?]], [[Main_Page#HEGE|HEGE Series]] | ''See'' — [[Main_Page#Fact_or_Fiction?|Fact or Fiction?]], [[Main_Page#HEGE|HEGE Series]] | ||
Critical analysis presented here is NOT for the purpose of solving any problem, only for revealing how problematic [[Modernity]] is. The problem is not [[Modernity]] but human rebellion against the Creator of all, for which the solution has already been revealed. [[Modernity]] is providential in that the will of Providence (God) allows [[Modernity]] to exist to serve His purpose of getting humanity “back to the garden”. By allowing humanity as much rope ( | Critical analysis presented here is NOT for the purpose of solving any problem, only for revealing how problematic [[Modernity]] is. The problem is not [[Modernity]] per se, but human rebellion against the Creator of all by which [[Modernity]] has been created, and for which the solution has already been revealed. [[Modernity]] is providential in that the will of Providence (God) allows [[Modernity]] to exist to serve His purpose of getting humanity “back to the garden”. By allowing humanity as much rope ([https://dstall.substack.com/p/modern-era-error Hubris]) apart from Himself as it takes for humanity to hang itself (like Judas), Providence is reaping all souls who turn in humility and repentance to Him for comm-union. [[Modernity]] serves His purpose by making spiritual Truth tangible and palpable whereas before in the 50s-60s it seemed abstract, far away, and not so very real. Today, the destruction of Earth and the global totalitarianism of The Antichrist seem much more in the realm of possibility than they did in the past, however, it has already been revealed how that ends in triumph for Providence. | ||
The Consumer Resistence fights on hoping in that world to come, Paradise, The Kingdom of Heaven that supercedes Utopia, the kingdom of man, joyful in the knowledge that even now Paradise is already transfiguring man-made, materialistic Utopia through the uncreated Divine energies of the Living “God Who Is Everywhere Present And Fillest All Things”. Resistance ascetically says NO in every possible way to dominance of [[Modernity]] (no matter how small or slight), thereby exercising knowledge that falling out of love with the modern world is key to lasting faith and hope in the Eternal, that does not die and decay as does this temporal realm built on the lie of the Father of Lies (the Evil One). | The Consumer Resistence fights on hoping in that world to come, Paradise, The Kingdom of Heaven that supercedes Utopia, the kingdom of man, joyful in the knowledge that even now Paradise is already transfiguring man-made, materialistic Utopia through the uncreated Divine energies of the Living “God Who Is Everywhere Present And Fillest All Things”. Resistance ascetically says NO in every possible way to dominance of [[Modernity]] (no matter how small or slight), thereby exercising knowledge that falling out of love with the modern world is key to lasting faith and hope in the Eternal, that does not die and decay as does this temporal realm built on the lie of the Father of Lies (the Evil One). | ||
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''See'' — [[Agrarianism#Civil_War|Civil War]] | ''See'' — [[Agrarianism#Civil_War|Civil War]] | ||
After being discharged from the Army Air Corps following end of the War in 1945, my dad wanted to buy a new car, but none were available. All industrial manufacturing had been drafted into the “war effort”, and there were even shortages of basic appliances like washing machines and refrigerators well into the late 40s after my parents married in 1946, their first child was born in 1948, before they bought a home in the early 50s and began to furnish it. Only then were household goods more readily available. As commercial production returned, engineers again took up the question of [[Planned_obsolescence|Planned obsolescence]] that had first appeared in the mid 1920s and 30s — what level of [[Fashion]] or shoddiness (necessitating replacement of goods) would consumers tolerate, which is to ask, to what height of | After being discharged from the Army Air Corps following end of the War in 1945, my dad wanted to buy a new car, but none were available. All industrial manufacturing had been drafted into the “war effort”, and there were even shortages of basic appliances like washing machines and refrigerators well into the late 40s after my parents married in 1946, their first child was born in 1948, before they bought a home in the early 50s and began to furnish it. Only then were household goods more readily available. As commercial production returned, engineers again took up the question of [[Planned_obsolescence|Planned obsolescence]] that had first appeared in the mid 1920s and 30s — what level of [[Fashion]] or shoddiness (necessitating replacement of goods) would consumers tolerate, which is to ask, to what height of wastefulness could [[The System]] aspire for “growth” in [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]]. | ||
The | The wastefulness of [[The System]] stood (and still stands even more so today) in stark contrast to [[Agrarianism]] of original American culture in which frugality was practiced and desires by necessity were restrained. [[Desire#William_Leach|William Leach]] chronicles how the change to new American culture of [[The System]] transpired from the 1880s, which hadn't even yet touched my parents‘ families in the 1940s when they mostly continued living a life of original American culture with few and limited consumer goods, much like the Amish. By the late 50s, my maternal grandparents had already left the land and moved to town, but for a few years my grandfather continued leasing land on which to sharecrop cotton as he had before. My paternal grandparents remained living on 200 acres settled by my great grandfather in 1880 when Comanches yet roamed freely across Texas, where they had moved in 1934. There was no indoor bathroom only chamber pots and an outhouse, no electricity until around 1960, only chopped and split firewood for a wood heater, wood cookstove and a cast iron pot for washing clothes and butchering hogs. There was pitch black darkness at night, the heavens full of stars like I've never seen since by which my dad taught me to locate the little and big dippers. | ||
The original log cabin had vanished, but the barn with two log cribs prevailed, built from Post Oak trees felled by axe on the property. Lumber for framing the barn roof and attached sheds, from which the farmhouse was also built, was milled from the same Post Oak trees at a local sawmill. Up until the mid 70s (nearly a century after my great-grandfather had settled the place), my grandparents were mostly still raising a vegetable garden as usual, tending fruit trees (pears, peaches), keeping a dairy cow, milking, skimming fresh cream, making butter and cottage cheese, raising beef cattle, hogs, and chickens, gathering eggs, buying chicks from a hatchery to raise for fryers, butchering chickens and hogs, making sausage, and smoking sausage, ham, and bacon. The land was poor, deep sandy soil, but the Soil Conservation Service had taught my grandfather to peanut farm, by which he was able to make loan payments and not lose the land. | The original log cabin had vanished, but the barn with two log cribs prevailed, built from Post Oak trees felled by axe on the property. Lumber for framing the barn roof and attached sheds, from which the farmhouse was also built, was milled from the same Post Oak trees at a local sawmill. Up until the mid 70s (nearly a century after my great-grandfather had settled the place), my grandparents were mostly still raising a vegetable garden as usual, tending fruit trees (pears, peaches), keeping a dairy cow, milking, skimming fresh cream, making butter and cottage cheese, raising beef cattle, hogs, and chickens, gathering eggs, buying chicks from a hatchery to raise for fryers, butchering chickens and hogs, making sausage, and smoking sausage, ham, and bacon. The land was poor, deep sandy soil, but the Soil Conservation Service had taught my grandfather to peanut farm, by which he was able to make loan payments and not lose the land. | ||
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They had little money but I never thought of them as poor. They wanted for nothing, recycled before there was such a word. Their passions were not enflamed nor their desires manipulated by [[Advertising]] rooted in the works of Sigmond Freud as popularized in America and developed for such ilk by his nephew [[Propaganda#Eddie_Bernays|Eddie Bernays]]. A great pile of scrap metal from worn out things was heaped before the workshop garage awaiting a project for which the scraps might be used. There was no garbage pickup, only burning of combustible trash; everything else remained piled or strewn around on site. Cans, bottle caps, and scrap lumber were our playground equipment from which we created out of our endless imagination. We knew not to rip the Christmas wrapping paper on my grandmother‘s packages to shreds, because she saved the paper, folding it neatly for use another year. In the attic were stored jars and containers from store bought goods that might be put to good use. All table scraps and garbage from meal preparations were mixed with water and poured in the large crock jar on the back porch for slopping the hogs. Because of boyhood experience of their life, I know that all the blather about economic “growth” raising people out of “poverty” is nothing but yet more [[Propaganda]] of the [[wikipedia:Big_lie|Big Lie]]. | They had little money but I never thought of them as poor. They wanted for nothing, recycled before there was such a word. Their passions were not enflamed nor their desires manipulated by [[Advertising]] rooted in the works of Sigmond Freud as popularized in America and developed for such ilk by his nephew [[Propaganda#Eddie_Bernays|Eddie Bernays]]. A great pile of scrap metal from worn out things was heaped before the workshop garage awaiting a project for which the scraps might be used. There was no garbage pickup, only burning of combustible trash; everything else remained piled or strewn around on site. Cans, bottle caps, and scrap lumber were our playground equipment from which we created out of our endless imagination. We knew not to rip the Christmas wrapping paper on my grandmother‘s packages to shreds, because she saved the paper, folding it neatly for use another year. In the attic were stored jars and containers from store bought goods that might be put to good use. All table scraps and garbage from meal preparations were mixed with water and poured in the large crock jar on the back porch for slopping the hogs. Because of boyhood experience of their life, I know that all the blather about economic “growth” raising people out of “poverty” is nothing but yet more [[Propaganda]] of the [[wikipedia:Big_lie|Big Lie]]. | ||
My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. Once rations were used up in the book, no more purchases could be made for that year. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid to the war ravaged and the money pocketed by American contractors, yet another shill game of [[Organized | My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. Once rations were used up in the book, no more purchases could be made for that year. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid to the war ravaged and the money pocketed by American contractors, yet another shill game of [[Organized Crime]] perpetrated on an unsuspecting American public. And so [[The System]] grew more and more powerful post War by way of [[Permanent war economy]], making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy, | ||
We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare (that had us grade school kids scrambling under our desks for air raid drills) was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized | We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare (that had us grade school kids scrambling under our desks for [https://www.history.com/news/duck-cover-drills-cold-war-arms-race “Duck-and-Cover‘]air raid drills) was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized Crime]]. Conspiratorial lying of the John Birch Society (stepchild of McCarthyism), especially its parlor game of [[Albert_E._Burke#%22Creeping_Socialism%22|“Creeping Socialism”]], has continued to be played well into the 21st century and has only gotten worse for wear. Christians especially should have known all along that stealing lands of [[First Peoples]] and exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized Crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-great-barbecue-revisited Great Barbeque] of [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing through to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post World War II (after a short New Deal reprieve from that initial liberalism) by neo-liberalism beginning in the 80s and continuing through Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years into the 90s, continuing on through to today, thoroughly supported by both political parties as usual.<br> | ||
''See'' — [[ | ''See'' — [[Organized_Crime#Michael_Woodiwiss|Michael Woodiwiss]], [[Organized_Crime#Jonathan_Marshall|Jonathan Marshall]], [[The_System#John_Loftus|John Loftus]], [[Capitalism#American_Foundations|American Foundations]], [[Albert E. Burke]] | ||
<html><div class="right vid margin-l margin-t" style="width:160px;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/90WD_ats6eE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE?rel=0">The Times They Are A-Changin'</a> — Bob Dylan</div></html> | <html><div class="right vid margin-l margin-t" style="width:160px;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/90WD_ats6eE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE?rel=0">The Times They Are A-Changin'</a> — Bob Dylan</div></html> | ||
Today, a user manual for modern times is even more critical than before, as it still appears “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE?rel=0 The Times They Are A Changin]”, but underneath it all things remain pretty much the same — “progress”, economic “growth”, “Growth”,“GROWTH”, “World's Highest Standard of Living” by way of The American Way: [[The System]] of [[Organized | Today, a user manual for modern times is even more critical than before, as it still appears “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE?rel=0 The Times They Are A Changin]”, but underneath it all things remain pretty much the same — “progress”, economic “growth”, “Growth”,“GROWTH”, “World's Highest Standard of Living” by way of The American Way: [[The System]] of [[Organized Crime]], that is turning Earth into a giant landfill. From a Christian perspective such exploitation, degradation and destruction is fulfillment of the intents and purpose of the devil, in his jealousy and hatred of God, to destroy all God's Creation (including humanity, especially), turning Divine [[Cosmology|Cosmos]] back into Chaos from which Cosmos was created. [[Capitalism#American_Foundations|American Foundations]] of the contemporary reigning, global form of [[Modernity]] are thus found guilty of [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]] (not of being Christian as right wing political ideologues proclaim), which makes for [[Main_Page#It's_A_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World|''A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'']], totally desecrated, disenchanted, desacralized and devoid of the spiritual, devoted solely to the material (the temporal, temporary not lasting), destined to decompose back into the dust from which it comes. | ||
<mark>The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth! | |||
— Revelation 11:18</mark> | |||
<mark>Love of money is either the chief or a secondary motive at the bottom of everything the Americans do. | <mark>Love of money is either the chief or a secondary motive at the bottom of everything the Americans do. | ||
— Alexis de Tocqueville 1831</mark> | — Alexis de Tocqueville 1831</mark> | ||
In Christian terms, [[The System]] that conservative “Christians” worship is Mammon worship not True worship of the one, true God, which is to say idolatry, devil worship (worship of the Father of Lies, the Evil One) — the very ungodliness and immorality that political “conservatives” protest and claim to abhor, but in which they themselves participate by way of political affiliation with [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]]. Such politicization of Christianity is not true, is akin to what occurred in Nazi Germany, and has no place in The Church if she is to maintain her saltiness of true purpose, her true counter-culture contradiction of the lies of the Father of Lies (the devil) to enable attraction of lost souls and puppets of the principalities and powers that be to comm-union with their true ruler, the King of | In Christian terms, [[The System]] that conservative “Christians” worship is Mammon worship not True worship of the one, true God, which is to say idolatry, devil worship (worship of the Father of Lies, the Evil One) — the very ungodliness and immorality that political “conservatives” protest and claim to abhor, but in which they themselves participate by way of political affiliation with [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]]. Such politicization of Christianity is not true, is akin to what occurred in Nazi Germany, and has no place in The Church if she is to maintain her saltiness of true purpose, her true counter-culture contradiction of the lies of the Father of Lies (the devil) to enable attraction of lost souls and puppets of the principalities and powers that be to comm-union with their true ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords. The obsession of American conservative “Christians” with legalistic moralism, and with political theocracy as means of enforcing such moralism, are the very things of which delusion of The Antichrist are made. In Christianity, The Antichrist is the final culmination of human self-worship, of the cult of man-god that originated out of Sumeria (Mesopotamia), linked to the cult of the goddess Ishtar or Isis (the Whore of Babylon), which is diabolically opposed to Hebrew monotheism and its Mashiach, and indicative of the worst form of tyrannical totalitarianism that conservative “Christians” fear and claim to oppose. Hebrew sacred scripture is clear: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20146%3A3-5&version=KJV Psalm 146:3-5]), yet that is exactly what is done with such political conservative theocratic ideals that risk turning America into the Daughter of Babylon, the legacy of Babylon that falls, crumbling into complete and utter destruction, collapsing the global economy thereby which the end of time commences and the appearance of The Antichrist is initiated. | ||
[[Modernity]] is not a separate, unrelated phenomenon to Western Christianity ([[Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism]]). It is not diabolic communism at heart opposed to godly capitalism, as political conservatives would have everyone believe. Capitalism is not godly or Christian at heart, because [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]] is not Christian or godly. Capitalism is a function of the apostasy of the west from true Christianity, and a contributing factor to that apostasy. Because the secularism of [[Modernity]] is the outgrowth of western Christianity, a different Christian perspective and POV (Point of View) is needed in order to examine the modern situation, a magnifying glass with which to look out from within the Looking Glass of [[Modernity]] in order to clearly see [[Modernity]] for what it truly is.<br> | [[Modernity]] is not a separate, unrelated phenomenon to Western Christianity ([[Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism]]). It is not diabolic communism at heart opposed to godly capitalism, as political conservatives would have everyone believe. Capitalism is not godly or Christian at heart, because [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]] is not Christian or godly. Capitalism is a function of the apostasy of the west from true Christianity, and a contributing factor to that apostasy. Because the secularism of [[Modernity]] is the outgrowth of western Christianity, a different Christian perspective and POV (Point of View) is needed in order to examine the modern situation, a magnifying glass with which to look out from within the Looking Glass of [[Modernity]] in order to clearly see [[Modernity]] for what it truly is.<br> | ||
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The magnifying glass capable of shedding light on the modern west, the one that is utilized at '''MOD•wiki''' is Eastern Christianity, aka (also known as) Eastern Orthodoxy, or [[Orthodoxy]], a Different Christianity as [[Orthodoxy#Robin_Amis|Robin Amis]] once called it. | The magnifying glass capable of shedding light on the modern west, the one that is utilized at '''MOD•wiki''' is Eastern Christianity, aka (also known as) Eastern Orthodoxy, or [[Orthodoxy]], a Different Christianity as [[Orthodoxy#Robin_Amis|Robin Amis]] once called it. | ||
So, let the trial begin! Plaintiff call your first witness | So, let the trial begin! Plaintiff call your first witness. | ||
Your Honor, I call [[Modernity]] to the stand. . . . | |||
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==Reality or Deception (Illusion, Delusion)?== | ==Reality or Deception (Illusion, Delusion)?== | ||
<mark>[[wikipedia:The_Truman_Show|''The Truman Show'']]</mark> | Wikipedia - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXTASYB14M?rel=0 Trailer] — Truman Burbank, “Chosen out of six unwanted pregnancies to be the first child legally adopted by a <mark>[[Corporations|Corporation]]</mark>”<br> | <mark>[[wikipedia:The_Truman_Show|''The Truman Show'']]</mark> | Wikipedia - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXTASYB14M?rel=0 Trailer]<br> — Truman Burbank, “Chosen out of six unwanted pregnancies to be the first child legally adopted by a <mark>[[Corporations|Corporation]]</mark>”<br> | ||
“True Man”: the one who comes to understand the true corporate controlled condition of modern man and choses to forsake it all for Real Life | “True Man”: the one who comes to understand the true corporate controlled condition of modern man and choses to forsake it all for Real Life | ||
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[[wikipedia:The_Matrix_(franchise)|''The Matrix'' (franchise)]] | Wikipedia<br> | [[wikipedia:The_Matrix_(franchise)|''The Matrix'' (franchise)]] | Wikipedia<br> | ||
— Trailers: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8?rel=0 ''Matrix'' 1999], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzz0FSgpSU?rel=0 ''Reloaded'' 2003], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbexEPAOQI?rel=0 ''Revolutions'' 2003], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ix7TUGVYIo?rel=0 ''Resurrections'' 2021] | — Trailers: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8?rel=0 ''Matrix'' 1999], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzz0FSgpSU?rel=0 ''Reloaded'' 2003], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbexEPAOQI?rel=0 ''Revolutions'' 2003], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ix7TUGVYIo?rel=0 ''Resurrections'' 2021] | ||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJyCFhE5-I&t=654s The Matrix Tried To Warn You] — [https://dstall.com/MOD/Virtual_Reality @Moon-Real] | YouTube | |||
==''It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''== | ==''It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''== | ||
[[wikipedia:It%27s_a_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World|''It's A <mark>Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad</mark> World'']] | Wikipedia<br> | |||
— The quintessential spiritual '''parable of America and the West''' — “'''every man for himself'''” in the proverbial '''<mark>fools’</mark> chase after <mark>money</mark>''' (gold) | |||
[[wikipedia:It%27s_a_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World|''It's A <mark>Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad</mark> World'']] | Wikipedia | |||
The quintessential spiritual '''parable of America and the West''' — “'''every man for himself'''” in the proverbial '''<mark>fools’</mark> chase after <mark>money</mark>''' (gold) | |||
<html><div class="left vid main margin-r margin-t margin-b"><div class="vid_wrap margin-b"><iframe class="video" width="100%" height="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sla845GW9YM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; " allowfullscreen ></iframe></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sla845GW9YM?rel=0"><i>It's A <mark>Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad</mark> World</i></a> (1963)</div></html> | <html><div class="left vid main margin-r margin-t margin-b"><div class="vid_wrap margin-b"><iframe class="video" width="100%" height="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sla845GW9YM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; " allowfullscreen ></iframe></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sla845GW9YM?rel=0"><i>It's A <mark>Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad</mark> World</i></a> (1963)</div></html> | ||
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a <mark>fool</mark>, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is <mark>foolishness</mark> with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. | Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a <mark>fool</mark>, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is <mark>foolishness</mark> with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. | ||
— [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%203:18-19;&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 3:18-19] | — [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%203:18-19;&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 3:18-19] | ||
[https://dstall.substack.com/p/madness-of-modern-life Madness of Modern Life: What's It All About Alfie?] | Emperor‘s New Clothes | |||
[https://www.amazon.com/Age-Insanity-Modernity-Mental-Health/dp/0275970523 The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health]<br> | |||
[https://theotherjournal.com/2008/01/culture-and-psychopathology/ Culture and Psychopathology]<br> | |||
[https://theotherjournal.com/2007/10/your-faith-is-making-you-well-psychotherapy-in-an-orthodox-christian-context/ Your Faith is Making You Well: Psychotherapy in an Orthodox Christian Context] | |||
''See'' — [[Main_Page#HEGE|HEGE Series]]<br> | |||
The [[wikipedia:Hatter_(Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland)|Hatter]] and the [[wikipedia:March_Hare|March Hare]] are referred to as “both <mark>mad</mark>” by the [[wikipedia:Cheshire_Cat|Cheshire Cat]], in [[wikipedia:Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland|''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'']]. | |||
==Fact or Fiction?== | ==Fact or Fiction?== | ||