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MOD•wiki : modernity user manual —
compiled by D.Stall, born Mid-century modern (mid '50s)
created June 2022, from compilation of information begun in the early 2000s
MOD•wiki is critical analysis of Modernity and the basis for The Consumer Resistance™©® against destruction of all Creation. This comes in light of having awakened to the reality that American citizens were derogated to mere consumers — to wage slaves of the totalitarian economic system — stripped of political power and means of production by way of the 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 through trashing Divine Creation.
I hereby charge Modernity with being a lie, based on lies not on truth, the whole truth and nothing but The Truth. The illusory aspect of op art (seen in the logo and banner above) makes for a fitting symbol of Modernity, which I find to also be a form of deception, illusion, or delusion. Op art (short for optical art) is a style of visual art using optical illusions that entered the lexicon of American pop culture in the mid-60s after Time magazine coined the term in 1964.
Truth is essential to humanity and life, because only the truth is real.
See — Pinocchio
It's no wonder then that a lot of fuss is made over truth. But how can anyone know what's truly 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.
See — HEGE Series, Truth, Fact or Fiction?, Reality or Deception (Illusion, Delusion)?
Once in a Lifetime — Talking HeadsOnce In A Lifetime by Talking Heads | SongFacts We're largely unconscious. You know, we operate half awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else, and we haven't really stopped to ask ourselves, 'How did I get here?' — David Byrne
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 (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 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 (The Beast) 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.
When I was growing up in the 50s-60s, a user manual for modern times would have been greatly beneficial for navigating the confusing world back then. Today, need for a user manual for modern times is even more critical than before, as it still appears “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 Cosmos back into Chaos from which Cosmos was created. American Foundations of the contemporary reigning, global form of Modernity are thus found guilty of Love of Money (not of being Christian as right wing political ideologues proclaim), which makes for 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.
See — Consumer Propaganda, Consumerism, Propaganda
The Consumer Resistence™©® fights on hoping in that world to come, Paradise, The Kingdom of Heaven that supercedes Utopia, the materialistic kingdom of man, joyful in the knowledge that even now spiritual 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 life by 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 Other Realm built on Truth that does not die and decay as does this temporal realm built on the lie of the Father of Lies (the Evil One).
See — Emperor’s New Clothes on Substack, Modern Times and other films of Charlie Chaplin
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. — 1 John 2:15-17 The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth! — Revelation 11:18 Love of money is either the chief or a secondary motive at the bottom of everything the Americans do. — Alexis de Tocqueville 1831
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 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. 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 Robin Amis called it.
It's taken me a lifetime to unravel the puzzle of Modernity, and that's what this wiki is about — information gathered and organized in such a way as to aid in seeing through the noise and confusion of the world in which we live, to the heart of Modernity. Something like the Wikipedia controversies won't happen here because I'm sole administrator, but that in itself is an issue of objectivity. It follows then that this site is only as convincing as the evidence and the arguments I present. I follow the principle of what I call C3 methodology — Clear, Concise, Comprehensive (but not exhaustingly exhaustive). The content here is presented for analysis and interpretation; it primarily consists of links to outside information with some quotes from linked pages together with my comments. I also try to include pop culture associations where possible to enable information to make more of a connection with everyday life, and to hammer it home, sink it deep into memory so it sticks.
Information selected and how it's organized is key. For instance, Planned obsolescence is a marketing strategy so I've placed it as a subcategory of Marketing (which is a subcategory of Business). Fashion is a subcategory of Planned obsolescence because it functions in the Economy primarily that way. It could be argued that Fashion is primarily Art or Culture, but that would only obscure the role Fashion plays in the Economy by way of Planned obsolescence, and the role of Economy as the primary idol of Modernity.
MOD•wiki is dedicated to well researched, logical, reasoned analysis and critical thinking, not contentious, empassioned argumentativeness, much less lying, manipulative propaganda, and is the sum total of evidence and exhibits that I compile to argue my case that Modernity is not what it claims or is thought to be. We moderns are pigeons in a type of The Truman Show, where the everyday people we meet aren't actors who are in on the shill, but fellow puppets of the powers that be. When I finish compiling and commenting, and you the reader finish purveying my evidence, exhibits and arguments, then I rest my case for you to judge, jury, and execute your verdict. Each and every one of us has free will to choose, but that comes with the consequence of having to bear responsibility for our choices.
So, let the trial begin!
“Plaintiff call your first witness.”
“Your Honor, I call Modernity to the stand. . . .”
Through The Looking Glass is a metaphor for any time the world appears strange or unfamiliar, for when things get turned around or upside down like Alice inside the mirror. Lewis Carroll's book Through The Looking Glass uses chess and mirrors as themes, with many things mirroring the opposite of reality, such as clocks running backwards. Alice goes through the looking glass (and down the Rabbit-Hole in Alice's Adventures In Wonderland) where she finds a clearly recognizable world, yet one turned around or inside-out, like looking out from inside a mirror.
HEGE (hey-guh) is a mnemonic device for remembering the MOD•wiki informational portals (or Rabbit-Holes) that open into —
The Matrix of Modernity opens into 4 different Rabbit-Holes — Humanity, Economy, Government, and Environment. We moderns can get lost, and all tangled up in them.
Various periods of time within later modernity have had their fads and slang. With the introduction and rise of “smart” phones, text abbreviations have become all the rage, and now everyone's communicating not just in slang, but in acronyms formed from the first letter of each word in a phrase — LOL (laughing out loud) being one of the most ubiquitous.
So, I've coined an acronym for MOD•wiki — HEGE (hey-guh), formed from the first letter of the title of each series of entries or Rabbit-Hole portals on MOD•wiki —
• H-umanity
• E-conomy
• G-overnment
• E-nvironment
And so, onward! HEGE!
Through The Looking Glass
of MOD•wiki we go...
Starting here ⮕ MODERNITY
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