I think it's more a loss of parenting as today's generation is often raised in single parent families or mixed families. People don't try to work out their problems any more and move on from one relationship to the next, dragging the children along with them and hence the children retreat into a shell or have unrealistic dreams and expectations of having it all.
True values are passed from generation to generation and although some values may diminish over generations, hopefully the good ones are sustained by the next generation. When they are not and people quit working on sustaining relationships when there are problems, I think that's where the loss of depth starts to come in and take hold.
I may sound like a conspiracist, but I think that is one of the means of control that is being used against us. The destruction of family values, the destruction of the family unit in general, and the loss of generational wisdom, along with belief in God, all let the government control your life. Thus we have things like the 2030 Agenda and 15 minute cities and a surveillance state / country.
You are no more a conspiracist than I, or any other shrew. The tolerance for "out of the mainstream thinking" is nearly zero, and is always labelled "conspiracy."
This all is, in my opinion, agenda-driven.
Parents are culprits because they too are part of the brainwashing. Its turtles all the way down, as they say, rotten to the core.
I don’t have as many opportunities to talk face to face with young people today but the few I do speak with appear to be overwhelmingly dissatisfied with everything. I see no joy in them. They seem to think it was so much easier for us (Baby Boomers) to acquire the things we have now and are downright resentful. Some want what I have without working for it. They don’t believe that anyone could get out of their parent’s home while making minimum wage (it was $1.60 an hour when I moved into my own apartment); they refuse to drive a clunker car or do without “necessities” like a color tv or the latest fashions. I’ve actually been told “I’m better than that” when I shared how I did without a lot of things while I saved my money until I could buy my first house. I don’t know why young people are like this but I blame the music they listen to (horrible and angry), what they’re being taught in school (to hate America) and social media (poison to the spirit). I don’t know how they were raised so I can only speculate that they might have been given everything they wanted. I have no children of my own so I admit I’m not seeing the situation more intimately, but what I do see doesn’t look good for the future. Again, my contacts are limited and I don’t know about all young people, but for the 99th time I’ll say it - I’m glad I’m old.
You touch on one of my biggest gripes I have when working with my young clients. I tell them, for one example, how important it is to get out on their own, and they refuse to even try that if their lifestyle takes a negative hit.
I remember when living in roach-infested apartments with three other guys was the norm, and definitely a step up from living with mom and dad.
Then there was the day a generation or so back when young men would live in boarding houses sharing rooms and bathrooms with dozens of other young men...and then go to work every day in coal mines for God's sake.
My husband says they never should have gotten rid of the draft; he believes many of the problems we see today are the result of no required military service
That's an interesting thought. Maybe there should be some form of mandatory "draft" for something other than war — perhaps a national service program like a revitalized Peace Corps or a "Clean-Up Corps" focused on infrastructure, environment, or community service.
For young men especially, your husband is right: it pulls them away from dependency on parents and home. Boys often need to be forcibly separated from the maternal sphere and move beyond their father's authority to forge their own identity and kingship. In traditional societies, elder males deliberately initiated boys into manhood through rigorous training — teaching them to hunt, endure sacrifice and suffering, and develop resilience. In a modern context, the draft inadvertently served something like that function for many young men.
Even the experience of war itself provided further initiation. It awakened the warrior archetype alongside the king — not always in the smoothest or most ideal way, but it still forced men to become self-sufficient, to care for their comrades in battle, to sacrifice, and to confront pain and suffering directly.
Unfortunately, the serious downsides of the military draft, along with the questionable purposes it often serves in today’s world, make it something we shouldn’t wish to bring back.
As always - so much to consider here Todd. I think there's little doubt this is 'agenda driven', aiming for total control of the human farm. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the young people have not been captured, what are the odds it would be the same 30 to 35% of the population in that age group that did not succumb to the injection scam? In other words, is it the Young Shrews who are the ones searching for depth and meaning in their lives?
I have friends whose grandchildren were home schooled and raised on hobby farms and in the country. They are young adults now and every one of them (as far as I know) value family first and are following careers in music, the arts, in service... seeking meaning and value in their life path. Interesting, isn't it?
One more thought - could this be the ultimate 'fall of man'? Human consciousness falling into the depths of absolute materialism? The final trap, where the thrill of physicality and the 5 senses locks our awareness into the body and the veil of illusion, and consciousness never again realizes how magnificent it really is? (Not for Shrews of course, only the sheep.)
Sadly, I think there are very few young shrews. I think if there are, they are the misfits, the artists, the poor, the homeless (although the homeless young people have a lot more on their minds than the world order...drug addiction, schizophrenia, etc.) I think most young people a bit high to mid-range on the social/economic scale are sheep. They are probably the most indoctrinated subgroup. MAYBE the children/young adults of super-shrew parents are safe.
I think this very well may be the "ultimate fall of man"...if so, I don't think it will last forever, and will get worse before getting better. A thousand years? Maybe, maybe longer, maybe, but not probably, shorter.
However, it may not be at that point now where this horror is a forgone conclusion. That is why the people who will not be dead in 20 years or so (I will be dead sooner than that) CAN actually, MAYBE do something...I do think there is still hope that this can be turned around. But I think it would take a miracle if it were...and we all know that is possible.
I totally agree... there is still hope and miracles happen every day, both little and big. I have to believe in hope for the young, if we don't have that, what do we have? Not sure I could go on without that....
Another article to stir our senses, Todd. I agree that screens, social media, a lack of connection to spirituality/God, being told what to do and how to think vs using critical thinking analysis, and not playing just to play but playing to achieve. All of these things remove a humanness that you can only experience if you actually feel and experience vs watch and think.
The young people today want what I call, "the movie star lifestyle". They want things. There is no achievement in anything less. You are judged by the job you have, the things you own, the clothes you wear, the car you drive. It all smells like success (so they think). People like this may get something out of the book, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari".
In my eyes, it is human nature to resist this mindless pursuit. But not to begin with, it is human nature to satisfy the senses first, but eventually that wears thin, and people "pass through" that phase. That "passing through" doesn't seem to be happening, and people stick with the hedonistic lifestyle their entire life.
Because this is essentially against human nature (to be a hedonist for a lifetime), I believe this is all agenda-driven and has been since day one. A zombie is easier to control. If everyone is flattened out into the same pancake, then they become predictable and easily manipulated. (Read "Brave New World" or "Fahrenheit 451" for more insight on this idea.)
This realization took a long time for me to reach, but I am pretty confident this is what is going on. Maybe I am paranoid and looking for something to blame, but I don't think so.
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if there was a massive EMP and all the scrying mirrors went dead. Would the addicts collapse into a coma, or would they finally see that they have been bewitched, and throw off their shackles.
When I was in High School, I was fascinated by Poe, he was a Virginian, like me at the time. I wrote an English paper on him, and it was one of the few times I actually applied myself to schoolwork. I have not seriously read him (after High School I lost interest for no reason other than other things interested me!)
Your entry today has sparked something, and I am going to read Poe again (I never got very far back in the day.)
I "fell in love with" Poe's stories at an early age and thoroughly enjoyed the many, somewhat campy movies based upon them. (Vincent Price was a past master at serious camp). Poe was akin to a rather depressed Ambrose Bierce in that he looked at the dark side of the human spirit and demonstrated the evil that arose when it remained unconscious. Happy reading to you:)
I'm afraid it is a "bottom-up" solution, meaning it would take a few generations of change to be wholly effective. There is one thing we could do (but never would) that could be incredibly effective very quickly (top-down solution). Take away cellphones (smartphones) and most social media.
Actually, since taking away social media is a freedom of speech issue, removing the cellphones or access to them would be enough to make a start.
I think it's more a loss of parenting as today's generation is often raised in single parent families or mixed families. People don't try to work out their problems any more and move on from one relationship to the next, dragging the children along with them and hence the children retreat into a shell or have unrealistic dreams and expectations of having it all.
True values are passed from generation to generation and although some values may diminish over generations, hopefully the good ones are sustained by the next generation. When they are not and people quit working on sustaining relationships when there are problems, I think that's where the loss of depth starts to come in and take hold.
I may sound like a conspiracist, but I think that is one of the means of control that is being used against us. The destruction of family values, the destruction of the family unit in general, and the loss of generational wisdom, along with belief in God, all let the government control your life. Thus we have things like the 2030 Agenda and 15 minute cities and a surveillance state / country.
Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
You are no more a conspiracist than I, or any other shrew. The tolerance for "out of the mainstream thinking" is nearly zero, and is always labelled "conspiracy."
This all is, in my opinion, agenda-driven.
Parents are culprits because they too are part of the brainwashing. Its turtles all the way down, as they say, rotten to the core.
I don’t have as many opportunities to talk face to face with young people today but the few I do speak with appear to be overwhelmingly dissatisfied with everything. I see no joy in them. They seem to think it was so much easier for us (Baby Boomers) to acquire the things we have now and are downright resentful. Some want what I have without working for it. They don’t believe that anyone could get out of their parent’s home while making minimum wage (it was $1.60 an hour when I moved into my own apartment); they refuse to drive a clunker car or do without “necessities” like a color tv or the latest fashions. I’ve actually been told “I’m better than that” when I shared how I did without a lot of things while I saved my money until I could buy my first house. I don’t know why young people are like this but I blame the music they listen to (horrible and angry), what they’re being taught in school (to hate America) and social media (poison to the spirit). I don’t know how they were raised so I can only speculate that they might have been given everything they wanted. I have no children of my own so I admit I’m not seeing the situation more intimately, but what I do see doesn’t look good for the future. Again, my contacts are limited and I don’t know about all young people, but for the 99th time I’ll say it - I’m glad I’m old.
You touch on one of my biggest gripes I have when working with my young clients. I tell them, for one example, how important it is to get out on their own, and they refuse to even try that if their lifestyle takes a negative hit.
I remember when living in roach-infested apartments with three other guys was the norm, and definitely a step up from living with mom and dad.
Then there was the day a generation or so back when young men would live in boarding houses sharing rooms and bathrooms with dozens of other young men...and then go to work every day in coal mines for God's sake.
My husband says they never should have gotten rid of the draft; he believes many of the problems we see today are the result of no required military service
That's an interesting thought. Maybe there should be some form of mandatory "draft" for something other than war — perhaps a national service program like a revitalized Peace Corps or a "Clean-Up Corps" focused on infrastructure, environment, or community service.
For young men especially, your husband is right: it pulls them away from dependency on parents and home. Boys often need to be forcibly separated from the maternal sphere and move beyond their father's authority to forge their own identity and kingship. In traditional societies, elder males deliberately initiated boys into manhood through rigorous training — teaching them to hunt, endure sacrifice and suffering, and develop resilience. In a modern context, the draft inadvertently served something like that function for many young men.
Even the experience of war itself provided further initiation. It awakened the warrior archetype alongside the king — not always in the smoothest or most ideal way, but it still forced men to become self-sufficient, to care for their comrades in battle, to sacrifice, and to confront pain and suffering directly.
Unfortunately, the serious downsides of the military draft, along with the questionable purposes it often serves in today’s world, make it something we shouldn’t wish to bring back.
Such thoughtful comments here. I do know some amazing young people....and they are all unvaccinated and homeschooled!
Wow!! That is good news! My circle isn't wide enough then.
As always - so much to consider here Todd. I think there's little doubt this is 'agenda driven', aiming for total control of the human farm. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the young people have not been captured, what are the odds it would be the same 30 to 35% of the population in that age group that did not succumb to the injection scam? In other words, is it the Young Shrews who are the ones searching for depth and meaning in their lives?
I have friends whose grandchildren were home schooled and raised on hobby farms and in the country. They are young adults now and every one of them (as far as I know) value family first and are following careers in music, the arts, in service... seeking meaning and value in their life path. Interesting, isn't it?
One more thought - could this be the ultimate 'fall of man'? Human consciousness falling into the depths of absolute materialism? The final trap, where the thrill of physicality and the 5 senses locks our awareness into the body and the veil of illusion, and consciousness never again realizes how magnificent it really is? (Not for Shrews of course, only the sheep.)
Sadly, I think there are very few young shrews. I think if there are, they are the misfits, the artists, the poor, the homeless (although the homeless young people have a lot more on their minds than the world order...drug addiction, schizophrenia, etc.) I think most young people a bit high to mid-range on the social/economic scale are sheep. They are probably the most indoctrinated subgroup. MAYBE the children/young adults of super-shrew parents are safe.
I think this very well may be the "ultimate fall of man"...if so, I don't think it will last forever, and will get worse before getting better. A thousand years? Maybe, maybe longer, maybe, but not probably, shorter.
However, it may not be at that point now where this horror is a forgone conclusion. That is why the people who will not be dead in 20 years or so (I will be dead sooner than that) CAN actually, MAYBE do something...I do think there is still hope that this can be turned around. But I think it would take a miracle if it were...and we all know that is possible.
I totally agree... there is still hope and miracles happen every day, both little and big. I have to believe in hope for the young, if we don't have that, what do we have? Not sure I could go on without that....
Its a long row to hoe, that's for sure, but efforts in alignment with love (God) tend to go more effortlessly.
Another article to stir our senses, Todd. I agree that screens, social media, a lack of connection to spirituality/God, being told what to do and how to think vs using critical thinking analysis, and not playing just to play but playing to achieve. All of these things remove a humanness that you can only experience if you actually feel and experience vs watch and think.
The young people today want what I call, "the movie star lifestyle". They want things. There is no achievement in anything less. You are judged by the job you have, the things you own, the clothes you wear, the car you drive. It all smells like success (so they think). People like this may get something out of the book, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari".
In my eyes, it is human nature to resist this mindless pursuit. But not to begin with, it is human nature to satisfy the senses first, but eventually that wears thin, and people "pass through" that phase. That "passing through" doesn't seem to be happening, and people stick with the hedonistic lifestyle their entire life.
Because this is essentially against human nature (to be a hedonist for a lifetime), I believe this is all agenda-driven and has been since day one. A zombie is easier to control. If everyone is flattened out into the same pancake, then they become predictable and easily manipulated. (Read "Brave New World" or "Fahrenheit 451" for more insight on this idea.)
This realization took a long time for me to reach, but I am pretty confident this is what is going on. Maybe I am paranoid and looking for something to blame, but I don't think so.
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if there was a massive EMP and all the scrying mirrors went dead. Would the addicts collapse into a coma, or would they finally see that they have been bewitched, and throw off their shackles.
Good thought to ponder. I think they would finally see they have been bewitched, after first collapsing into a temporary coma.
Alone
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Many may be called but few will respond to the internal daimon.
Thank you for sharing this. I have never read Poe and it seems that now, after reading this, is the time!
When I was in High School, I was fascinated by Poe, he was a Virginian, like me at the time. I wrote an English paper on him, and it was one of the few times I actually applied myself to schoolwork. I have not seriously read him (after High School I lost interest for no reason other than other things interested me!)
Your entry today has sparked something, and I am going to read Poe again (I never got very far back in the day.)
I "fell in love with" Poe's stories at an early age and thoroughly enjoyed the many, somewhat campy movies based upon them. (Vincent Price was a past master at serious camp). Poe was akin to a rather depressed Ambrose Bierce in that he looked at the dark side of the human spirit and demonstrated the evil that arose when it remained unconscious. Happy reading to you:)
Poe had a very interesting life aside from his writing!
How do we re-animate them?
I'm afraid it is a "bottom-up" solution, meaning it would take a few generations of change to be wholly effective. There is one thing we could do (but never would) that could be incredibly effective very quickly (top-down solution). Take away cellphones (smartphones) and most social media.
Actually, since taking away social media is a freedom of speech issue, removing the cellphones or access to them would be enough to make a start.