A big difference -perhaps the biggest one - between then and now is social media. Didn't like Bowie, or KISS, or Crue? No matter, you went to the other sections of the record store to pick up your Zeppelin, Creedence or John Coltrane or Rachmaninoff . You didn't have to tell anyone what you liked, and nine times out of ten, *no one cared*. The pre-internet, pre-social media era allowed people to mind their own goddamn business. Now if you don't "like" something on IG, or TikTok or whatever it's considered a cultural avatar in and of itself. What do you *mean* you don't follow Gaga, are you a sexist tRanSpHObe or something BIGOT???
Goddamn I sound old - I am - but I mean it whenever I say I miss the '80s Every. Single. Day.
Also: KISS and Crue and all the others became famous and rich because people liked their music, bought their records, went to their shows.
Nobody really likes the plastic demons at the ESC, but the tax payers are forced to pay for it, and for the whole show, and for the TV networks that are hosting it.
Gosh, this is super evident in movies as well! It's 1 in a hundred now that speaks to something true and resonant. And those do amazingly well in the theaters. People still hunger for it. But the rest is preachy propaganda. No story, all message. And people can FEEL when they're being led and rebel against it. It's icky.
Very true! I felt sick watching Netflix and thought the shows were dark and brought me down to a very low vibration so I cancelled my subscription… and that was back in 2019! I recently watched a “program” on my adult son’s account only to discover that it is even worse now with ramped up predictive programming and sorcery. The negativity is so thick, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch anything on tv unless it’s old fashioned comedy. Why even the documentaries seem to spin woke ideologies like the climate scam or will have at least one gay mix raced couple in the story. Inappropriate and sad.
I threw out the TV when my kids turned teens in the late 1990s. 25 years on, they still don't have a TV. Grandchild is screen-free. To me, it's boring bollocks -- I've got better things to do with my life.
What's amazing is that even the kids FEEL it. They are not buying this grey mush the rainbow brigade is selling. It's fascinating to watch. And hopeful too.
Some history about what has happened to North American radio stations since the days of independents in the 60's/70's to present day would make a great topic for a substack. And what about the days of pirate radio from the UK offshore?
Part of it is conglomeratisation (can that be a word?). All of my local stations were locally owned, and locally advertised on. They played what we wanted to hear, or they played to some other genre that was interested, or they went broke. Clear Channel originated here, bought them all up and they turned to shit. Same songs, over and over and over.
I make my own playlists now. Or I listen to Public Radio jazz. Our local PR station is still locally hosted and I actually know them.
Good Lord, I’m old enough to remember when Voice of America broadcast across the world, and echoed the values of freedom and democracy. I grew up listening to VOA on the radio while living in Libya.
Did you then mature to the point where you realized VoA was pathetic propaganda, and that Libya under Gaddafi was about as good a country as you can get?
Things would be a lot cooler if we could just bring back stadium rock.
That might be the answer to the existence of the universe.
Every stripe and color was there and nobody gave a fuck. Being collectively outraged was the point!
What disgust me is that genX had virtually healed all the racial wounds in this country. I mean what a difference between let's say the early 80's and the mid 90's. By the early 90's we had really turned the corner, but that glide path was still not a soft enough landing for the baiters. And it will never be enough. They know that. They know you can never completely solve for hatred because it is a part of the human condition. This would be in the distant past by 2024 had they let the people heal themselves.
So now we are set back at least two generations. And that's what they want, because of course, making perfect the enemy of good with the human condition is as useless as having a game plan of trying to write a perfect thesis or pitch a perfect game.
We had built a solid foundation, although a little "sloppy and disjointed" (as any organic or "drift" movement/ behavior is), that required hands of many colors.
And because of that it must be burned down. The "process" will never satisfy them no matter the results because the intention is to make the process the penalty. The penalty is not to pay a pound of flesh ...oh no.. that's not good business...the process is to make people think a pound of flesh is on auto-renewal...daily.
Why?
Because it aggravates EVERYONE.....so it's good for biz.
And the recurring "revenue" will keep coming in until people figure out it's the Gillette model...without the potential of a perfect "shave".
Glen Beck and Jason Whitlock were speaking of this just this morning inre: to rap music. They have made it mainstream and it is force fed all through media. They likened it to "lyrical porn".
Definitely. Back then you had to put your money where your mouth was. If certain artists didn't cut it, too bad. Now they can be manufactured and shoved down our throats out of thin air.
I learned my lesson on social media when I was taking courses on Lynda when LinkedIn bought it. all of a sudden there were minders, trolls, and Karens everywhere infesting that platform and criticizing any input. I bailed and remained scarce on all social media since. Substack being my one exception, mainly because so much is at stake since 2020. Frankly, the days when you went to stores to peruse the music, comic books, book stores for real books, video games, and computer software where wonderful. I would find stuff I would never have seen now that everything is online vendors. We lost something when there were no more Blockbuster Videos, Best Buys no longer had all that software to look at and compare for what would suit my needs best. Are we in a brave new world now? I think not. it is one of timidity and compliance for far too many.
Seriously, I'm glad I have no contact with most of these things. One advantage of being old. Every day I spend some time thinking of more ways to 'drop out' and become invisible.
I was sitting at a burger drive in in the late eighties with the windows rolled down eating Varsity Onion rings and listening to the soundtrack to Star Trek: The Voyage home at full volume while my younger sister in high school tried to dive under my car's dashboard. I suppose this would be "drive by nerding without consent."
Your "what do you mean..." put me in mind of a fabulous old New Yorker cartoon. There's a male peacock with its huge fanned-out tail and a dour little female peacock. And the caption is "What d'you mean NO?"
The next generation is usually a backlash. I read a comment the other day somewhere, a grandma asked her grandson if he and his friends liked “woke”. He replied, “woke is for ugly people.” I lol’d.
Bright boy...woke IS for ugly people. And since people on this thread seem to be talking Rock, here's a line from a Dylan song "people just get uglier and I have no sense of time".
Yes, maybe mine too. Another gem, hard to pick a fav from his catalogue. I was drawn to him first musically when I was learning guitar and then because he told the libtards of the day they don't own him.
It's All over Now Baby Blue is another great one from that period. You might find this article that I wrote on his 80th birthday an interesting read: https://www.city-journal.org/bob-dylan-at-80. You might well disagree with it though because I think (and say) that he basically lost the muse (with a few exceptions) around 1980. (and I got a fair bit of stick from some of the commentary). Good talking to you anyhow.
I've enjoyed all your work. And I was tracking right along with your Dylan at 80 piece too. I think his story is pretty much how the rock/pop/folk stardom and success story goes, not unlike athletes or even comedians. This is the only job they ever had or wanted. They are the last ones to admit that they are past their prime and on the decline. Being an old time boxing fan I think of the great heavyweight champ Joe Louis who, when asked if he ever thought about declining skills and losing a fight, said "Yes, but you tell yourself, not tonight, and not to that guy". Pleasure talking to you- rock on GC!
Wonderfully done. Ran it by my smallish but disproportionately fierce Maine Coon. Her reply was typical: "Where's breakfast?"
My father, an old-school journalist and baseball writer, commented on the politicization of everything just before he passed away back in 2007: "We can be ideologues," he told me, "or we can be competent. But we can't be both."
Agitprop pays mediocre artists to produce mediocre propaganda...
Good post. I disagree, however, that certain identities should not be attacked or called into question though. This "obey and validate me" dynamic is pretty clearly a consequence of allowing too many vapid women into positions of authority.
When they do things like bring identity politics into work (for example - they also do it to the military, to schools, and wherever else they hold sway), they don't actually have an objective in doing so. Forcing you to listen to them is the whole reason they're doing it. It's the dynamic of that old "It's Not About the Nail" skit. "More women of color doing whatever" isn't an objective. It has no success criteria. People turn a blind eye to how often women do this sort of thing because it highlights why we have sex-based roles in the first place.
The real danger, I should note, isn't from obnoxious, authoritarian women. It's when this behavior drives men to a "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" mindset. That's when things get nasty, French Revolution style.
Gen Alpha is definitely leaning in to racial stereotypes for humor. I see it all the time in my 5th grader and his friends. A kid of Chinese descent gave himself a "yellow card" in recess soccer and they all thought it was hilarious.
I feel there is a fundamental difference between that expression in the 80s and what's happening now, or 'woke'. And that is genuinity. What's happening today is not genuine. That's why it doesn't fit and nobody likes it. The agenda behind it stinks through.
No, I’m not going to post the link you can look it up yerself ya lazy bums! I highly recommend checking out Jerry Seinfelds commencement speech at Duke, of all places. It’s refreshing.
When people can´t affirm themselves they end up demanding other people provide affirmation. Unfortunately, the affirmation of others can never truly fill that hole. I think this is the crux of the problem.
Part of what feels different is that, back then, the grown ups were in the room, disapproving in a (mostly, ahem, Tipper Gore, radical religious right) benign way.
But now, the supposed adults are cowed and tyrannized by petulant children.
Deviant art is supposed to be deviant. It can’t also be mainstream. If Marylin Manson and Barry Manilow are both on CNBCs playlist, we lose the dynamic tension of the yin/yang chaos/order interplay that strengthens a society towards low time preference and longevity.
"Part of what feels different is that, back then, the grown ups were in the room, disapproving in a (mostly, ahem, Tipper Gore, radical religious right) benign way.
But now, the supposed adults are cowed and tyrannized by petulant children."
I think that this completely sums up the failure of Government Education.
I would equate the woke agenda to forcing your religion on someone under penalty of _________. Usually, the result of rejecting this ideology/religion is being canceled. You might also be fired from your job. You can be trashed online with far-reaching consequences (see recent Harrison Butker graduation speech). Even the Kansas City newspapers are calling for him to lose his job for his traditional/conservative Catholic beliefs. Do these same newspapers ask for people who follow the woke religion to be canceled and lose their jobs for their beliefs? I think we all know the answer is, "no."
You have covered a lot of ground and you are partially right. The problem with your analysis is that you have left God out. Secularists always do this. They leave out the greatest source of wisdom and knowledge the world has ever knowm because God has shown us the ending in advance.. The Bible explains what is happening very well, and just like Rome before us, society is going down the sewer pipe and eventually the country will be destroyed. It doesn't happen instantly, it takes time, but it has happened before (the part you got right) and it will happen again. The difference is this time God will clean it up for good. There is no point in going into great detail here because unbelievers will reject it out of hand as they always do. The point is to open your mind and read your Bible in preparation for eternity because it is coming up on us fast.
There are but two flags on the battlefield: Christ and the Devil.
Materialism, Rationalism, Sophistry, Enlightenment thinking aren't going to get around this truth in 2024 or any other year since Jesus came and changed Western Civilization for the better.
As people continue to reject God and the Church, Western Civ peters on the fumes of Judeo-Christian thought, into the madness of secular humanistic hell-on-earth.
I believe we are very close to what Jesus called the end of the age, the end of time based on the writings of the 12th chapter of Daniel and other books of the Bible. Even without the Bible, it is obvious there is a creator God. Fortunately, we have the Bible, and God told us what to expect as we draw closer to the end of the age. The things taking place fit the description of conditions necessary for the return of Christ more so than anytime in history. Israel is once again reconstituted as a nation, the increase of evil, programmable digital money, men playing God in labs, and the WEF are on the short list. Modern man considers himself too smart and sophisticated to believe the Bible, but its prophecies down through the centuries continue to be accurate.
There are many more articles you could read, but this is enough. The point being: the time is late and there are no prophecies necessary to be fulfilled before Christ returns.
Mat_24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
There are no fence-sitters in eternity. To not decide is to reject the claims of Christ and seal your fate. The only question that must be settled before death - What must I do to be saved? https://www.gotquestions.org/how-can-I-be-saved.html
Laplace was talking about carrying out 7th order perturbation theory to correct 'wobbly' orbits in the planets caused by *planetary* gravity. A tour de force, to be sure. But mathematics is axiomatic, so once the axioms are set, no other information is needed. The results, of course, are either arid (Goedel) or fruitful (Laplace) depending on whether or not they reflect the physical world.
A big difference -perhaps the biggest one - between then and now is social media. Didn't like Bowie, or KISS, or Crue? No matter, you went to the other sections of the record store to pick up your Zeppelin, Creedence or John Coltrane or Rachmaninoff . You didn't have to tell anyone what you liked, and nine times out of ten, *no one cared*. The pre-internet, pre-social media era allowed people to mind their own goddamn business. Now if you don't "like" something on IG, or TikTok or whatever it's considered a cultural avatar in and of itself. What do you *mean* you don't follow Gaga, are you a sexist tRanSpHObe or something BIGOT???
Goddamn I sound old - I am - but I mean it whenever I say I miss the '80s Every. Single. Day.
Also: KISS and Crue and all the others became famous and rich because people liked their music, bought their records, went to their shows.
Nobody really likes the plastic demons at the ESC, but the tax payers are forced to pay for it, and for the whole show, and for the TV networks that are hosting it.
that's an interesting insight.
what we had was a market. what's being shoveled now is a form of soviet style political programming and affirmative action..
i like that.
Gosh, this is super evident in movies as well! It's 1 in a hundred now that speaks to something true and resonant. And those do amazingly well in the theaters. People still hunger for it. But the rest is preachy propaganda. No story, all message. And people can FEEL when they're being led and rebel against it. It's icky.
Very true! I felt sick watching Netflix and thought the shows were dark and brought me down to a very low vibration so I cancelled my subscription… and that was back in 2019! I recently watched a “program” on my adult son’s account only to discover that it is even worse now with ramped up predictive programming and sorcery. The negativity is so thick, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch anything on tv unless it’s old fashioned comedy. Why even the documentaries seem to spin woke ideologies like the climate scam or will have at least one gay mix raced couple in the story. Inappropriate and sad.
I threw out the TV when my kids turned teens in the late 1990s. 25 years on, they still don't have a TV. Grandchild is screen-free. To me, it's boring bollocks -- I've got better things to do with my life.
What's amazing is that even the kids FEEL it. They are not buying this grey mush the rainbow brigade is selling. It's fascinating to watch. And hopeful too.
Some history about what has happened to North American radio stations since the days of independents in the 60's/70's to present day would make a great topic for a substack. And what about the days of pirate radio from the UK offshore?
eg: Howard Stern. And Jimmy Kimmel too.
They became famous and rich because they were Pirates.
Then they became Parrots.
I'm sure there's a Jimmy Buffett song about this somewhere.🤔
Part of it is conglomeratisation (can that be a word?). All of my local stations were locally owned, and locally advertised on. They played what we wanted to hear, or they played to some other genre that was interested, or they went broke. Clear Channel originated here, bought them all up and they turned to shit. Same songs, over and over and over.
I make my own playlists now. Or I listen to Public Radio jazz. Our local PR station is still locally hosted and I actually know them.
Local, local, local is always the best.
Good Lord, I’m old enough to remember when Voice of America broadcast across the world, and echoed the values of freedom and democracy. I grew up listening to VOA on the radio while living in Libya.
Did you then mature to the point where you realized VoA was pathetic propaganda, and that Libya under Gaddafi was about as good a country as you can get?
Yeah, about 20 years ago!
Things would be a lot cooler if we could just bring back stadium rock.
That might be the answer to the existence of the universe.
Every stripe and color was there and nobody gave a fuck. Being collectively outraged was the point!
What disgust me is that genX had virtually healed all the racial wounds in this country. I mean what a difference between let's say the early 80's and the mid 90's. By the early 90's we had really turned the corner, but that glide path was still not a soft enough landing for the baiters. And it will never be enough. They know that. They know you can never completely solve for hatred because it is a part of the human condition. This would be in the distant past by 2024 had they let the people heal themselves.
So now we are set back at least two generations. And that's what they want, because of course, making perfect the enemy of good with the human condition is as useless as having a game plan of trying to write a perfect thesis or pitch a perfect game.
We had built a solid foundation, although a little "sloppy and disjointed" (as any organic or "drift" movement/ behavior is), that required hands of many colors.
And because of that it must be burned down. The "process" will never satisfy them no matter the results because the intention is to make the process the penalty. The penalty is not to pay a pound of flesh ...oh no.. that's not good business...the process is to make people think a pound of flesh is on auto-renewal...daily.
Why?
Because it aggravates EVERYONE.....so it's good for biz.
And the recurring "revenue" will keep coming in until people figure out it's the Gillette model...without the potential of a perfect "shave".
Glen Beck and Jason Whitlock were speaking of this just this morning inre: to rap music. They have made it mainstream and it is force fed all through media. They likened it to "lyrical porn".
Definitely. Back then you had to put your money where your mouth was. If certain artists didn't cut it, too bad. Now they can be manufactured and shoved down our throats out of thin air.
I learned my lesson on social media when I was taking courses on Lynda when LinkedIn bought it. all of a sudden there were minders, trolls, and Karens everywhere infesting that platform and criticizing any input. I bailed and remained scarce on all social media since. Substack being my one exception, mainly because so much is at stake since 2020. Frankly, the days when you went to stores to peruse the music, comic books, book stores for real books, video games, and computer software where wonderful. I would find stuff I would never have seen now that everything is online vendors. We lost something when there were no more Blockbuster Videos, Best Buys no longer had all that software to look at and compare for what would suit my needs best. Are we in a brave new world now? I think not. it is one of timidity and compliance for far too many.
LinkedIn is now a complete abomination. I've made mine as minimal and hard-to-find as possible.
Linkedin? What's that?
Seriously, I'm glad I have no contact with most of these things. One advantage of being old. Every day I spend some time thinking of more ways to 'drop out' and become invisible.
We are the product. Sadly!
🎯 and the marks.
you still have a choice, you can not go on all these social media and stay on Substack :D
Oh for sure. I deleted SurveillanceBook in 2011 and never looked back.
I was sitting at a burger drive in in the late eighties with the windows rolled down eating Varsity Onion rings and listening to the soundtrack to Star Trek: The Voyage home at full volume while my younger sister in high school tried to dive under my car's dashboard. I suppose this would be "drive by nerding without consent."
Now I must go to Atlanta...haven't thought about The Varsity for years...OMG.
Your "what do you mean..." put me in mind of a fabulous old New Yorker cartoon. There's a male peacock with its huge fanned-out tail and a dour little female peacock. And the caption is "What d'you mean NO?"
♥♥ Since I can't seem to heart anything.
I know! What's with that?!
"Rachmaninov"
https://youtu.be/ksZ-fk2LX7E?si=VuJzO28sKFAmnMJd
The next generation is usually a backlash. I read a comment the other day somewhere, a grandma asked her grandson if he and his friends liked “woke”. He replied, “woke is for ugly people.” I lol’d.
Bright boy...woke IS for ugly people. And since people on this thread seem to be talking Rock, here's a line from a Dylan song "people just get uglier and I have no sense of time".
Yes, GC, Dylan. He said it well about 60 yrs ago-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBNWkCsmqAY
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again...Blonde on Blonde is still my favorite Dylan album 60 years on.
Yes, maybe mine too. Another gem, hard to pick a fav from his catalogue. I was drawn to him first musically when I was learning guitar and then because he told the libtards of the day they don't own him.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he, or she, or them, or it
That you belong to
[Chorus]
But though the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
It's All over Now Baby Blue is another great one from that period. You might find this article that I wrote on his 80th birthday an interesting read: https://www.city-journal.org/bob-dylan-at-80. You might well disagree with it though because I think (and say) that he basically lost the muse (with a few exceptions) around 1980. (and I got a fair bit of stick from some of the commentary). Good talking to you anyhow.
I've enjoyed all your work. And I was tracking right along with your Dylan at 80 piece too. I think his story is pretty much how the rock/pop/folk stardom and success story goes, not unlike athletes or even comedians. This is the only job they ever had or wanted. They are the last ones to admit that they are past their prime and on the decline. Being an old time boxing fan I think of the great heavyweight champ Joe Louis who, when asked if he ever thought about declining skills and losing a fight, said "Yes, but you tell yourself, not tonight, and not to that guy". Pleasure talking to you- rock on GC!
“Word salad from long expired produce” is an instant classic!
Wonderfully done. Ran it by my smallish but disproportionately fierce Maine Coon. Her reply was typical: "Where's breakfast?"
My father, an old-school journalist and baseball writer, commented on the politicization of everything just before he passed away back in 2007: "We can be ideologues," he told me, "or we can be competent. But we can't be both."
Agitprop pays mediocre artists to produce mediocre propaganda...
"perpetually provoked prickly protest peon"
Love me some alliteration.
Good post. I disagree, however, that certain identities should not be attacked or called into question though. This "obey and validate me" dynamic is pretty clearly a consequence of allowing too many vapid women into positions of authority.
When they do things like bring identity politics into work (for example - they also do it to the military, to schools, and wherever else they hold sway), they don't actually have an objective in doing so. Forcing you to listen to them is the whole reason they're doing it. It's the dynamic of that old "It's Not About the Nail" skit. "More women of color doing whatever" isn't an objective. It has no success criteria. People turn a blind eye to how often women do this sort of thing because it highlights why we have sex-based roles in the first place.
The real danger, I should note, isn't from obnoxious, authoritarian women. It's when this behavior drives men to a "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" mindset. That's when things get nasty, French Revolution style.
Gen Alpha is definitely leaning in to racial stereotypes for humor. I see it all the time in my 5th grader and his friends. A kid of Chinese descent gave himself a "yellow card" in recess soccer and they all thought it was hilarious.
I feel there is a fundamental difference between that expression in the 80s and what's happening now, or 'woke'. And that is genuinity. What's happening today is not genuine. That's why it doesn't fit and nobody likes it. The agenda behind it stinks through.
No, I’m not going to post the link you can look it up yerself ya lazy bums! I highly recommend checking out Jerry Seinfelds commencement speech at Duke, of all places. It’s refreshing.
It was brilliant.
When people can´t affirm themselves they end up demanding other people provide affirmation. Unfortunately, the affirmation of others can never truly fill that hole. I think this is the crux of the problem.
"pulling the tails of these crybully scolds turns out to be quite a lot of fun" - YES!!! It IS!
Part of what feels different is that, back then, the grown ups were in the room, disapproving in a (mostly, ahem, Tipper Gore, radical religious right) benign way.
But now, the supposed adults are cowed and tyrannized by petulant children.
Deviant art is supposed to be deviant. It can’t also be mainstream. If Marylin Manson and Barry Manilow are both on CNBCs playlist, we lose the dynamic tension of the yin/yang chaos/order interplay that strengthens a society towards low time preference and longevity.
"Part of what feels different is that, back then, the grown ups were in the room, disapproving in a (mostly, ahem, Tipper Gore, radical religious right) benign way.
But now, the supposed adults are cowed and tyrannized by petulant children."
I think that this completely sums up the failure of Government Education.
It's an irredeemable monster
I would equate the woke agenda to forcing your religion on someone under penalty of _________. Usually, the result of rejecting this ideology/religion is being canceled. You might also be fired from your job. You can be trashed online with far-reaching consequences (see recent Harrison Butker graduation speech). Even the Kansas City newspapers are calling for him to lose his job for his traditional/conservative Catholic beliefs. Do these same newspapers ask for people who follow the woke religion to be canceled and lose their jobs for their beliefs? I think we all know the answer is, "no."
"i’d rock it again if i still had the plumage for it."
Ditto
You have covered a lot of ground and you are partially right. The problem with your analysis is that you have left God out. Secularists always do this. They leave out the greatest source of wisdom and knowledge the world has ever knowm because God has shown us the ending in advance.. The Bible explains what is happening very well, and just like Rome before us, society is going down the sewer pipe and eventually the country will be destroyed. It doesn't happen instantly, it takes time, but it has happened before (the part you got right) and it will happen again. The difference is this time God will clean it up for good. There is no point in going into great detail here because unbelievers will reject it out of hand as they always do. The point is to open your mind and read your Bible in preparation for eternity because it is coming up on us fast.
All this right here.
There are but two flags on the battlefield: Christ and the Devil.
Materialism, Rationalism, Sophistry, Enlightenment thinking aren't going to get around this truth in 2024 or any other year since Jesus came and changed Western Civilization for the better.
As people continue to reject God and the Church, Western Civ peters on the fumes of Judeo-Christian thought, into the madness of secular humanistic hell-on-earth.
Napolean: "So, tell me Simon. Where does God fit into your mathematical work?
Laplace: "Sir, I have no need of that hypothesis."
https://tinyurl.com/4yrsayzc
"The difference is this time God will clean it up for good."
Why _this_ time?
I believe we are very close to what Jesus called the end of the age, the end of time based on the writings of the 12th chapter of Daniel and other books of the Bible. Even without the Bible, it is obvious there is a creator God. Fortunately, we have the Bible, and God told us what to expect as we draw closer to the end of the age. The things taking place fit the description of conditions necessary for the return of Christ more so than anytime in history. Israel is once again reconstituted as a nation, the increase of evil, programmable digital money, men playing God in labs, and the WEF are on the short list. Modern man considers himself too smart and sophisticated to believe the Bible, but its prophecies down through the centuries continue to be accurate.
What prophecies in the Bible have come to pass?
Some of the information in these links overlap, but they all shed light on your question. For instance: the 1st link includes mathematical probability from a group of secular research scientists but is not an exhaustive list. https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/fulfilled-prophecy-evidence-for-the-reliability-of-the-bible
2nd link: https://prophecyalerts.com/10-bible-prophecies-that-have-all-come-to-pass/
In addition, the general conditions on earth at the time of the end are:
Wars and rumors of them (Matthew 24:6; Luke 21:9-10)
Famine and disease (Matthew 24:7; Luke 21:11)
Natural disasters (Matthew 24:7; Luke 21:11)
Persecution (Matthew 24:9-10; Luke 21:12, 16)
Strange phenomena in the sky (Matthew 24:29; Luke 21:25)
Although these are not the sole indicators of the end of the world, they have been popping up in the news and letting us know we’re getting closer.
People in the last days:
2 Timothy 3:1-5 tells us the characteristics of many of these people. They will be:
Lovers of themselves and pleasure (verses 1, 4)
Lovers of money (verse 1)
Boastful, haughty, and proud (verses 1-2)
Unholy and dishonoring to God (verse 1)
Disobedient to their parents and traitors (verses 1, 4)
Unthankful, unloving, unforgiving (verses 1-2)
Brutal, without self-control, headstrong, and slanderous (verses 3-4)
There are also many books that address an underlying question, is God real?
https://www.amazon.com/Proofs-that-Bible-Inspired-Word-ebook/dp/B0134831NM
There are many more articles you could read, but this is enough. The point being: the time is late and there are no prophecies necessary to be fulfilled before Christ returns.
Mat_24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
There are no fence-sitters in eternity. To not decide is to reject the claims of Christ and seal your fate. The only question that must be settled before death - What must I do to be saved? https://www.gotquestions.org/how-can-I-be-saved.html
Laplace was talking about carrying out 7th order perturbation theory to correct 'wobbly' orbits in the planets caused by *planetary* gravity. A tour de force, to be sure. But mathematics is axiomatic, so once the axioms are set, no other information is needed. The results, of course, are either arid (Goedel) or fruitful (Laplace) depending on whether or not they reflect the physical world.
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"....a societal scupper of cluster B aficionados”..." <--------why I come here often.
It's what keeps me coming back.