Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone
Jill and I are in Mountain View, California today. It turns out this is a long way from Virginia. And I am not just talking about physical distance.
Between a lovely VIP dinner with lovers of freedom last night and my speaking event tonight, I have an important interview about AI and a podcast with Shannon Joy. That gives me a few hours to get a Substack out. All on West coast time – which shifts us three hours. No problem. Life on the road is something we just adapt to.
As I woke up this morning, my mind turned to last night’s dinner conversation centered around good and evil, the state of the United States, and where do we go from here. How to we take back our country, our constitution, our children, in the face of great evil?
But what is this evil? This amorphous absence of good?
So an hour later in the morning, Jill and I found ourselves in the cafe at the upscale hotel where we are staying. We are temporarily lodging in the heart of “Silicon Valley”, at a hotel on the grounds of the old Moffett AirField. This hotel is mostly populated by California technocrats and business people. Clearly a wealthy, well educated clientele. As I watched the people in the cafe, I am thinking to myself that these should be “our people”, as both Jill and I were born and bred Californians. But the truth is we left California for good in 1996 and have never looked back. The state moved on and luckily for us, so did we.
The people who were starting their day in that cafe were getting coffee, green tea and breakfast. But these adults did not look like enlightened leaders of the free world; they were disheveled, clothing unkept and worn shoes dirtied. Others wore athletic clothes – mostly mismatched. As this was mostly an under-40 crowd; one would expect a certain level of fitness, but in fact most were over weight. Rolls of fat peeking out of too tight clothing. Surprisingly, women in particular seemed to care less what they looked like. All eyes were glued to screens – phones and computers. Even those in groups were quiet – as their attention was fixated on their personal entertainment devices. The absence of passion, the lack of vitality seemed to permeate the air. If there is one word for how people presented themselves, it would be dull. As if some vital essence of life had been sucked from their very souls.
As I observed people beginning their day. I felt a wave of sadness of what the people of this great nation, of the California state which once held such promise, have become.
Which is why the newest Unherd article titled, “America is now a zombie state: Demonic nihilism has infected the nation” (which is behind a paywall) resonated deeply in my soul.
Zombies. We have become a nation of zombies.
From the article:
…the approaching death by senescence of the American experiment in ordered liberty. The problem goes well beyond presidential dementia. The US Senate (from the Latin senex, “old”) looks more like the waiting room of a geriatric neurologist than a council of wise elders. There’s Mitch McConnell, prone to falls and freeze-ups; wheelchair-bound and confused Dianne Feinstein; and John Fetterman, who at only 53 is less fit for public service than any other member of that formerly august body. It’s as if C-SPAN, a network that televises congressional hearings, decided instead to air absurdist, post-apocalyptic horror films.
The zombification of the Capitol — not to mention our city streets, which have become permanent encampments of the dazed and disturbed — is merely a symptom of the underlying disease. Like all institutions, politics falls apart without regular infusions of constructive energy. A modern democracy is healthy only if its major parties grow organically from their voters, representing their interests by habit and inclination even more than conscious effort.But the grassroots politics Tocqueville admired when he visited the US in the 1830s gave way long ago to the top-down astroturfing of technocratic managerialism. Our governing elites represent no one but themselves and their cronies, and they don’t welcome shocks to the system. Insurgent candidates such as Robert Kennedy Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy, whose public elevation of the concerns of many Americans aims to revitalise national politics, are censored and met with active resistance, even by their own parties.
It’s not just in politics that the wellsprings of individual and social vitality have dried up. Americans are marrying less and later, and having too few children, to reproduce themselves and the families that nurtured them. What is more, our public schools have largely ceased to transmit the accumulated knowledge and civilisational wisdom of the past to the children we do have. A taste for historical repudiation has taken hold across the culture, leading curators to “contextualise” art, city governments to take down statues, colleges to rename buildings, and publishers to censor or rewrite books. But creativity withers when it ceases to be nourished by the oxygenated blood of the tradition. Little wonder that Hollywood increasingly cannibalises its legacy by pouring old films into new plastic scripts.
Technology has exacerbated our national enervation. We have become charging-stations for our smartphones, which drain psychic energy with insistent distractions and overloads of information-babble. Video calls and work-from-home limit in-person interactions with actual existing individuals, who would otherwise be together for most of their weekly waking hours. Targeted advertising, fine-tuned algorithms, and politically stratified social media sharply decrease our exposure to new ideas. We are immuring ourselves within our own private caves, watching flickering images in darkness.
AI language-learning models offer a cautionary parable of these larger cultural developments. Programs such as ChatGPT, whose writing remains formulaic and prone to errors, learn by sifting through a sea of digitalised text, a growing share of which consists of AI-generated content. The predictable result of this feedback loop is the kind of levelling we’ve seen across our institutions. Like newspapers that drink their own ink — and which ones don’t, these days? — their product can only get worse.
Cultural exhaustion, social withdrawal, and the general enfeeblement of life forces are the practical expression of a will to nothing. There is a name for this spiritual and intellectual condition, and it is nihilism. Nihilism is demonic to the extent that the will to nothing is still a will, a life force. That it is only a negative one is by no means reassuring, because it is easier and more economical to tear down than to build up. Destruction is dramatic and accomplishes the illusion of vitality with relatively little energy. And who in this apocalyptic time, including the nihilist, doesn’t want to feel even a little alive?
Demonic Nihilism versus A Sense of Purpose
This is our fight. This is a battle of good against evil. Our individual and national sovereignty combined with Judeo-Christian values against a dark force that has no values, no center, no compelling moral compass. Just darkness, an abyss of narcissistic self entertainment and gratification.
What is the root cause of this nihilism? This unholy darkness? How do we fight it? Are people tearing down the very fabric of our nation, just to be able to feel something? A lazy person’s way to feel passion?
Is this great nation to be lost in a single generation, sacrificed on the alter of depersonalizing technology?
The passion to build up versus the passion to tear down is a critical component in all of this. We must build for good, for the future.
We must fight not just to resist the encroachment of evil, but actively for the cause good.
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Are you suggesting the device I read your article on, is habit forming?
“Hi, my name is Tory, I’m a dataholic.”
We admitted that our “news” consumption had become unmanageable.
Anything Dr. Bob suggests is probably going to kill you. He’s a phony, controlled-opposition agent through-and-through.
If you think my opinion of the man is incorrect (I mean, I don’t even know him, I just know a snake when I see one, and… *points at Dr. Bob*), here is the opinion of Karen Kingston, who does know him (and RFK Jr. too, it appears):
Karen Kingston has recently had to flee to Mexico because she says she has already been poisoned a few times, and fears for her life, because she spoke out against the CONVID scam. So don’t be surprised when she shoots herself in the back of the head twice after strangling herself with a thin cord tied to a doorknob, all done while in a sitting position.
He is.
“a pioneer of transhumanism”
What a bullshit accusation. First, show me what he did to ‘pioneer transhumanism’, and more importantly, second, demonstrate that he has not changed his mind in the slightest.
…opinion from a poster that can’t even spell his moniker correctly.
What lies directlty ahead can ONLY be stopped by GOD.
And REVELATIONS hints he has no such plan.
What a time to be alive.
I truly Loath it.
Anything I could have done to change it…………………..?
I NEVER had the power OR the opportunity.
Revelations is the work of people, who have been endowed with free will; ergo, it does NOT have to come to pass.
Exodus 23:2
If you have the littlest faith, you could move mountains . . .
“it does NOT have to come to pass”
Exodus 23:2
“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:”
Clad yourself in the armor of God.
You will be invincible.
This world is of man.
The real “world” is infinite.
That said, do some good here by facing evil and making it pay.
Oh contraire,
This is the greatest time in history to be alive if your a true Christian.
Jesus is coming back very soon to set everything right.
For unbelievers not so much.
It gets much worse before Jesus arrives.
If you are an American Christian, the lion’s din awaits.
Are you unaware or just stupid?
I bet people talked about the second coming with every war.
It’s a conscious choice to be a coworker with God or Satan. Starting the day with Prayer, Meditation, and Contemplation of the spiritual works is the way to be a coworker with God. It takes discipline. Most people take the easy way out. The Vairagi adepts of Eckankar have been teaching this since the dawn of time.
My dream from just before 2020, the plandemic years, had me taking a trip along Big Sur with a brother and friend. I got a ticket for being happy. The cop said. That’s not allowed. Some places have a demonic consciousness. Commiefornia is one.
I did quite a lot of” tripping” in Big Sur” back in the day “as I lived a scant 15 miles or so from there in Monterey . Sorry to joke about it but , yeah I had a “misspent youth ” before I became a being of “pure light” ( kidding again ) . I hadn’t yet started studying Christianity or even buddhism , Greek philosophy and so on at that point in my life . I was learning about Native American religion in those days .
It’s a beautiful place. That’s why we went to a getaway their in the dream.
It is a beautiful place , the whole area from the Monterey Peninsula on down thru Pebble Beach , Seventeen Mile Drive , Carmel , Carmel Valley ( my father, long retired now lives up in the Carmel Valley) right on thru to Big Sur and down to SAn Luis Obispo . When I was a teenager I lived in Monterey with my father. We raced sail boats on the Bay and out of Stillwater Cove ( Pebble Beach . I unfortuntely would not now want to live there because the people have changed since those days back in the seventees and its quite frankly ridiculously expensive . I now live back up in my original Home country around The Hood Canal in the Pacific NorthWest .
Mnemonic Die~ilism
Too hard to remember.
I may have broken my rbain.. ..
Who kwons? … .
Revelation By Chapter
“This section examines the Book of the Revelation chapter-by-chapter and is intended for individual or small group Bible study. In each chapter, we identify the events that will take place in the Last Days and the order in which they will occur. A great way to use this section is to read a chapter from the Revelation and then read the corresponding chapter from the Study Guide. Be sure to read the Introduction, first, as it explains the Last Days, themselves, and how to determine the timing of the events that will take place during this period.”
I am not a Bible scholar. I am a born again Christian.
I know that God wins in the end. It appears to be that the completion of Revelations, most of us (Christian and non christian) do not survive.
Why then do I look forward to living in the end of times?
I am NOT that stupid!
I wish to die and await being called to Heaven (long before the 4 horseman come).
The Rapture is AFTER the Tribulation.
(I thank you for the link to Revelations Bible study).
Biblical illiterates are everywhere.
No wonder the Church is such a confused wreck.
I am not a Bible scholar, either.
Took me a minute to realize it’s Revelation, without the S at the end.
Didn’t really dig into this one either.
Lots of stuff about:
➥ 1) Seal 4 “Kill 1/4” Revelation 6:8
➥ 2) Trumpet 6 “Kill 1/3” Revelation 9:15
➥ 3) 7 Vials of Wrath – “people rarer than fine gold” Isaiah 13:12, Zephaniah 1:2-3
Not into the rapture, However….
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1 Thessalonians 4:16 Context
“13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
This question is asked so often it’s laughable; everybody knows the answer. It’s just that nobody wants to do it because things get really hard afterwards.
“Is this great nation to be lost in a single generation, sacrificed on the alter of depersonalizing technology?”
This has been a long time in the making. It could be claimed that the malevolent forces involved became focused at the birth of the nation to subvert it and bring it down. That would seem to be the base nature of humanity. There are always some willing to destroy for their own enrichment.
“Demonic Nihilism”: Apparently Dr. Malone is the poster child for the subject.
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