Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Here is my friend, Balint Vazsonyi, concert pianist, playing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, my favorite rendition. Balint escaped from Soviet Hungary during the defeated Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and established himself in the West as a top rank concert pianist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFGkzGNeW0c
On Washington weekends in order to introduce my young son to the remnants of civilized life, we would go to the residence of Balint and his highly musically talented wife, Barbara, and Balint and Barbara would play for us. Then we would go to a French restaurant and enjoy the haute cuisine that can no longer be found in American restaurants. My son learned how to order, but what we ordered is no longer available.
Over the course of my life I have watched the American people, indeed, the peoples of the West, abandon civilization and civilized behavior. Today nothing is important throughout the Western World except money. Even people with money don’t care what they look like. People dress like slobs. They behave worse. Four-letter words are common parlance in conversations between men and women. There is no longer such a thing as “polite society.”
Feminism taught women to throw away chastity and to be promiscuous, and with chastity went female modesty. When I walk on the beach, females from young girls to grandmothers are sporting the stripper’s G-String, Their entire buttocks are displayed. The tiny patch in front gets smaller and smaller. Not long ago I saw a young women without a top. She had two strips of tape across her nipples.
It wasn’t that long ago that feminists were claiming the men had turned women into sex objects. What nonsense. What man wants his 14,15,16, 17, 18 year old daughter or his wife displaying their nakedness to the public?
Not long ago there was a news report that a young woman had offered her virginity for sale on the Internet. I have been trying to imagine what my mother and my aunts’ reaction would have been to such a report. It is now common for attractive young women in naked provocative poses to advertise online: “I am selling my pussy.” Is this a prostitute soliciting customers? What has become of women? How did American girls get turned into harlots?
Wherever you look, all standards have come down. It wasn’t that long ago that American women would not appear in pubic or in a department store without being in a suit or a dress with stockings and high heels. Now you can’t tell by looking the rich from the poor.
Sin spreads like contagion when sexual perversion is normalized and when the accumulation of money is the social goal, no matter how it is acquired. The result is that the social resistance to sin and depravity weakens. Today the governments of the Western World cheer on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. “Christian” Evangelical ministers claim that with genocide of the Palestinians, Israel is only taking what God gave them. The fact that God dispelled the Jews for their wickedness is left out of the discussion.
This is so sick that it shows that Christianity is no longer a force for moral, humane behavior. If Israel can exterminate Palestine, anything goes.
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/were-the-biblical-prophets-anti-semitic/
For decades the main function of education in the West has been to demonize the West and to present the West as an exploiter of the non-white world. This long-established campaign against the West was intended to destroy the West, not to reform it. The gentile agnostic liberals and the Zionists led the campaign to discredit and undermine the West.
The campaign for the destruction of Western Civilization has succeeded.
Will the neoconservative delusion that Washington is independent of reality and can purchase US hegemony while showing itself to the world as the enabler of Palestine genocide come crashing down?
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Right. We must seek and preserve goodness and elegance.
But new generations will continue to down grade society. They condone just about anything and are brought up in gov. schools with parents who don’t teach ethics or values because they are too busy on social media and video games when they get home from work.
Put a Chick in it and Make Her Gay. And Lame.
Are we hag-ridden? Yes, yes we are.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/put-a-chick-in-it-and-make-her-gay
The destruction of the West, including all depop, all the time.
Just wait until ‘lame’ becomes literal rather than figurative.
Marvel movies will portray folks with “special” powers.
Prez LBJ’s “Great Society” helped, too:
Black Leaders of 65% Black Memphis – America’s Largest Black Majority City – Admit: Even If the National Guard Patrolled the Streets, Black Violent Crime Would Still be a Problem
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/black-leaders-of-65-black-memphis-americas-largest-black-majority-city-admit-even-if-the-national-guard-patrolled-the-streets-black-violent-crime-would-still-be-a-problem/
They’re Not Making Aryan Charles Lindberg Types the Way They Used to
https://www.unz.com/isteve/theyre-not-making-aryan-charles-lindberg-types-the-way-they-used-to/
Candace Owens as Lindbergh baby.
New Orleans almost 60% black. Carjackings by teens, high murder rate.
“Israel is only taking what God gave them. The fact that God” never gave them Gaza “is left out of the discussion.”
It was a stupid discussion.
And since it has been going on along the same lines, by force of arms more often than not, for thousands of years, I don’t actually expect it to become more intelligent any time in the immediate future.
The fact that Gaza and the West bank were part of Israel seems to elude people.
David brought Goliath down, and Samson brought the house down, so Gaza was prevented from bringing Israel down, but the Israelites/Judeans never brought Gaza down, nor was it part of Canaan.
GCP, what does the Bible say? I am ashamed to say that I do not know.
God made a promise to the physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob (Israel) that they would possess a large swath of land in the Middle East. That promise is forever.
Isaiah 60:21 KJB… “Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of MY planting, the work of MY hands, that I may be glorified.”
He made a covenant with them that, IF they kept all the commitments, THEN would God deliver. That old covenant was destined to fail as people are incapable of keeping it, and provision was made for the new. The history of Israel is a roller coaster of ups and downs.
When God checked in with them last, during Christs earthly ministry to them, He found them wanting once again and they were destroyed yet again; but not until the new covenant made an appearance in early Acts! It was cut short however…
(Present)
Jesus made a surprise return to the apostle Paul and began this current dispensation of Gods grace where there is neither Jew nor Gentile; any and all are encouraged to simply trust that the blood He shed, He shed to pay the price of sin debt we all owe.
Jesus will come again after the body of Christ (today’s church) is translated out of here and re-establish the promises He made with believing Israel since their beginning. God is not yet finished with them. They will be glorified not because they deserve it but that Gods Name will not be blasphemed in the world. The “little flock” will be resurrected and they will sit in positions of power on the earth.
(Future, this has not happened yet.)
Matthew 19:28-29 KJB… “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration (resurrection) when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.”
We believers today will occupy the heavenly places made void by satans insurrection with the third number of angelic beings that followed him.
The Jerusalem church (them) is the mechanism by which the earth is redeemed back to God via Christ.
The church which is His body (us) is the mechanism by which the heaven is redeemed back to God via Christ.
What we witness today is the manifold wisdom of God in all things earthly and heavenly. The angelic realm is learning from what God is doing with believers today! It’s truly amazing!
Ephesians 3:9-12 KJB… “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.”
The earth will be full of Gods glory someday! We’ll be looking down upon it from above!
Revelation 21-22…
And then, in the dispensation of the fullness of times, God will combine both the heaven and the earth into one and those who chose Him will live in eternity with Him, doing whatever it is He might do next!
Ephesians 1:10 KJB… “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:”
God gave Israel far more than just Gaza and Jerusalem. Yes, He took it away because of their rebellion, but He gave it back again in 1948. When Jesus returns, they will own most of the Middle East.
In 1948 a group of men conspired to form the modern state of Israel. God had nothing to do with that. When He moves, and He surely will, this counterfeit state will be wiped out and a nation of repentant believers will take its place. It will be the channel of blessing always intended to the rest of the world.
Genesis 12:3 KJB… “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
Mankind without what Jesus did for us on the cross and His Spirit to sve us from ourselves has only one outcome,
predicted from the beginning,
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
The coarsening of American discourse cannot be denied. But I am surprised that insouciance wasn’t mentioned.
We have incompetent leaders (Biden and Blinkin) and others who try to meddle in the affairs of other country’s wars and bickering which makes these E.U. leaders last week (Brussels summit) and U.S. leaders meddling look even dumber to the rest of the world. Since we haven’t won a war in almost 80 years now, who are we to dictate to other countries how to fight their war. (Ukraine and Israel, etc) People have quit corp. churches in recent years and now do family fellowship or meet w/ small groups for study and fellowship because they are fed up w/ church scandals and dysfunction. Majority who go strictly for business reasons and/or social activities will keep going not caring about apostasy or if they are lgbtq inclusive. Majority of 501c3 churches and civic org. condone globalism and open borders. This country is ruined and invaders will be motivated and paid to creat chaos they are now given living expenses some are living in unused military facilities, etc. Ref.: tattooed girls, women: what decent man would want them, they will appeal to street gangs, guys in sleezy dives, or men that don’t want commitments. If women have arms, legs neck tattooed they will do most anything else.
As Federal Judge Robert Bork wrote in his book, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” America has done just that in the last 55 years. He and Orwell were prophetic, but even they would have to agree (if they were here today) that things today are much worse than even they could have imagined.
I see pictures posted in my town’s mall of everyday folks walking downtown in the 1940s and 1950s dressed to the ‘nines.’ Today, it’s pajama bottoms and dirty tee shirts – both ‘men’ and women, adorned in prolific tattoos and facial piercings. It’s a place I simple drive through to get to my ultimate destination – home. I see no reason to stop or shop there since it’s also a homeless hangout. That’s today’s America. Welcome to Gomorrah…
Beware of what this is turning into. At first he was doing good then it came to Israel (his real point) and I went uh oh. Israeli BASHING and sure ‘nuf. There it was.
But no mention of Arabs wanting to GENOCIDE Jews or Israel. You know, from the “river to the sea…” I think he ought to mention that…… but didn’t.
I was in a classroom and there were two young handsome army men. One was a helicopter pilot and the other may have been diver or even a Navy SEAL. I was surprised to see one of them use the F – word several times when talking to the other one about something. It was the subject, not about being mad at each other.
I never expected that.
So sad but true!
That was a pretty sneaky way to express your hatred for the Jews. Well of course sin abounds and modesty is out the window in America. But why make bad matters worse by hating Gods Chosen people? It doesn’t make any sense.
Genocide and Ethic Cleansing are not the same. Please learn the difference and apply your views correctly in the future. The distinction is so elementary that your lack of understanding of the difference undermines the entire context of your article.
Not all anerican women are like that. There are still modest women like my Wife and Daughters. And what about the Palestinians and other muslim countries genocide against the Israeli people.