(04-05-2024, 10:55 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: I'm not one to fall for the propaganda mill either. I know the tricks so well I don't even bother with social media. I barely look at youtube, unless I'm looking for something specific. I have noticed a rise in doom porn, fear news and all that. They have been laying it on thick since 2020 and it has steadily been increasing in volume.
In my daily life, my surroundings, and my sober minded observations (as well as my empath radar) I have been seeing a rise in heated confrontation and people on edge almost everywhere. Not quite, but there has been a noticeable difference the last few years or so. I live in a safe small little town and we just had our first double homicide. In broad daylight next to our only busy road. We don't have murders here often. Let alone a double homicide.
The young ones are the ones you really have to watch our for. There is, statistically more violent crimes being committed by adolescents and teens than ever before. This is undeniable and these numbers have skyrocketed.
I'm middle aged. Trained well and can handle intense situations. Lately I have been even more alert, and aware of my surroundings, than I ever have been before. Especially around a group of teens.
This is in every race creed and color from what I can see. The ones who were already crazy have gotten even more rabid recently.
My humble two cents.
I consider myself blessed to be in a small backwoods area. But I can feel the change is coming. We have been locked in by the development of new cities, and the growing of the large ones, by corruption and by annexation.
I am trying to hold one to as much of the country as I can, and the citification war, is making some neighborhoods and neighbors closer and stronger. But it is just a futile effort generated by pride. We know that we can't win this fight. We have learned from all the other battles that we are no more than the little mouse that roared. We might lose, but we fought the good fight, and we won't let it be easy for them.
I am also blessed that the only place I see the really foul behavior is on the internet. But the ugliness I have seen, though I have to add that it is also rare, usually comes in the form of impatience and rudest. I know that this is going to intensify, because that is how the whole system is set up.
We have been programmed for so long that it had to become evident to us. Even the most self centered and narcissistic person, will eventually notice the elephant in the room, when the smell becomes apparent, or it steps on their toes. Until that happens, they will remain oblivious to the infiltration to our lives, environment, heart, body and soul.
The young ones are indeed in trouble. The past leaves much to be desired. The future leads to a black hole or to the Matrix. Yet they are only chance.
It is crazy and getting crazier. It is too late to just pull the plug. We have to know our enemy to win this battle. The big drawback and danger we all face, is that our biggest enemy lives within us. Always has. That is why we can see so clearly the speck in someone else's eye, and cannot feel or see the log with embedded in ourselves.
We are human after all.