2 Timothy 3

"You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times.  For people will love only themselves and their money.  They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful.  They will consider nothing sacred.  They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control.  They will be cruel and hate what is good.  They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.  They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly.  Stay from people like that."   

All righty then....  Sound like anything you recognize?  

Upon reflecting upon reflecting upon what I have blogged in the last day or two, upon reflecting it dawned on me how America is different.  What is different about America now than previously?  To be blunt persecuted Jews escaped Nazi Germany and sought solace in America.  Yea!  "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."  Sound familiar?  Probably not since a traditional American education has been stunted.  We can't say the Pledge of Allegiance or the Lord's Prayer in schools.  Do you think children are going to hear these anywhere else?  Of course not.  In preparing for the above quoted scenario, those people in creating a vacuum for their on iniquitous behavior grievously have starved the children of America of their true inheritance.  Instead they are zombies.  It is possibly through genetic heritage, which we have seen throughout history, good may prevail.  There are too many examples of martyrs coming from nothing.  Genetics are strong and possibly one thing that will save humanity.  Nature verses Nurture.  If were were to succumb to modern nature, we would be what we are now.  Oh.  All ready we have failed.  Nature has been abandoned, and the millennial generation is her metaphor.  Let's hope nurture will kick in and save us.  What is different about America now, today?  What is different is the LGBT movement, equal rights for women, and the reversal of woman as the sex symbol.  I remember when it changed.  Sexualization of women began to disappear and instead men became the enticing images.  This change's metaphor was the emergence of Pop/Country onto America's music charts.  It was nauseating. I remember it clearly.  Scantily-clad cowboys dripping in sweat, five o'clock shadow, hairy chest exposed jerking off a crowd of manic women.  It hasn't changed.  Pop/Country remains one of America's top musical draws.  Fine.  It repulses me.  As a grown adult man, who would I choose for which to buy a concert ticket?  Certainly not a stage full of hairy men.  Pop/Country in no way resembles America's traditional country music, just as most things today don't resemble what once they were.  They have been transformed into sexualized commodities, cheap images, to sell tickets.  Perhaps the Rolling Stones and the Beatles served the same purpose.  What is the difference, Led Zepellin singing polyrhythmic blues, or cowboys playing pop?  First pop music by nature is not capable of the same influence on society.  I have said it before.  It does not swing.  If something does not "Swing" it selfishly does not leave room for a response to its decree.  It just pounds the anvil with might, ignoring those around it.  Swing desires a response to its message.  It realizes that like man, it can not be happy and fulfilled alone.  It seeks the comfort of others, camaraderie, kinship, and fellowship, kind of like church, before the concept of church in America was defamed.  Our active campaign to defame God, His church, and organized religion has resulted in what America is now.  We are an extremist, terrorist, fascist cell in disguise.  Extremism has entered America not only on hijacked airplanes, but proudly and happily riding on the coattails of our media.  Whether it is or what was Hollywood, network television, or the internet, extremism is in America because we have sold out to foreign interest without vetting.  The almighty dollar again has risen for the Wall Street crew, and manipulating data on high speed computer networks, has sold America to the dogs.  There is no one else to blame.  I don't hate Trump supporters.  I do hold them responsible for electing T.  It is their fault.  They know not what they do.  Persecuted Jews of Nazi Germany sought solace in America, and with their earned money built Hollywood, a fantasy.  Hollywood was their projection of what the world should be like.  Glamour.  Romance.  Art.  It was and still is vital, energizing, and representative.  It should continue to be.  Is it possible?  I think not.  Reading the Biblical scripture quoted above, it is startling that I perceive the world this way.  To me this has become the norm.  Where else can you see otherwise?  What has changed about America?  First and foremost romance has lost favor in film and television.  That is because millennials with dollars don't understand it.  They have been reared on violent Japanese video games, hence this is what they want.  Do these foreign influences deserve blame for violence in America?  Of course.  Most of what is happening in America does not result from American influence.  We are a neutered society and are impotent.  America's great might, her moxy, has been castrated and replaced with ta ta towels.  Women, if performing the equal job of men, should be paid the same.  That never will mitigate the disparity in Hollywood, because although Hollywood traditionally championed romance, also it was sexist.  America always has been sexist, because it was affluent white men who controlled the purse strings.  Still it is happening today, although we have more women CEO's than ever before.  Just because you are a woman, Betsy Devos, does not mean you are capable.  It just means you are a friend of the family, a confidant who will not commit mutiny like Mike Pence.  Pence is a Nazi.  Just look at him.  His idol is Dick Cheney.  It is a tough pickle, Grandmaster Dragon of the KKK, or Hitler.  How about Bernie Sanders?  How about Rick Santorum?  How about Ralph Nader?  America is different because we abandoned heterosexual romance as our major social dynamic.  What?  The majority of the popular music in America centered around heterosexual romance.  Early country music?  Marriage.  Break up.  What else was there?  Big Band Swing?  Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, and Foxtrot.  These were heterosexual dances that personified and strengthened the romance between and man and a woman.  If a country aspires to change God's order, it would be best to find a more covert location, perhaps the Middle East?  I am not saying there is no room in America for the LGBT movement.  There is, but asking this dynamic to become the norm for America is inappropriate.  Understanding that romance has been the major tenet of America, and that it has been heterosexual romance, could be quite a pill to swallow for the LGBT community.  Oh well.  Changing God's stated plan is best done on the down low, where it has been.  Barack Obama changed some of that, and I did not agree.  I know all too well the residual scum that floats to the surface when maladjusted gay men are bottled in a ship.  It brings new meaning to the phrase, "Cock Block."  In twelve years of working on ships, I got lucky never.  It was not allowed.  The Communist regime is alive and well on ships, and you are not allowed the freedoms provided by the U.S. Constitution.  You accept it for the paycheck.  Carnival was not like this, but other companies based in Europe are.  It is how my friend puts it, Eurotrash.  Trickle down Socialism that has gone awry.  I wish I could feel the freedom of America again, but I don't.  As long as we are after the treasures in other countries, America's image and therefore quality of life never will be the same.  We need to get out of the Middle East.  Thank you.