When I was car shopping in 2018, it seemed that 90% of vehicles were either black, white, silver or grey. I bought a blue car. I can look out into the parking lot of my apartment and it is the same thing.
I see pics of beautiful homes where everything is sterile white or chrome or black outside and inside. How drab. None of this modern crap compares to the warmth and charm of wood...even fake wood or wood-like vinyl.
I don't think it is because of covid necessarily, just a dumbing down of our environments over the last 30 years or so. It is the creep of socialism where everything is bleak, depressing and abysmal. Kind of like a cinder block motel room.
Some other Substacker called the deterioration of everything the "enshittification" of the human condition including his own metabolism, soul and mind ...
Fortunately, only Western societies will succumb to it !!!
I read your book 'Awaken to your Power". The subject is interesting and prompted my recall of past incidents in my life that seem congruent with the theme of non-material 'spiritual connection'. I do not understand much at all about this, do not know how much of it is true, but it is interesting.
Reading and thinking a little about it reminded me of an insight shared by a man years ago. The experience of happiness, maybe even of pleasure, would not be possible except for the fact of limited time in one's life. If life span were eternal, then any "happy experience" would be unimportant, meaningless actually, because the experience could be re-attained any time. So any particular such experience would be so unremarkable as to nearly escape awareness, like drawing in breath and exhaling. In a limited life span, a happy experience is such because of the realization that I experienced this joyous event before it is too late. It is the limits of life that motivate, emotionally color, and inspire action, creativity and inventiveness.
The banality of the present day autos is of course by design as they have no intention of letting us drive in the near future and so they want to kill the old car culture that saw it's heyday in the 50s to early 70s . In my opinion along with the music was the greatest contribution to pleasure this country has ever experienced. A short lived burst of creativity never to be seen or heard again. Kill the arts , block the sun , and just be happy ordering everything on line cause it's easy
The inner is reflecting the outer. Mass programming is working, creating the soulless gray world that is envisioned by soulless entities. Not complying with the limited, selection of things, ideas, or attitudes will become a harbor of sanity. Life is color, form, variety, surprise, novelty, not the preprogrammed tech 1984 world it’s becoming. Seems like the only mental or visual entertainment is of the censored propaganda we are being fed by the all seeing, all hearing, all thinking tech god-screen pacifiers everyone seems tied to like an umbilical chord.
Introduction: I write this as an educator and researcher who has spent years observing how large systems fracture human bonds while presenting themselves as benevolent guardians. When those systems fail—when they harm rather than heal—the damage is not merely statistical. It is personal, intimate, and enduring. Lives are lost, families are shattered, and grief is often driven underground by silence, ridicule, or fear. What follows is an educational presentation rooted in a simple but profound idea: that ordinary people, acting locally and peacefully, can create meaning, solidarity, and resistance through ritual. This essay proposes a recurring, silent act of remembrance for those believed to have died as a result of the mRNA injections, with good reason and explores why such a ritual matters—not only for mourning, but for community formation, moral clarity, and future resilience.
Yup. You're right. The biggest cause, imo, is the "smartphone." People's brains have been reformatted into rigid material, electronic wave patterns which evince as uninspired doggery. I've noticed a decided growing absence of genuine creativity within society over 60 years.
A huge percentage of the population is taking anti-depressants and that is also a cause of what you are seeing. Deep conversation with others is rare.
Chemical zombies...
When I was car shopping in 2018, it seemed that 90% of vehicles were either black, white, silver or grey. I bought a blue car. I can look out into the parking lot of my apartment and it is the same thing.
I see pics of beautiful homes where everything is sterile white or chrome or black outside and inside. How drab. None of this modern crap compares to the warmth and charm of wood...even fake wood or wood-like vinyl.
I don't think it is because of covid necessarily, just a dumbing down of our environments over the last 30 years or so. It is the creep of socialism where everything is bleak, depressing and abysmal. Kind of like a cinder block motel room.
The personality changes from the jab are stunning. I've observed it directly in people.
They are transferring to BORG.
Thanks for your post !!! 👍👍👍 🌹🌹🌹
Some other Substacker called the deterioration of everything the "enshittification" of the human condition including his own metabolism, soul and mind ...
Fortunately, only Western societies will succumb to it !!!
I read your book 'Awaken to your Power". The subject is interesting and prompted my recall of past incidents in my life that seem congruent with the theme of non-material 'spiritual connection'. I do not understand much at all about this, do not know how much of it is true, but it is interesting.
Reading and thinking a little about it reminded me of an insight shared by a man years ago. The experience of happiness, maybe even of pleasure, would not be possible except for the fact of limited time in one's life. If life span were eternal, then any "happy experience" would be unimportant, meaningless actually, because the experience could be re-attained any time. So any particular such experience would be so unremarkable as to nearly escape awareness, like drawing in breath and exhaling. In a limited life span, a happy experience is such because of the realization that I experienced this joyous event before it is too late. It is the limits of life that motivate, emotionally color, and inspire action, creativity and inventiveness.
The banality of the present day autos is of course by design as they have no intention of letting us drive in the near future and so they want to kill the old car culture that saw it's heyday in the 50s to early 70s . In my opinion along with the music was the greatest contribution to pleasure this country has ever experienced. A short lived burst of creativity never to be seen or heard again. Kill the arts , block the sun , and just be happy ordering everything on line cause it's easy
Everyone used to tinker....
The inner is reflecting the outer. Mass programming is working, creating the soulless gray world that is envisioned by soulless entities. Not complying with the limited, selection of things, ideas, or attitudes will become a harbor of sanity. Life is color, form, variety, surprise, novelty, not the preprogrammed tech 1984 world it’s becoming. Seems like the only mental or visual entertainment is of the censored propaganda we are being fed by the all seeing, all hearing, all thinking tech god-screen pacifiers everyone seems tied to like an umbilical chord.
Come together or be destroyed.
Introduction: I write this as an educator and researcher who has spent years observing how large systems fracture human bonds while presenting themselves as benevolent guardians. When those systems fail—when they harm rather than heal—the damage is not merely statistical. It is personal, intimate, and enduring. Lives are lost, families are shattered, and grief is often driven underground by silence, ridicule, or fear. What follows is an educational presentation rooted in a simple but profound idea: that ordinary people, acting locally and peacefully, can create meaning, solidarity, and resistance through ritual. This essay proposes a recurring, silent act of remembrance for those believed to have died as a result of the mRNA injections, with good reason and explores why such a ritual matters—not only for mourning, but for community formation, moral clarity, and future resilience.
https://open.substack.com/pub/soberchristiangentlemanpodcast/p/essay-finding-each-other-in-the-darkness
Yup. You're right. The biggest cause, imo, is the "smartphone." People's brains have been reformatted into rigid material, electronic wave patterns which evince as uninspired doggery. I've noticed a decided growing absence of genuine creativity within society over 60 years.