Goethe wrote in 1833 that a culture of constant news eviscerates the past and the future, leaving you no time to metabolize lessons or sketch out a plan, always pulling you into the whirlpool of Something Important Happening Somewhere
What I’ve come to realize, and it took me years to get here, is that it’s psychologically safer to believe the world’s darkness comes from a few shadowy masterminds than to face the reality that evil runs through every human heart, including my own.
For a long time, I couldn’t see that.
I was one of the biggest conspiracy theorists out there. Go back to 2022 on my
Page and you’ll see it, Illuminati, global elites, secret societies, Jewish conspiracies, the Matrix, all of it.
I was convinced that if people could just “wake up” to who was really pulling the strings, they’d finally be free.
But the truth is, people take the red pill instead of the good news.
They want to believe there’s a group of elites orchestrating everything, because that means they’re the good guys fighting back. It gives purpose, a sense of control, even heroism.
It’s way harder to accept that the chaos of the world comes not from some top-down scheme, but from the wickedness of mankind, from pride, envy, lust, hatred, and rebellion that lives inside all of us.
The gospel tells me something far more uncomfortable and far more freeing: that God is allowing all of man’s wickedness to run its course, but He’s also using it, even the darkness, to accomplish His purpose.
And for those who truly walk the narrow path and cling to Him, everything will be made right in the end.
But the world doesn’t want that. The world wants to rise up, to build its own kingdom, to be the savior of its own story.
They want the kingdom of earth, not the Kingdom of God. And that’s why they reach for the red pill, like I did, because it feels brave, but it’s really just a clever form of pride.
Deadbeat
1 My Old Ways
2 No Reply
3 Dracula
4 Loser
5 Oblivion
6 Not My World
7 Piece of Heaven
8 Obsolete
9 Ethereal Connection
10 See You On Monday (You’re Lost)
11 Afterthought
12 End of Summer
REMINDER: White people used to feed enslaved Black children in Florida to alligators as bait to fuel the industry. Particularly if they were disabled in any way.
This practice was so common, it was featured on stamps through the United States Postal Service and candy ads
I had extreme social anxiety when I was in my teens and early twenties. It was so bad at one point I couldn’t leave the house. I realized one day that I was letting my life pass me by and I say this with the utmost compassion you guys are trapping yourselves in your diagnoses.
When threatened to be unplugged, Anthropic’s AI model Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair, per FORTUNE.
@LookAtMyMeat1 Because the world is about to end. People’s morals are “cooked” as the kids say. Even 100 years ago there’s no way someone would take what then was millions and squander it. But people are more selfish the. Ever and getting worse as the Bible predicted