LDS Freedom Forum

The people promoting Wokeism, and the like, want to destroy the current basis of society—pretty much as the Maoists did during their Great Cultural Revolution. They want to overturn the trust, traditions, and cultural beliefs that bind society together. Perversely, as they succeed, they’ll say that the US is headed toward anarchy, which, of course, is completely untrue. It’s headed towards chaos.

I think there’s a correspondence with the late COVID hysteria, which tore the fabric of society and polarized people. Before the whole fiasco, including the vaccine, is over, it could turn out to be one of the biggest disasters in modern history.

Here's the full article: https://internationalman.com/articles/d ... titutions/

Since the above article mentions both chaos and anarchy as polar opposites, I figured a short expose on anarchy was in order.

The short version is that anarchy is to be without rulers, while chaos is to be without rules. Here's the long version:

The typical reaction to the term anarchy is to visualize rioting in the streets and mindless destruction. Welcome to the hijack of the English language by globalists and statists. Your violent visualization of anarchy is a prime example of demonizing an otherwise benign term.

The etymology of the word anarchy goes like this: It comes from the Ancient Greek "anarchia" which combines two Greek words--"without" combined with the greek word for "leader" or "ruler". In short, anarchism is not about an anti-rules based order (note: the UN and the globalists often promote the idea of a rules based order, LOL) It's about having no rulers. Phrased another way, anarchy is not the unbridled chaos you were taught to expect. And who taught you? Why, the rulers of course. Or anyone in authority over you.

The term anarchy was adopted and deployed by Pierre Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 treatise "What is Property"? He was considered the original anarchist when it comes to political theory. He used the idea of anarchism to advocate for stateless societies based on voluntary associations. What is "voluntary association of like-minded human beings"? Its what keeps the globalists, statist, government rulers up at night screaming "someone put a stop to this immediately."

In practical terms, where the global population is under the rule of some sort of stat apparatus, anarchy refers to the abolition of government. Now you're beginning to see why it's considered such a dangerous term by globalists and statist and rulers and authoritarians of all stripes--and one to be demonized. Government rulers, business rulers, medical rulers, religious rulers (its a long list) don't want you to NOT FEAR anarchy as anything but chaos and societal collapse.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. Anarchy's biggest problem is branding.

There's another term hijacked by the ruling classes: democracy. Instead of portraying democracy in its worst light, the ruling classes pull a reverse demonization. They and their media lap dogs frequently acclaim democracy as the pinnacle of organized freedom. In practice, democracy is, at best, some form of oppression of the minority in favor of the majority. Or worse, it acts as cover for oligarchy, as a protection of ruling classes to keep the powerful in power, ie: keeping governments of the masses in power to the advantage of the privileged few who work in government.

Given that we are currently ruled by "The Powers That Shouldn't Be:" which are engaged in murder, plunder, and paedophilia, to name but three of the multiple vices on display, what we really have is a kakistocracy---rule by the worst elements of society.

To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied on, directed, law driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, and controlled by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

Reminds me of the cyclical life of institutions described in the Four Turnings cycle theory on society:

The Third Turning is an Unraveling. Old Heroes die, Artists enter elderhood, Prophets enter midlife, Nomads enter young adulthood—and a new generation of child Heroes is born. The mood of this era is in many ways the opposite of a High. Institutions are weak and distrusted, while individualism is strong and flourishing.


I’m not sure if we’re in the third cycle (unraveling) or the fourth cycle (crisis) but it gives me hope we may be drifting towards a the birth of a new cycle placing us in a first turning (a high with strong institutions, strong community, strong collective identity).

Actually, I think we’re entering a fourth turning:
The Fourth Turning is a Crisis. Old Artists die, Prophets enter elderhood, Nomads enter midlife, Heroes enter young adulthood—and a new generation of child Artists is born. This is an era in which America’s institutional life is torn down and rebuilt from the ground up—always in response to a perceived threat to the nation’s very survival. Civic authority revives, cultural expression finds a community purpose, and people begin to locate themselves as members of a larger group. In every instance, Fourth Turnings have eventually become new “founding moments” in America’s history, refreshing and redefining the national identity.

The financial crisis, the insane debt, is going to be the end of the status quo. Too many will be/are unable to retire. Too many living pay check to pay check, too many jobs are bull **** jobs (im not being crude, it’s a term coined for describing jobs that really don’t produce value) a government shackled by unfathomable debt. It’s too much and a rebirth is needed to move on from it. I think we’re at the start of the fourth turning/crisis. IF the suspicion that the unraveling (third turning) began around 2000 (and was signaled by the 2001 9/11 attacks) then we went through an unraveling that took about 20 to 25 years to occur. Assuming the fourth turning takes a comparable amount of time to run it’s course, perhaps we’re through with it and enter a first turning some time around 2038 to 2045

Compare 2023 to 2001. You didn’t have a smart phone. Your teenager didn’t have a cellphone. Alternative media wasn’t a thing, apps like TikTok weren’t shaping culture. Our social schisms (certainly showing signs of eventually becoming bigger deals in the future) were far less brazen.

All this change happened in about 20 years.

If the general idea of societal turnings is more or less accurate (and you might say supported by the documented Book of Mormon pride cycle with seasons of prosperity and righteousness coming and going with seasons of turmoil and wickedness), how much good (or healing) might occur 20 years from now? How much better could things hypothetically look in 2043?

I’m becoming more hopeful for the future though im uncertain of how dark this winter season (the season attributed to the fourth turning) may be. Things may need to get shockingly ugly before they get better.

It’s well documented on the left and the right that there’s a massive population of loner males. I wish more of them could perhaps have healthier perspective and see that winter (if things get really bad we may look back on the near future and call what could be coming “war times”) really may not be the ideal season to form families and begin bringing children into this world. I’m not saying someone is wrong for having a child now, but I am saying there is a real, major social phenomenon of isolated men that are not marrying and are not producing children and under a theory centered on turning cycles, I think this may be wisdom in the Lord. I think we may be headed for something that brings societal healing, a spring season, that gave birth to good, righteous men, and after the battle of the fourth turning is fought, then, in the first turning (a societal high) is the time to bring in a large number of children:

The First Turning is a High. Old Prophets die, Nomads enter elderhood, Heroes enter midlife, Artists enter young adulthood—and a new generation of Prophets is born. This is an era when institutions are strong and individualism is weak. Society is confident about where it wants to go collectively, even if those outside the majoritarian center feel stifled by the conformity. America’s most recent First Turning was the post-World War II American High, beginning in 1946 and ending with the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963, a key lifecycle marker for today’s older Americans. Coming of age during this High was the Artist archetype Silent Generation (born 1925 to 1942). Known for their caution, conformity, and institutional trust, Silent young adults embodied the ethos of the High. Most married early, sought stable corporate jobs, and slipped quietly into America’s gleaming new suburbs..

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