Navigating a Dystopian World: Finding Courage Amid Chaos and Deception.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) The Chinese have a saying, “May you live in interesting times.” Well, we’re certainly living in interesting times to say the least. We are living in an Orwellian scenario where the world is upside down, language has been weaponized in an effort to maintain and reinforce the Bizzaro World reality we are living in. For example we are told war is peace, invasion and genocide is defense, oligarchy and plutocracy rule by the rich and powerful is democracy. We are living in a dystopian nightmare.

We find ourselves in the midst of a conundrum, a puzzling situation in which we are being gaslighted, deliberately confused, bamboozled and deceived by the government, the mass media and even the institutions we’ve relied upon in the past for truth and guidance like religion and education. The plutocratic overlords are successfully turning the world upside down. Their agenda of social reengineering and global realignment is moving at an accelerated pace. These misanthropes are not only attempting to reconfigure the global economic and political system, they are aggressively working to alter what it means to be human! The adverse consequences of their arrogance and hubris are being experienced globally.

The healing profession is knowingly making us ill and killing us; it’s called iatrogenic injury. The food industry is not providing nourishing foodstuffs and the government allows them to create, distribute and market harmful products, this is called regulatory capture or institutional corruption. The politics and electoral process is contaminated by lies, deceit and overly influenced by bribery aka campaign contributions, “donations” and gifts. Our organized religions have turned their backs on ethics and morality, they tolerate or are openly engaged in activities which don’t reflect their professed creeds, doctrines and dogma.

This upside down discombobulation is taking a heavy toll on our mental, emotional, psychological as well as physical health and well being. We have allowed self-styled experts, fakers, fraudsters and con artists to sway us and drag us into an abyss of ignorance, benightedness, vulgarity, decadence and debauchery. Their goal in addition to making obscene profits is to reshape our values, worldview and behaviors. We have been lied to incessantly by advertisers, the government and the media in general which has created an alternative reality that far too many of us internalize and accept as our every day norm.

We are addicted to gizmos, gadgets and media that are literally rewiring our brains, making us less competent, less interdependent and divided. The great irony is “Social Media” has been documented as making us less social, it is decreasing our social skills and competencies, making us more isolated, mentally deficient and less astute especially the younger demographics.

Our options are being constricted, the power elites have manipulated us into a position of being so stupid (in a stupor) we think choosing the lesser of two evils is a viable and acceptable choice! Evil is evil no matter what degree or level it presents itself. This is the conundrum we find ourselves in today.

How do we pull ourselves back from the abyss? How do we regain our mental acuity, confidence, decisiveness and self- determination. How do we reverse the slide into insanity, decadence and Zombification? Survival is the first law of nature, but we are being conditioned to suppress our innate desire to live lives of meaning and purpose and acquiesce to this dystopian hellscape? How do we shake off our lethargy, arouse ourselves from our somnambulance, energize and invigorate ourselves and reassert our agency? How do we determine we are not going to go out like this?

First we have to realize and acknowledge the dire state we are in and decide to snap out of it. It takes courage to go against the grain. Maya Angelou said, “The greatest of all the virtues is courage. Because without courage you cannot consistently practice all the other virtues. You cannot be consistently loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate without courage pushing you onward.” To that I add you cannot live with purpose, intention and meaning in a society such as this without courage. We have to have the courage of our convictions. We have to generate the courage to live with intention, live in peace, practice kindness and ethics Have the courage to be all the CREATOR intends for you to be, to be authentic, live in integrity to your purpose and actualize your potential. Courage will dissolve the conundrum and you will see clearly and act in accordance to your values, purpose and intention.

Written by Junious Ricardo Stanton

Official website; http://fromtheramparts.blogspot.com

Irene Ballinger says:

November 24, 2024 at 5:58 am

You, staff writer, have described America’s current disposition to a T. The moral majority has always been morally bankrupt. The incoming proclaimed “dictator on day 1” is abhorrently honest about his further plans of autocratic anarchy. It reminds me of the real Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s visits to Harlem, New York churches in the 1930’s. He took recorded discs of their choral praises back to Germany, sharing them eagerly with his fellow persecuted seminary brothers, declaring, “If these African American believers can praise our Lord like this, after all they have suffered and now endure, then we can too.” Kind of like what Paul said time and again, our death is your life, our bonds are your courage to overcome. And, as we know, they all laid down their lives for resisting the insane reign of Hitler. It is “the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world” “whose everlasting arms are underneath” the cast systems of this world, to catch, and hold those of us who “have already died and our lives are hid with Christ in God.” who will “endure to the end” satan’s onslaught and “fear not those who kill the body and have nothing else they can do.” Dietrich’s letters from German prisons and Martin’s letters from American prisons betray the “loveless christianity” and “cheap grace” required to foment the murderous agendas of their countries. “That great Shepherd of the sheep” is a “man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, as one from whom we hid our faces.” He will stand with such as myself, “the least of these”, our threatened immigrants, our vulnerable, our marginalized, any who the dear leader perceives to be enemies of the state. In the coming confusion and chaos, may we gain clear sight, by living the entire hymn “Be Thou my Vision”.

Pelvo White, Jr. says:

October 22, 2024 at 6:52 am

The dystopia that you speak of is in the minds of our so- called leaders who haven’t the foggiest idea of how to lead the American experiment. Our political, economic, and social systems are not satisfying to a majority of the people due to human greed, and antisocial behaviors.