At American Thinker, Christian Chensvold brings some clarity to the topsy-turvy world we’re living in ("Weak Men Make Hard TImes"):
There's a popular meme you've
probably seen that was floating around even before the endemic
pandemic. The images vary, but the text delineates four stages
running thusly:
- Hard times make strong men
- Strong men make good times
- Good times make weak men
- Weak men make hard times
This takes us back to step one,
after which the cycle repeats itself.
. . .
Key to understanding this so-called
"doctrine of the yugas" is that in each of the four stages, one group
or form of social organization is the dominant one and the holder of all the
culture's moral legitimacy. Currently, things are so upside-down
that in the view of most of the establishment — government, media, education,
the entertainment industry, and the business world — an illegal alien who
crossed the border this morning, with neither money nor education and thus
entirely dependent upon American largesse, has higher "moral value"
than a legacy American whose family has been living and paying taxes here for
150 years. And suppose this simple citizen of the merchant caste
criticizes his rulers' importation of the fourth caste from others' lands and
demands that they be deported. In that case, he is branded with the
scarlet letter R because — just to chill you to the core and leave no doubt
that you're in a cosmic soap opera — per ancient teachings, caste and race
overlap.
The ancient doctrine of the four
ages is key to understanding where we are now, how we got here, and the correct
course of action. It should be clear that winter has fallen upon us,
that we are no longer the land of the free and home of the brave but are on an
inescapable path to becoming its very opposite. In winter, the trees
are barren, the antithesis of what they were in that verdant
springtime. You cannot plant seeds because the soil won't sustain
them. You can only bunker down, ride it out, and fight off the wolf
at the door. And you can reflect upon what you learned over the
year, where things went wrong, and how to do things differently when spring
finally comes.
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