This has been a great series. I so appreciate your efforts to point people to the truth in Christ. May God bless you and help you reach even more people!
A couple of main things stuck out to me a lot in this video: first, the fact that as a byproduct of being demoralized, the person loses the ability to even assess the true nature of the solution being offered, and second, that the stability claimed to be offered in the normalization phase is only the illusion of it because of how hard those implementing it have to sustain it. You can’t have any true stability apart from the truth. The process of demoralization reminds me a lot of a game I used to play as a kid called Kerplunk where you have a bunch of tiny little sticks that are inserted into a tube at a perpendicular angle with marbles on top of them. You take turns pulling the sticks out one at a time, sort of like Jenga, until the marbles finally fall and then you rebuild it again, the similarities being what you said about someone who has been demoralized being on the ice with so little left before they break, and then being subject to whatever new structure is built around them. Last thought: it’s interesting to consider how this forest stage process emerges very naturally and observing how evil functions. I can look at my own history and see where these stages have played out in my family.
Amen. "Active participants." It's astounding to realize that we often are not active participants in our own lives.
This has been a great series. I so appreciate your efforts to point people to the truth in Christ. May God bless you and help you reach even more people!
Always love seeing T. Sowell. Would love seeing a series about his ideas on equity.
A couple of main things stuck out to me a lot in this video: first, the fact that as a byproduct of being demoralized, the person loses the ability to even assess the true nature of the solution being offered, and second, that the stability claimed to be offered in the normalization phase is only the illusion of it because of how hard those implementing it have to sustain it. You can’t have any true stability apart from the truth. The process of demoralization reminds me a lot of a game I used to play as a kid called Kerplunk where you have a bunch of tiny little sticks that are inserted into a tube at a perpendicular angle with marbles on top of them. You take turns pulling the sticks out one at a time, sort of like Jenga, until the marbles finally fall and then you rebuild it again, the similarities being what you said about someone who has been demoralized being on the ice with so little left before they break, and then being subject to whatever new structure is built around them. Last thought: it’s interesting to consider how this forest stage process emerges very naturally and observing how evil functions. I can look at my own history and see where these stages have played out in my family.