Sunday, 7 December 2025

"The future belongs to those who show-up" is both pragmatically futile, and spiritually counter-productive

It was in 2007 that I began to take an academic interest in the gross and worsening sub-fertility of native people in the entire developed world, and I did some research into what seemed like a possible exception (Mormons) from 2009. I have also written about the genetically catastrophic problem of human reproduction over the past several generations. 

So it would be fair to say I am aware of the problem*. 


But being aware of this biological problem, and doing something significant to reverse it; are very different things. I used to believe that certain kinds of religion pointed the way forward; but this has been hope has been dashed by the events of the past fifteen years. 

For instance, my positive example of US Mormons have now slid into substantial sub-fertility; and the events of 2020 demonstrate (as a strong generalization) that all religions across the world are now subordinate to the destruction-motivated global totalitarian strategy. 

My conclusion is that this matter of biological degradation and extinction, with the inevitability of civilizational collapse - while real - is insoluble; mainly because nobody At All is serious about even trying to solve it at the requisite large scale, plus that there are no known effective answers.  

Any plan to "save our civilization" is therefore futile - either ignorant, deluded or deceptive**


This has the effect of dissociating spiritual and Christian concerns. When the large-scale future is not going to be saved by our spiritual imperatives; this means that we are free to focus upon our personal situation - which is probably something that we ought to be doing anyway.  something that  

We need not, we should not, continually be trying to extrapolate from what we ought spiritually to be doing in the here-and-now; according to our deepest analysis and convictions. 

We need not, we should not, be trying to link our personal spiritual quest into some practical/ material/ "real world" supposedly-groupish benefit... 


As when people talk about some kind of imagined Christianity as the basis for some kind of future and viable Western civilization. 

That's all nonsense; because it is way too late for such palliations. 

Because things are much worse than such people believe.   

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* Indeed, the problem is that a few people are very-belatedly waking up to a situation that has been a solidly-established and relentless trend since the 1990s, and roots that go back considerably before that. These people have only recently noticed the top-down and multi-pronged and purposive quality of globalist strategies against Western nations. Consequently, they grossly underestimate 1. the profound and extensive damage already done; and 2. the extent to which the whole process has been driven by cowardice, self-loathing, and suicidal motivations among the hedonistic-godless-nihilistic Western masses. Such a situation does not respond to common sense suggestions, angry exhortations, or desperate pep talks.   

** One kind of deception comes from people whose real and mastering concern is to have a safe, comfortable, convenient, pleasurable, prosperous, or high-status life for themselves - but who want to dress-up such (understandable, but blatantly self-centred) motivations in some pseudo-tribal concern of a civilizational kind. 

2 comments:

Latigo3 said...

Bruce,
This reminds me of something I told a friend of mine a few weeks ago, "We are all products of our time". I based this on my study of scripture, understanding the context of the text is important. At first glance, your post seemed hopeless, yet when I thought about it, it led me back to what I told my friend.
To further expound, if we as believers are to "walk by faith" as the scripture says, then we ought to walk that walk in a way that always pleases Jesus, whatever the time, place, or situation.
I am reminded of the story found in Exodus at the birth of Moses. The situation had become dire for the children of Israel in Egypt. Yet, it appears that God allowed Goshen (Egypt), initially a place of salvation and flourishing, to become a place of death and enslavement. All of this was part of God's plan. God did not forget his people.
God has not forgotten us, yet the cycle of Exile to Exodus is always part of God's plan for his people, in the corporate and individual sense. Whether we are walking with God into Goshen to be saved by our brother Joseph ( a messiah type figure), calling on God in the midst of our affliction (exile), or walking out of Goshen with Moses after being enslaved, we are always called to walk by faith.
As usual, thank you for your thoughtful writing.

Bruce Charlton said...

@L - Thanks.

"At first glance, your post seemed hopeless" - I know it will strike some people that way, because their hope depends upon a false optimism.

And false optimism is harmful - both pragmatically, in terms of encouraging bad decisions; and because lies are the enemy's tool by which we are led towards damnation.

Our task is to be realistic, which here and now means pessimistic; but always hopeful - because of the promises of Jesus, and the assurance of the guidance and comfort of the Holy Ghost.

Hopeful also because we do not know the whole story:

https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2021/01/on-limitations-of-palantir-tolkien-on.html