Fifth Generation

Life is always been difficult, a struggle. There has always been death, disease, and poverty. There have always been those who seem to unfairly have it all, and those who don’t seem to deserve their trials and tribulations.

It is a mistake, however, for man to try to end all unhappiness and try to bring forth a “millenium” or a “new age” or a “new world order”.  The attempts only cause more chaos and do indeed lead to the end of civilization. Civilization dies only through its suicide.  It is society’s  “intellectual elite” who are responsible for delivering the shot.

The intellectuals noticed that life was difficult. There is poverty, war, and greed. Any Spiritual person from a Jew, to a Christian, to a Buddhist could tell you there is suffering in this life and there will always be. Suffering is part of growing and maturity. For Mormons, suffering is absolutely essential and taking that away from someone is taking away their freedom from happiness as without suffering there is no joy. However, these intellectuals wanted to solve the problem of suffering once and for all. They took away God and attempted to become gods themselves. Again, we have people who have become too great in society trying to build their own Tower of Babel to God.

Nineteenth century intellectuals blamed capitalism for suffering and wanted to take the choice of suffering away from mankind by instituting Socialism. There were many, but Karl Marx stands out as the most famous example. Capitalism just wouldn’t die, and still hasn’t. In fact, it is still giving people choice and opportunity to succeed; socialism takes that choice away. The bourgeoisie continued on as does poverty, illness, racism, and war.

Intellectuals began to believe that mankind naturally was becoming degenerate. Social Darwinism, Anthropolocial Anthropology, and Eugenics were considered real science in its day and popular among politicians as a way to control behavior. The birth control movement, abortion movement, as well as the Holocaust and forced sterilizations under the Nazi regime were the result of this “science”. Many people lost their liberty and their lives.

There were many other such movements like Leninism, Maoism, Feminism, Sexual Revolution, and Gramscism that tried to end suffering and ended up taking away more freedom and bringing more sadness and hatred in the world. I blame these intellectuals for the current Islamic Terrorism. Men strapping bombs on themselves, blowing themselves up and taking innocents with them was used by Russian radicals long before the Palestinians used the tactic against the Israelis.

Over and over these attempts of trying to be God fail. Today the movement is just as anti- Capitalist, racist, and dangerous but now scream under the banner of “GLOBAL WARMING”.  Man is now destroying the Earth and will soon cause the apocalypse.  Of course, in order the save the world and make it more “green friendly” they must take away our freedoms and blame the most horrible enemy - CAPITALISM.

Take out God, then all you have left is historical and cultural pessimism. Man attempts to bring about its own New World Order, or Golden Age only causing more harm and suffering for the rest of us. They will take away suffering by taking away any chance for happiness by taking away our need for work, family, and progress.

It is time for a revolution to spin the other direction.