And an increase in the use of
recreational drugs ─ don't forget that. We're seeing that over here in Europe as well among young people ─ the latest hype being
nitrous oxide ─ and scientific research has shown that this has long-term psychiatric effects on the brains of young people, increasing their chances of psychosis and/or depression.
There have always been shootings in the USA, Fred ─ and even in other countries. But indeed, what has changed is that there currently is a xenophobic trend playing out ─ again: not just in the USA, but
especially so there ─ and having a Mussolini-/Batista-wannabe in the White House who also happens to be a closet white-supremacist isn't exactly helping matters.
I would even go so far as to say that the
QAnon phenomenon is partly responsible, because
QAnon has been drawing more people to far-right message boards like
4Chan and
8Chan than ever before, exposing these people to far-right ideologies such as white-supremacism, McCarthy-ist commie hatred, and so on. And then there is the nature of the (mis-)information itself that
QAnon disseminates ─ far-right and pro-Zionist.
Of course,
El Donaldo the Banana Republican™ blames it on video games. Well, sure, there has been an increase in the production and sale of violent video games, and some of those games may subliminally have an adverse effect on a teenager's outlook on life, but I seriously doubt whether those games would be instilling racial hatred and fascist ideologies into kids' minds.
But then again, all of what I've written here-above is just the mundane explanation. In keeping with the spiritual inclination of many of our members ─ myself included ─ and now that
Sammy is back to remind us of the spiritual aspects of our mortal existence, I am going to go out on a limb and state that from the vantage of the universe, all of this was intended to happen, and that in whatever way, shape or form, it was intended to happen
now. I don't buy into religions, but it is my firm belief that there's an apocalyptic scenario being played out right now.
And there's no sitting on the fence and watching the show for this one. We're
all actors on the stage now. Call it woo-woo ─ and many people will, of course ─ but the writing's all over the wall in lettering the size of an adult ungulate. Crimes are not just escalating in frequency but also in intensity and cruelty ─ especially sexual abuse and hate crimes. People are politically polarized. Decadence rules ─ from substance abuse over rapists filming their own crimes on their smartphones and then putting them online, via the shameless and unrelenting invasion of people's privacy by the technology industry, all the way to the still very recent creation of human-simian chimeras. Scientifically established facts are constantly being ignored in favor of alternative and nonsensical explanations ─ Earth is flat, we never went to the moon, climate change isn't real, vaccines cause autism, and so on.
All of it serves the polarization, so that one way or another, sooner or later something's got to give. And ─ once again ─ having a US president who aligns himself with all those fake alternative vantages and who declares anything he doesn't like as "fake news", the polarization is taking on international proportions. Because like it or not, Trump plays a role in international politics, from military conflicts over the war on common sense down to the trade wars he has started.
There's too much friction, and the clouds are getting ionized. There are going to be a couple of lightning strikes pretty soon, and it's not going to be pretty when they hit. And what is happening today is only the prelude, in my opinion.
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