The OVERWHELM of Modern Society

We're managing the overwhelm of society today on the podcast and Is anybody out there willing to refute the sort of overwhelming nature of what it is to be in modern society? I wrote today for the Light Keepers blog over at redbeaconmedia.com a very simple short and to-the-point article. Well, maybe not necessarily short to some. And it was titled, The Infrastructure of Sin. The infrastructure of sin is a mind-boggling concept. And it's the reality in which you live. Whether you believe it or not. Whether you want to realize it or not. Whether you do anything to thwart it or not. Right? Now we may go into that, we may not. If you want to read the article, go to redbeaconmedia.com and become a lightkeeper. This is just scratching the surface of what you're going to get over at redbeaconmedia.com when you sign up for a one-time payment to become a Lightkeeper. This is not a membership on purpose, okay? And that's all I want to say about that. I have one story in particular that is the hook. It's designed to sort of showcase the fact that on any given day you can be hit with something like Russia threatened strikes on UK military targets. And it doesn't take a genius to understand the implications therein, right? It doesn't take a brainiac to go, well, I think that could be bad. I think that could have downstream effects. I think that it could have first, second, and third order of effects that we don't want to deal with. Russia's threatened UK military sites. And, you know, this is based on the UK basically giving... the ability with their storm shadow missiles to hit targets deep within Russia. Right? Now, the things that come out of Russia, you know, you always have to see the source. You always have to know where they're coming from, right? Russia's done as much... They've done as much of what they said they will do as they have not done what they said they will do, right? So they... said there was a red line in the sand that, you know, has been crossed many, many times. They have said they're going to do things that they hadn't done in the past. But they also, you know, for two winters running, they have hit the Ukrainian power grids. And they've just hit Kursk. And it's out of commission. You know, this is going to be a nightmare, like a real nightmare situation for the Ukrainians this winter. I'm sorry, not Kursk. What is the Ukrainian power plant that just got hit today? It's a big one. It's one of the biggest ones. I bet I could just look up Ukrainian war and we'll see. Technical talks on Russia's war soon. Putin moves to escalate Ukraine war. Tell talks stall. Russia's running out of cash. CIA chief told FSB to make peace with Kiev. That was a weird story, huh? That's another one. Another thing that bleeds into the overwhelm of the day, right, is there's an American plane flying, American military plane flying over Moscow, right? That's a big deal, man. But again, these are these breathtaking things that, like, oh my God, you're kidding me, right? You're absolutely kidding me. That here we are on a Thursday or whatever it was, Was it Wednesday, something along that line? And all of a sudden, boom, right? I don't know. I can't find it. I'm not going to waste the show. Time and effort, sort of. Playing seek and find over. But suffice it to say, you know, they've made winter hell on the Ukrainians. They said they were, and they did. You know what I mean? If you want to pay attention, like, this is what you want to pay attention to, okay? Okay. You want to see what the UK's posture is on something like this. Do they start repositioning air defense assets? Are they changing readiness signals and levels around these key military facilities, both in the region and at home? What's the messaging to UK-based preppers? I'm sorry, not UK-based preppers. They're already kind of doing it. But what's the message to people in the UK who, you know, quite frankly, should you guys be preparing for bombardment from one of the world's largest militaries? I mean, we made this mistake. Not we, but the UK made this mistake in World War II. This was a clear mistake that they made. They said, no, no, Hitler will never touch us. And we know how that went, right? We'll fight them in the streets. We'll fight them in the subways and the whole amazing speech by Churchill. But not before, you know, the island was bombarded. So keep an eye out on, you know, what UK does. Because I think what the UK does will tell us a lot about what's going on in the long term. Or what's really going on behind the scenes with this. But this is worldly news that leads to that sort of, you know, that sort of, unbelievable situation we all find ourselves in where we're heavy breathing over things day in and day out that have almost no could potentially have you know an effect on us but rarely do I'd say keep an eye on American assets if things are to get really hot and heavy between the UK really between Russia and any NATO partner in general I think you'll see a rapid exfiltration out of Iran You're going to see like, okay, priorities have changed in a very big way. I would hope, anyway. That would be my hope. This whole lace, what is it? What's the case? Who's the psychotic woman who killed all her kids and somehow we're supposed to give her empathy? This is like peak radical empathetic moment in history. That's really what this is. We have watched nations taken over. We're literally just taken over by radical empathy. Europe has fallen to radical empathy. That's what it's fallen to. The dangers of radical empathetic behavior. The dangers of radical tolerance of any behavior whatsoever. We've seen beautiful cities like San Francisco just completely fall into desolation. Completely. You know what I mean? And this is just what it is, man. And I think sort of there are a number of cases and situations you could call on and say, like, have we reached the peak of suicidal tolerance and suicidal empathy? Maybe what we've been waiting for is not suicidal tolerance and suicidal empathy, but how about homicidal empathy? How about the fact that children can be targeted and murdered. In a homicide. And clearly. We have a nation that is so. Somehow void of. Morality and virtue. That it's just. You know. We need to find. We need to find empathy for the mother. And I think it just. It just speaks to this sort of failure of the radical empathy in the society today. But even bigger than that, for me, and I don't know the lady's name, Lindsay Clancy. Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children and trying to take her own life in 2023, claims to still be suicidal. I don't want to get too ugly on this show. It's an ugly enough time. I think you guys... Kind of get an idea of where I'm at. Mentally with this whole situation. But I can't get over the applauding women. Lined up. To stand with Lindsay. In her time of distress. And fundamentally the reason is because she's a symptom of a much larger thing. And it's the. Well it's the. It's the ball. Molech. Sacrifice of children that. It's part of this cyclical. This is a cumulative sin situation that we find ourselves in, man. This is a cumulative sin sort of a situation. You know what I mean? This is not like, there's nothing unique about where we're at. There's nothing happenstance about it. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, here we are. You read about people feeding their newborns to the fires, sacrificing them to Molech in the Bible. You read about Elijah. You read about These insane things that parents would do in the face of appeasing a God. In order to get the grain to grow and the rain to fall. And you realize that that was their interpretation. That was their need they had to fill. But the cumulative effect of sin drives the human... To drift in the same way. In a cyclical manner. We are living in a time of. Massive child sacrifice. And not just. Not just in the abortion sense. And not just in the sense of. Children. Being killed by their parents. Or you know. Fundamentally killed. And sterilized by their parents. Who want them to be transgender. It's a lack of protection. Which is demanded. by Jesus Christ in the Bible. It's demanded, right? Like, none should do harm to these little ones, right? The protection of children in the modern society is pitiful, and I think it's a sign of the times. And it's also a clear effect of the cumulative sin of our time. We cannot be awash in the things that we're awash in, in the infrastructure of sin, like I mentioned, day in and day out, and pretend like everything's going to be fine. It's just going to be okay. You know what I mean? That there's pornography at every turn, that every other woman you see running down the street has barely a shred of clothing on, that there are whole corporations built around sin, built around greed. Greed built around envy. We have a whole month named after pride. We fight over which races can have pride and which races cannot. Every sin is detailed out. And when humanity finds itself awash in sin like this, it's always the same. We drift into hell. We are corrupted people. By the ruinous powers. Okay. We are corrupted by the demonic. And it takes us. And they're not complicated. Do you understand? Like. Satan and his minions. Are not complicated. They're not complex. You can watch throughout history. As we fall into the same patterns. That we are in right now. In child sacrifice. And the just. Abandonment of the child. As a sacred thing. Right. Right. It just happens. It just becomes a thing. It's the way that you would wind up tossing a baby in the air and catching him on the bayonet of a rifle in a concentration camp. It's cyclical, man. You know what I mean? It comes and it goes. If man is left to his own sinful devices long enough, particularly in groups, then this is where we wind up, right? Baal demanded grain and prosperity. And what are we? We're profit and loss and GDP. You know what I mean? I mean, you look at the school shootings. Any reasonable society would have armed guards as you have anywhere else where people are important. You would have armed guards in front of schools all over the place. Here in Richmond, Virginia, we have schools that are literally closed today. The Barack Obama Elementary School, which, I mean, come on. If you're going to, that story is a punchline in and of itself. But the Barack Obama Elementary School shut down because of rodent infestation and mold. Do you understand? Like, the renaming of a school was the priority. But the upkeep and the quality of learning and those kinds of things, that was like the least of it. Do you know what I mean? And this is the sort of situation we find ourselves in. And if you boil all that down to the lip service of what I hear here all the time, which is, oh, we love the kids, we love the kids, we care about the kids, but not enough to care about the schools and the infrastructure that they go to and, you know, survive in and learn in and thrive in, then we find ourselves in this situation where, like, this is it. Do you know what I mean? This. The parallels are too distinct. Right? It just makes too much sense. Too much sense, rather. And so, of course, all of it is to isolate you and to make you fearful and to make you afraid. But it's all a part and parcel of the overwhelm of our society. Right? You can't fix this system by yourself. But I do think, you know, if we can recognize what we are in, that's a great first step. You know what I mean? We have to first recognize the threat for what it is. You know, it's not that you're a sinful person. It's not that many of us are sinful people. Those things are both true, by the way. What it is is that we have built an infrastructure of sin, PBN family. Right? We have built literally an entire society. It's not like the waste of the product is sin, but the product itself is sin. And listen, you hear me say the S word a lot, right? I'm saying the sin word a lot. It's not that anybody's ever going to be perfect and not sin. But no one repents. Very few pray. Very few ask God for forgiveness, right? And if we have 300 million people at minimum, and the majority of them are awash in this sort of sinful infrastructure, this sinful machinery, right? And no one's asking for forgiveness. And everyone's making this sort of Whirled up in their head. This is just how we do business around here folks. This is how we keep ourselves employed. These are the things we're allowed to say and not say. These are the things that we do and don't do. This is how we stay in business. Through making these decisions. That affect people in this way. Sin, sin, sin, sin, sin. We do not repent. We do not apologize for our actions. Because profits are through the roof. The balance sheet is the God. Is the ball. Is the molek. And we continue on. The funny thing about what I say... A lot of times and a lot of days... Is. You know... I feel like everybody already knows it. You know? And I think that the... The duty of a good talker... If that's what you want to call me. Is to bring about the things that people... know are in their hearts but are maybe either too busy to say out loud too afraid to say out loud or you know just don't even want to deal with the repercussions of saying it out loud and to find someone who is saying it out loud I think there's a lot of value and I know I've found value in other people doing that right it's an interesting thing we find ourselves in here folks so pardon me too much coffee not enough lunch So we know we're sort of beaten about the head and neck with it all. But let's talk for a minute about what we can do about it. What can we do about it? There's a lot we know as resilient people. We know as preppers, we know as homesteaders that there's a lot that we can do to change a lot of things. Before we make any wholesale change, before we have any sort of revolutionary thoughts... take any sort of revolutionary actions. I do think that the base level of preparedness is the starting point. You better be prepared for repercussions. You better be prepared for the state to have a problem with what you're saying and doing. The city to have a problem with what you're saying and doing. You better be prepared for disruptions. I want to tell you about SurvivalScripts.com because they can at least scratch one thing off your list, and that's antibiotics and medications. I had a conversation with Tyler from Survival Scripts on Wednesday, Tuesday, something like that. And, you know, this is a guy who, he gets it. You know, he gets what this is all about. He understands the challenge. He didn't put this business together for people who travel necessarily. He put this business together because he knows for a fact that supply chain disruption is real. He understands that antibiotics are made in China and India. All the way on the other side of the world, by the way. Right? Nations that we could be– I mean especially the way Trump moves. We could be in hot water with tomorrow. I mean this is a guy who's giving Canada the middle finger. Like if you can get pissed off at the Canadians, you're doing something. And if you can get the Canadians pissed off at you– We have to have the peace of mind of preparedness before, I really believe we have to have the peace of mind of preparedness before we can talk about the hard issues, before we can change these things. Because we really are at a crossroads. I mean, if you wanted to run a campaign, if you wanted to run the campaign for America, I really think that you would build it around accountability. I mean, that's where we're at. You know, where we're at now is we've reached a point of corruption and gross negligence on not just on the government level, but also at the ground level. Like everybody, the whole of the nation is really in perfectly in position for an accountability movement. Right. You look at your own health. You look at your own wellness. You look at your own habits. And you know in your heart that there are ways that you could save money, ways that you could live better, ways that you could do better if there was somebody to keep you accountable. Right? Of course we know that governments, that public school systems, that every layer of federal and state government is completely, I mean just completely, without any form of accountability. I mean, I will update you on the situation at Richmond schools. But I don't think anybody's going to be fired. So in other words, we have a shut down school right now, the first week of school. Or whatever, third. No, it's just... What is this? This is the first week of school. It's the first week of school. They just got back to school. We have an elementary school in the city shut down. Just yesterday we find out that two more schools are also filled with mold. And they've got to figure out if they're going to have to shut those schools down or not. Maybe not filled with, that's the wrong word. But they found mold in two other schools. So that... Right off the bat lets you know somebody's slipping on inspection, right? When I ran the warehouse for Feedmore, I inspected it once a week. You know what I mean? Once a week I was in there inspecting it for all that stuff. Pests, mold, everything. Improper storage, food safety concerns, the whole thing. Just me. I just did the walks myself. And the things that I found and the things that I fixed were immeasurable. And they kept us compliant and kept us what we needed to be. We needed to be a pristine facility that handled food effectively and shuttled food in and out into the arms of people who need it most and kept them from getting food that was going to make them sick, right? You know, in the face of the homeschool craze and the school choice craze, I've reached a new point in my life, guys. You know, there was a time when I believed, and I still believe in parallel systems. I still believe in alternative everything. I still believe in the idea that when the rubber meets the road, you need to have an alternative. That's sort of the prepper way, right? You better have alternatives to the alternative. But there's a growing part of me now that I've reached this age and I have children of a certain age where... I think it's time for us to demand things work the way they're supposed to work. I think this is an American moment. I think this is an American movement. We need an American movement of accountability. And we need an American movement of just absolute demands for the amount of taxation. You know, demands. Capital D demands. In other words... How can we be taxed the most in almost every city, probably every major city in the nation is taxed ungodly percentages of money for schools that don't work. In other words, we're taxed like crazy for schools and we send and if we're smart and if we live in a city and we want our kid to have the best experience, we go out of our way to homeschool our kids. We go out of our way to send our kids to a private school. Because we have rested on the idea that the public school system is crap. See, if we really want America to thrive, then we have to go at the throats of the people responsible here and say, listen, you have five years to give me a public school system that works. This is it. This is it. This is our public school system that we fund with our income tax with our our state tax with our property tax with our meals tax with our this tax with our every tax and we have we are so beaten to death as a people all across this country that we go yeah i mean you know i pay out the ass for public school but we know it sucks so we send our kid to private what we homeschool the kids because we know the public school system is broken what Is it just me? Or does that sound like the craziest place to be? The craziest mental place to find yourself? Do you know what I mean? This is what it's akin to in my mind. This is literally what it's akin to in my brain. This is how much sense it doesn't make. It'd be like saying, I married my wife, but she cheats all the time. So what I'm going to do is get a mistress. Huh? You're missing the point. Do you know what I mean? I mean, that's what it sounds like in my head. That's sort of the comparison that comes to mind, right? We've built a school system that is designed to teach our kids. Then we have kids and we say, well, don't send them to the public schools because they're indoctrination camps filled with violence. We'll spend more money and send them to a private school. Or we'll homeschool them. Oh, well, homeschooling is better. And school choice is the way to go. Hey, that's fine. But you got to shut the public school system down. And you have to stop taxing people until they're basically, you know what I mean? Just hollow inside. I don't know. To be honest with you, I don't have any problem with people homeschooling. school choice whatever you want to do with school personally it's your call it's freedom it's america but we need a school system that works and we need to we need to hold people's feet to the fire going forward about a school system that works or else you don't need to tax me for it it's one or the other it can't be both it can't be i'm taxed until i'm blue um And we are all in agreement that it's okay that the schools shut down because they're infested with mold and rodents. I can't live that way. This is not what America is about. You know what I mean? You're entering into a world that you want no part of. So all that to say, get yourself some survival scripts from survivalscripts.com. Let's talk about what we can do to rectify all of this, man, right after this. Hello. Welcome to the podcast. Present your vaccine passport. Enter your social credit score. And be sure you have enough remaining carbon credits to enjoy today's show. Be me and family. Your garden is the resistance. So I don't know that I need to spend 28 minutes telling you that you're freaking out and you need help. But, you know. we're all freaking out it is what it is we're all carrying around some burden or another and uh there are things that work you know what i mean there there are things that work and things that don't and whether you know it or not your body knows it your your hormones know it your organs know it your brain knows it your sleep cycle knows it right if you're if you're beating about the head and neck over the the vicissitudes of life then you have to understand that like fitness, prayer, rest, hobby, digital disconnection, these things help you. Movement doesn't even have to be fitness, basic movement, you know, 20 minutes of daily movement can reset your whole stress cycle, right? Like it doesn't have to be brutal exercise. Movement itself is built into the stress response loop of your body. Do you know what I mean? Like that's what it is. It's like oh my god there's a stress. There's a factor of stress that I have to deal with. I have to recognize it. I recognize it as a threat. And now I have to do something about it. If you continue to sit still. You know sedentary plus high stress. high stress this is the the formula for anxiety you know what i mean it's a compounding effect so you have to understand if you're if you're high stress and you're sedentary no movement no fitness no nothing you're suffering your body is suffering in ways you can't imagine you know and then what that you go to a doctor because you're going to wind up with something chronic and they're going to give you a pill that's going to make even worse in most cases right Or let me say, in many cases. And then the dump truck showed up. What's going on here? Oh, this is a bathroom break, okay. You know, prayer, daily prayer. You know, see, therapy is a thing, but prayer is a better thing. I think prayer is what therapy tries to be. I really do. And the reason that prayer is what therapy tries to be is because you don't need a responding voice. And there are some days you don't need to talk about all the woes of your life. You just don't need it. But in prayer, you can speak truth out loud to God. And I find that the darker my thoughts, the worse my situation or condition that I speak out loud to God, the better I feel after. You know, I really do think that therapy was a thing that was not created to replace prayer, but it just, it struggles to be what prayer can be. Also, prayer is free and can be done daily. It can be done every four hours or whatever you want. You know what I mean? Whenever you need it. I can't tell you the value therein. You know, I've done therapy before. It's just, you know, it is what it is. One of the things that is shit about it, pardon my French, is that you wind up playing a game with the therapist or having an expectation of the therapist to say a thing or do a thing. But then when you're back facing stress on your own, there's no feedback loop. Do you know what I mean? I mean, a lot of people talk to you about sleep. You know, get your sleep, get your eight hours, get your whatever hours of sleep. Sleep has been elusive to me my whole life. I just want you to understand that. It's been elusive my whole life. What I find throughout the day and what I find that really brings me back, whether it's the overwhelm of life or literal exhaustion, is to spend more of your time horizontally. And I mean literally horizontal. I don't mean sit on the couch. Sitting on the couch in that position, it's not the same. It really isn't. There is something about lying down. He lies me down near still waters or in still waters. I don't know the Bible verse by heart, but I mean, there's a reason for that. There's a reason for that line. I don't know what happens. There's probably a study on it. There's probably something on it. I need to do my research, but The very act of lying down is different than the act of sitting. It's different than the act of lounging. It's different than anything else. I can sit down. Because remember, we all sit down already. We sit down too much as is. It's not a position for rest, I don't think. The real position for rest is to be horizontal. Right? And. You lay down and you can turn 15 minutes of laying into real rest. I mean, real beneficial rest. I'm telling you, this is a real thing. I would stress much more about how I rest than how I sleep if I were you. During the day, you can do amazing things. In other words, in your head, you can assume that you're overwhelmed and you're exhausted. This is me. I'm in this position weekly, right? I'm overwhelmed. I'm exhausted, right? There's so many things going on on the work side, the world side, the life side, whatever it is. I'm overwhelmed. I'm exhausted. Maybe I slept well last night or I didn't sleep well. I don't even care about that. But in that moment, in this moment, this is what I know. I could take a break. I can go for a walk, which isn't bad. I mean, a walk is good. It's not going to bring you back, right? I can sit, I can scroll, I can play a video game, I can have a phone call, I can do a writing, you know, write something I really want to write that has no bearing over my money making or Prepper Broadcasting Network or Red Beacon Media or whatever. I can do a bunch of things to sort of decompress in some way. But nothing, nothing gives me power like laying. And when I'm really recovering, like when I was recovering from Prepper Camp, I knew The best thing for me to do is to hydrate and lay on the couch. Just lay on the couch and watch TV. Put a movie on. Force yourself to just stay laying down and sipping for two hours. You know, three out. Whatever it is. Just stay laying and truly resting. And I think as you get older, man, the value in that is even greater. I really do. I really think... To become, you know, a bum is a different thing. But to strategically rest... When you're doing a lot of work. I think it's great for the mind and the body. Because there's a level of refresh that I feel. That I don't feel in any other way. And let me. Maybe if I'm laying horizontally with my wife. If you get what I mean. That's another big refresh. But you know. Not always on the table. Laying down man. I'm serious. You know. Hobby essential. Digital disconnection essential. These things are. you have to find ways to take your mind completely off the X, right? And, and let it, let it be in somewhere else for a while. Um, but even then, a lot of those, a lot of times hobby and things like that, they take, they take a lot out of you too, you know? So it's not that you remove the fatigue, but I think you help with the overwhelm of, of the same thing. You know, the other thing that I notice a lot too is repetition, right? The repetitive nature of, uh, six problems in a day right or four problems in a day i have to do this i'm mad about that i don't like this i don't want to do that i have to do this i don't want to do that i'm mad about this i have to do that i don't want to do this i'm mad right and there are these four core things in your day that are a problem and you know you ping pong off of them it's like a a pinball machine you know what i mean over and over again and i think you just like When I get into a situation like that, I feel like I'm just draining the battery. Like I'm just draining the battery. There's nothing good coming from it. Just draining the battery. PBN Family, I've made it very clear that the whole of the news-consuming audience is. They're living life like a prepper without the preps. They're consuming doomsday prepper news on a day-to-day basis, whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not. And the saddest part about it is the fact that they have no preparations. Like when I would read prepper news day in and day out, I'd at least be making preparations. So I'd deal with the high stress, but there would be high reward. I'd say this is a terrible situation, the dollar's going to collapse, and we're all going to be left to pick up the pieces, but at least we'll eat because I've got food stored. At least we'll be able to buy things with precious metals. At least we'll have weapons to protect ourselves. Imagine having none of that and living in this world that we live in now. And that is the overwhelm. That is the anti-anxiety medications, the antidepressant medications, the lacy medications, the way, I don't know, it's all a part of the infrastructure of sin. The greed of the media has found that one of the best ways to get views is to put terrifying news up. Outrage, wrath, greed times wrath, right? If you like this concept, okay, really this infrastructure of sin concept, and if you like what we do here at PBN, I want you to consider going over to redbeaconmedia.com. And looking at the light keepers quarters. We want to get you prepared. We want to get you physically and spiritually prepared. But we also want you to get back to being human. And seeing all the beauty that is there in. Because there's a lot out there. There's a lot out there that could be shared along with the terrible news. If we had media that really wanted to do something special. But instead they feed us from the... uh the sewer line only and we're left with that but you guys know the way out we are your path back to stability tell a friend tell a neighbor spread the word support the prepper broadcasting network and red beacon media Talk to you soon, folks.