{"id":326829,"date":"2022-11-28T07:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=326829"},"modified":"2022-11-27T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T04:20:45","slug":"were-so-far-downstream-from-culture-that-were-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/11\/were-so-far-downstream-from-culture-that-were-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re So Far Downstream from Culture that We’re in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Brian Parsons, American Thinker<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Robert Johnson is often considered the first rock musician and one of the godfathers of the Mississippi Delta blues.\u00a0\u00a0Though his entire recording career spanned a mere seven months between 1936 and 1937, and though he achieved relatively little commercial success in his lifetime, Johnson is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.\u00a0\u00a0Legend has it that this relative unknown met the devil at a crossroads and traded his soul for musical talent.\u00a0\u00a0He sang about it in his 1936 song “Cross Road Blues<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Whether or not Mr. Johnson actually met the devil at a crossroads and traded his soul for fame is debatable.\u00a0\u00a0More recent interviews with musicians, like the 2009\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0interview with\u00a0Bob Dylan<\/a>, fuel the fire on discussions of whether or not men can trade their literal souls for earthly fame.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whether merely a metaphor for trading all of one’s self for stardom or a literal Faustian bargain, few would debate that there is a soul-sucking element to fame that robs the famous of their humanity.<\/p>\n

A troubling aspect of our national culture is an ever-creeping slide into debasement.\u00a0\u00a0In this slide, we traded a cultural soul in pursuit of wholesomeness for a much darker version.\u00a0\u00a0There was a time when Elvis gyrating on television was on par with the red light districts of Amsterdam.\u00a0\u00a0Today, artists performing ritualistic, occult ceremonies is chalked up to marketing.<\/p>\n

Last year, rapper Lil Nas X of “Old Town Road” fame performed his song “MONTERO<\/a>” while giving a homo-erotic lap dance to Satan.\u00a0\u00a0To promote his video, he sold\u00a0customized Nike sneakers<\/a>\u00a0with literal human blood in the soles.\u00a0\u00a0What once was chalked up to shock value has become celebrated.\u00a0\u00a0What once was limited to music genres like death metal found a home in\u00a0bubblegum pop<\/a>\u00a0and rap.<\/p>\n

One can find similar dark and occult symbolism throughout popular culture.\u00a0\u00a0From celebrity Celine Dion’s children’s clothing line\u00a0Celinununu<\/a>\u00a0to Disney’s FX cartoon program\u00a0Little Demon<\/a><\/em>, about the rise of the Antichrist, celebrating the occult has become standard fare.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps this is all a marketing ploy to draw attention to one’s products, or perhaps there is something more there?<\/p>\n

They say politics is downstream from culture, and our politics has born that out.\u00a0\u00a0Our leftward American creep reflects a society in pursuit of and driven by the culture.\u00a0\u00a0From the celebrity cult-like following of the Obamas to electing a literal celebrity in Donald Trump, the line between culture and politics has largely disappeared.\u00a0\u00a0This is also reflected in the overlapping social circles of celebrities and politicians.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this mingling between culture and politics and a slide into debasement more evident than in the macabre performance art of Serbian-born artist Marina Abramovic.\u00a0\u00a0Abramovic is most famous for her performance pieces that dabble in occult ceremonies with celebrities like\u00a0Lady Gaga<\/a>\u00a0and political audiences like those of\u00a0John Podesta<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0From her\u00a0Spirit Cooking<\/a>\u00a0pieces, where she summons the spirits of the dead over dinner by painting incantations in human blood and semen on the wall, to guests consuming depictions of the human body lying in pools of blood at celebrity galas, Abramovic takes the macabre to the next level.<\/p>\n

Historically, one might consider this cultural debasement Satanic in nature, and one would be correct.\u00a0\u00a0Where he would be incorrect is in assuming that they necessarily assume worship of some dark and fiery horned figurehead with a bifurcated tongue.\u00a0\u00a0In the Bible<\/a>, Satan was an angel of God and the most beautiful of them all.\u00a0\u00a0He thought of himself as God and was cast down from Heaven.\u00a0\u00a0This is\u00a0the true nature of Satanism<\/a>: a worship of self.\u00a0\u00a0Thus, the ultimate expression of ego is to give away our souls in exchange for personal glory.<\/p>\n

Our society has been referred to as a selfie generation, a picture of our fascination with ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0Facilitated by our screens and devices, we shunned the surrounding world until the world came to surround us, literally and figuratively.\u00a0\u00a0Our politics are just a reflection of that.<\/p>\n

Identify any cause of cultural import on the right, such as opposing abortion or transgenderism.\u00a0\u00a0You’ll find a slew of half-hearted activists in a hurry to virtue-signal their bona fides without intending to become tangibly involved in their local pregnancy or crisis counseling centers.\u00a0\u00a0Our slacktivism is another promotion of self and contradicts\u00a0God’s command<\/a>\u00a0to practice righteousness without an audience.<\/p>\n

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