Several days ago, a friend in another forum circulated a Catholic League article titled "Cultural Corruption Marks Silicon Valley". A better title and angle of exploration might have been, "Arrogance - The Hallmark of Silicon Valley".
Get to the root of it. Cultural corruption, while certainly glaringly present in Silicon Valley, is the effect, not the cause - the expression of a deeper controlling dynamic. It is the manifestation of the underlying, consuming Godless arrogance that rules the roost in Silicon Valley and everywhere else leftist elitism prevails in our society.
Here is the last paragraph from the referenced piece:
"Why is it that everywhere the left-wing elite exist—the university, the foundations, Silicon Valley, the media, the entertainment industry—the last thing they prize is diversity of thought? Are they that insecure of their own convictions that they must trample on freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion? Must be so."
This, I think, is a mischaracterization of the mentality of the referenced left-wing, so-called elites. In my view, again, what drives them is not a sense of insecurity, but pure arrogance:
In their self-styled, transcendent sense of moral superiority, they are not insecure in their views. They are absolutely certain of them - so much so that, ungoverned by any absolute principle of human rights or respect for a free market of ideas, they consider themselves above having to tolerate or allow the inconvenient expression of any inferior, divergent opinion.
As hard as it may be for decent, rational people to grasp, these demons truly believe, as I have written many times in the past, that they are beings of a higher order, morally superior, more compassionate, more enlightened, better and smarter than you and me, smarter than our guarantee of God-given individual human freedoms, the Constitution - - smarter than the rule of law that flows from it - which law they, in the certainty they will never be called to account, flout without giving it a second thought - smarter than all of human history - which history depicts with perfect clarity the horrors wrought upon the world by arrogant, Godless people like them - and, indeed, smarter than the Author of human liberty, God himself, who they do not believe exists and thus never needs to be considered in their tyrannical aspirations and machinations.
Dancing in a frenzy around this great bonfire of their Godless vanities, these fiends truly believe they, by virtue of their far brighter lights, have the moral right to absolute power. In their minds, passé notions of democracy and individual human rights and freedoms pale into insignificance against their sun-like brilliance, their self-styled moral superiority and their grand vision for the world.
Setting aside any traditional standards of morality or rule of law - indeed any restraint whatsoever on their aspirations to and exercise of arbitrary power - they think they have not just the right but, rising up in the great fireball of their unbounded hubris, the glorious duty to crush any obstacle - any idea, opinion, competing theory, philosophy, religious belief, reasoned objection, the voice of the people, any pre-exiting order of society, any person or group of persons - that stands in the way of their achieving their glorious vision for themselves and the world.
In essence, for them, the glorious ends justify the means - any means.
Nothing must be allowed to obstruct them in their glorious, virtue-signaling, self-righteous crusade.
To understand the world, look for repeating patterns. As the French say, "The more it changes, the more it's the same thing." Nothing new under the sun.
These modern-day devils - and devils they are - in their Godless lusts and boundless vanities - "by their fruits ye shall know them" - are the perfect embodiment of that satanic arrogance and lust for power that, as scripture attests, were first manifest in the primordial realm before the world was (and many times in the mortal world since), in the person of the father of lies himself, Lucifer, and in the third of the host of heaven that embraced his ideology:
"And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I WILL REDEEM ALL MANKIND THAT ONE SOUL SHALL NOT BE LOST [impossible without destroying the free agency of man], and SURELY I WILL DO IT; WHEREFORE GIVE ME THINE HONOR.
"But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.
"Wherefore, because that SATAN REBELLED AGAINST ME, and SOUGHT TO DESTROY THE AGENCY OF MAN, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, THAT I SHOULD GIVE UNTO HIM MINE OWN POWER; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down.
"And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, THE FATHER OF ALL LIES, to deceive and to blind men, and TO LEAD THEM CAPTIVE AT HIS WILL, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Moses 4:1-4
"For thou [Satan] hast said in thine heart, I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS; I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH".
Arrogant:
"I will redeem all mankind… surely I will do it"
Lawless:
"Satan rebelled against me [God]"
Liar:
"Satan… the father of all lies"
Power-hungry:
"...that I [God] should give unto him mine own power"
Vainglorious
"...wherefore [God] give me thine honor."
"I will exalt my throne above the stars of God... I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High."
Tyrannical:
"...Satan...sought to destroy the agency of man… to lead them captive at his will…"
Arrogant, lawless, deceitful, lusting for absolute power, vainglorious and tyrannical...
Somebody give me a better, more precise description of today's liberal "elite", whose political home is the Democrat Party - seditious and treasonous demons who are working systematically to destroy our freedoms and our great democratic Republic.
Mad yet? If not, what’s it gunna take?
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, life vs. death, God vs. the Godless...
A time for choosing. You'll choose, like it or not.
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men's souls...
Torquemada