It’s been mused about before, the fact that social conservatives were right about the slippery slope. While not the only thing they were right about, many laughed at them for predicting the normalization of pedophilia eventually resulting from lifting the gay marriage ban. Yet, even though correct, most of society still balks when this is pointed out. While there might be a slight difference between the person who responds, “That’s ridiculous,” and the one who says, “That’s a bit of a stretch,” both of these types suffer from the same affliction: they’re blind to the fall.
The two responses above do not include those who embrace the fall. This is because the blindness no longer holds them in the same way as the “rational thinkers” above. In fact, the blindness has consumed, then has spit them out into an entirely different world than our own, one in which not only is pedophilia to be embraced but so too is total child sacrifice, the next step when preying upon children, because the thirst for depravity has reached a desire for the constant flow of blood. These people are gone, perhaps for good.
But what of the people who are simply skeptical of your “conspiratorial mind”? The ones who think you’ve made good points and connections in the past, but think you have a tendency to sometimes go too far and that this is one of those times. They’re “not okay” with certain aspects of societal decay but don’t believe in the slippery slope; again, they don’t believe in it because they cannot see it.
We must make them see it then! Right?!…right? While this seems to be the natural conclusion, the way to cure the blindness, preventing it from reaching all-out consumption, I’m not so sure that it is the answer. Actually, I’m positive that it is not. How can we get someone to see something they’re incapable of seeing? We cannot simply show them the same picture over and over again, expecting them to finally see the darkness.
…the darkness. We know what its opposite is, the contrast between light and dark. We know what constant focus on darkness does to us. It depresses us, devastates us, causes long bouts of hopelessness and defeat. And we know what it does to us when we try and try to point it out to others and fail and fail: an escalation of the depression, the devastation, the hopelessness and defeat. But what of the light? What is it and where can it be found?
Look up, look up! Upward is where the light can be found, and not first from the sun but initially and ultimately from God. Then pray for eyes to see the still existing light in the world and that you may also know how to create light within your circle, your world. And that this light, in a world full of ugly, might present itself as beauty to behold, for you and for those around you. For darkness and ugliness can only be expunged once light and beauty have been revealed.
This is really good