Hope and Hopelessness in the Revival Generation: Part III

The next, Big Lie:

This moment, this generation, is unique in history. In the past, it took most people a lifetime to realize that they were being lied to. They were trying to survive at subsistence nutrition, subsistence education and little free time to contemplate the nature of all flesh. This generation is born overfed, overinformationed (i refuse to call it education) and with much too much free time to be used by someone without direction or guidance. In a word,

Decadent. There have been other cultures that have had the decadent rich.

We as the Western world, are the decadent rich. We have access to an incredible amount of information through the internet, literally at our fingertips, which gives us a unique sense of history. Our youth have an incredible amount of latent time.

A generation was born, into this unique position. A generation was born that almost instantaneously had a deep, almost intrinsic knowledge that everyone was being lied to. (out which has come a subculture whose key work so far has been “The Matrix”)
A generation was born that has had to fully medicate itself to cope with the incredible weight of the Despair that is undeniable to someone trapped within it. Some of that generation has wandered, like confused cattle into some of the lies, to cope with the truth of despair. Some of that generation have wandered into lucrative jobs, even though they know that it is a lie. They cope with shame on top of their despair. Some have given themselves fully into drug use, or promiscuity, or.... and added shame to their despair, which only requires more lies, and more medication. This has led to a

Culture of Despair

The thing with a Culture of Despair is that it must eventually self-destruct. It is made up of many tiny individuals who are all self self-destructing. It can do nothing else. It must have Hope.

The next Big Lie is as unique as the time. It, ironically, finds Hope in denying the need for hope. Through double think, it convinces a person that they do not need hope and then gives the sense of well-being and optimism that is the emotional outcome of hope.

Every person must somehow resolve the need for hope with the human need to have meaning or being (their existence)

This can only be done by suppressing: Part 1 one, or the other, or both Despair or Existence.

To deny existence is to commit suicide, or convince oneself that Existence (as we know it) can be escaped.

To deny the need for hope is Existentialism, the next Big Lie.