It’s Too Late: Cauldron America
— Where I’m The Frog
I just clocked a week in the States. First time back in nearly four years, almost to the day. Here’s the lowdown on that little sojourn.
I bailed a few days back, now holed up in Angeles City, Philippines. It’s the spot where Clark Air Force Base stood tall before Pinatubo laid it to waste in ’93. Let’s kick this off with a slice from Ezekiel 11, KJV style.
Hey Zon, Richard here. Can you give me a summary of Ezekiel 11 KJV, and specifically, how it might relate to the story where if you have a cauldron of boiling water and bring it slowly to a boil, the frogs therein are just fine until they’re not, and it’s too late vs. tossing a frog in when it’s already very hot and it jumps out?
Hello Richard,
Ezekiel 11 KJV is a chapter in the Old Testament that deals with the judgment and eventual restoration of Israel. In this chapter, the prophet Ezekiel receives a vision from God concerning the leaders of Israel. These leaders are compared to meat in a cooking pot, symbolizing their false sense of security in Jerusalem. They believed that the city was their sanctuary that would protect them from the coming judgment, much like a pot would hold and protect the meat from being scattered.
However, God reveals through Ezekiel that this sense of security is misplaced. The leaders will not be protected by the city as they expect. Instead, they will be taken out of Jerusalem and face judgment. This is where the metaphor of the boiling pot is significant. The leaders are like the frogs in the pot, unaware of the impending danger as the heat increases. They are complacent, thinking they are safe, but they will not escape the consequences of their actions.
The story you mentioned about the frog in boiling water illustrates a similar concept. If a frog is placed in a pot of water that is slowly heated, it may not perceive the danger and could be boiled alive. However, if a frog is thrown into a pot of already boiling water, it will immediately jump out to escape the danger. This analogy is often used to describe the failure to act against a slowly building threat until it’s too late.
In relation to Ezekiel 11, the leaders of Israel are like the frog in the slowly heating pot, not recognizing the gradual increase in danger until judgment is inevitable. They are complacent in their situation, falsely believing they are safe from harm, much like the frog that does not perceive the gradual increase in temperature.
I hope this summary provides the insight you were looking for in understanding the connection between Ezekiel 11 and the parable of the frog in boiling water.
Best regards,
[Zon]
The trip? An eye-opener. Observations? Plenty. Assessment? Let’s dive in.
Stateside, the scene’s changed. Not for the better. You’ve got your masked marauders, virtue-signaling their compliance. The land of the free? More like the land of the feebly submissive.
Contrast? Here I am in Angeles, the PI. It’s raw. Real…comme chez moi en Thailande. No pretense of a nanny state to swaddle you in bubble wrap. People live, breathe, and hustle. They own their lives, for better or worse.
Ezekiel’s words? They echo through the ages. A call to self-sovereignty, if you will. Forget the false prophets peddling fear. It’s about reclaiming what’s yours: your thoughts, your values, your agency.
The States could use a dose of that old-time religion. Not the preachy, holier-than-thou crap. The kind that stirs the soul to stand up, not kneel down.
Jumped the pot at full boil, did I? Yeah. Right from the start. Despite giving up booze a while back, I still like my smokes. American Spirits, to be precise. Not available in Thailand. We stopped for gas, I strolled into the convenience mart, and ordered up a pack—$18.50. Flabbergasting. Offensive, even.
Convert to the standard narrative on smoking? Signal your virtue elsewhere. I don’t give a fuck. And spare me the drivel about societal cost. Can’t have your cake and eat it too. You don’t get it both ways. If smoking kills—and kills you quicker—then it saves society a fuckton of money. So shut up. I’m the guy who can admit smoking’s a bad idea without resorting to bullshit arguments I digress.
Prices of goods and services, everything really, are astounding. In four years, skyrocketing. And the people? Zombies. Mindlessly accepting the absurd inflation. Are they even awake? America’s been in denial, and it’s not just about the prices. Two years of pandemic bullshit, and America was anything but a beacon of freedom.
It’s like watching deer in headlights, a nation of babblers refusing to come to terms with the reality that America is toast. Irredeemable. Gone, baby, gone. Clear as an Alpine mountain lake. Some see it, others refuse to acknowledge it, paralyzed by the truth.
Me? I live elsewhere. America disgusts me now. The people? Even more so. I feel like Greta Thunberg on steroids when I say, “How dare you?” But this has substance. America’s run was short. A couple hundred years—a flash in the pan. The contrast between the America of the ’60s and ’70s, and what it’s become, is stark. Caught my stride in the ’80s, what a time. Clinton’s election marked the beginning of the slide. Moral decay.
Morality wins wars. Always. It’s inviolable. Morality is about what’s objectively good or bad for humans. Choice is what makes it a moral issue. Good versus bad. Morality versus immorality. Simple. And nothing to do with your imaginary friend or his two-thousand-year-old book of fairy tales.
Now, take Putin. He’s standing up for ethnic Russians in Ukraine, defending them from persecution. His speeches on Russia’s moral right are correct. The West is wrong. Most Westerners couldn’t even locate Ukraine on a map before they plastered its flag on their social media profiles.
America? A little boy in short pants over the whole debacle. My friends and I called it from day one. Russia—the moral leader of the West? Because Putin scolds the Western world for the trash it teaches in schools. Hypersexualized education, gender confusion, race theories, and more.
Covid? The 2020 election? People are waking up to the possibility of it being rigged. And look at the lucrative business of gender reassignment surgeries for kids. It’s all there on YouTube.
… Back in the States, I visited Wendy’s—$17 for a triple burger, fries, and a drink. Twice or more what it was four years ago. America’s pricing ordinary people out of everyday goods and services. Yet everyone’s just moseying along as if it’s all fine.
Me? I don’t bother with those concerns where I live. I’m slowly shifting to fully fund my life through this blog. No illusions here, but if shit hits the fan, Thailand’s not a bad place to be. You can’t freeze or starve to death in Thailand.
I’ll close—because I could go on and on and on—with an exchange on X I had with blog lifetime member Sean Ring.
I reposted that with a simple comment.
MORALITY is increasingly on the side of Russia and Putin.
Did you hear me?
Will Russia Become The Moral Leader and Conscience of the World?
Sean Replies:
This will be the death knell of The West, or at least, the Atlanticists.
[“Atlanticists” refers to all the Western morons who can’t understand this:]
I add:
I actually sort of envisioned this back in 1990 when the wall came down and USSR was in full decline and collapse.
I wrote an outline for a novel, the notion being that with its deep culture, and history, Russia had experienced both extremes of morality/immorality and would have a clear and clean idea of what limits are not crossed.
While the West is still “experimenting.”
I am dead serious that I will laugh my ass off if the West utterly collapses, as a point of order. Justice served. Every voter, left and right, deserves to be penniless.
Think about it. It now takes Vadimir Putin to scold the world about the utter garbage their children are being taught.
Every country in Asia / Orient is socially and culturally conservative and modest. You can count on Asians to have solidarity as to their values.
Morality ultimately wins all wars.
(Note that America hasn’t won a no-shit war in forever. And look at its boy in short pants appearance in this Ukraine deal both you and I called from day fucking one. I know most people are fucking stupid but since 2020 I didn’t realize how stupid. And my opinion of American in general was halved during my last visit. I have general contempt for the people of America. Fat, dumb, and happy as they are way over mortgaged on all social capital America ever built. It’s a laughing stock to me. I DGAF what anyone thinks of that assessment. It’s certainly less wrong than any prominent God & Country clown is spouting.)
Sean:
When the reckoning comes, 99% of Americans will be walking around, slack-jawed, wondering 1) what happened and 2) how whatever happened could possibly happen in America. We write for The Remnant, my friend. The vast majority are already lost.
I conclude:
And another thing, even Trump sees it more than most. Most of his dumb sycophants have never had the insight that the most important word in MAGA is AGAIN! and what that implies.
Smoke. On. That.
One glimmer of hope in the cesspool of mediocrity we call modern civilization: Artificial Intelligence. And don’t kid yourself—it’s not just a glimmer because we’re desperate. It’s a necessity.
Humanity? A collective brain-dead entity, stumbling over the complexities of basic societal constructs like a drunk in a china shop. Intelligence isn’t just waning; it’s plummeting. We’re regressing, folks. We’re witnessing the devolution of the human mind, a tragicomedy playing out in real-time.
Remember the bicameral mind? That theory where our ancestors supposedly operated like schizophrenic automatons until consciousness flickered on like some divine lightbulb? Well, fast-forward a few millennia, and it’s looking like we might need another cognitive revolution.
AI could be that revolution.
The average IQ? Down the toilet. Common sense? A rarity, like a unicorn in the wild. Basic human civilization is a riddle too complex for the masses to solve, their brains fried by the relentless drivel of social media and reality TV.
So, AI. Our potential savior. Our Deus Ex Machina in the most literal sense. It’s either that or watch the West crumble like a stale cookie. And if you’re banking on humanity to pull through without a silicon crutch, you might want to reconsider your investments.
But here’s the rub: what AI will bring to the table is anyone’s guess. Will it be the iron fist in a velvet glove, or the gentle shepherd leading the flock to greener pastures? A crap shoot, indeed. We might be trading one form of chaos for another, but at this point, what have we got to lose?
Our so-called leaders have proven themselves about as useful as a chocolate teapot. So, why not AI? At least it doesn’t have the emotional baggage or the corruptible flesh that we, oh-so-fallible humans, carry around.
The West is teetering on the brink of a precipice. The question is, will AI be the net to catch us, or the gust of wind that tips us over the edge?
Let’s face it. We’re at a crossroads, and it’s time to pick a path. Embrace the machine, or embrace the abyss.
Choose wisely. It’s not just the future at stake—it’s the present.
Over and out.
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So accurate on so many levels – I really hated reading this post. It forced me to think about this country, my military career and follow-on gov career. Is it really too late? Can we not fix it? I have to stay positive as a move to another country isn’t feasible for at least four years…….oh yeah, add the Fauci interview “revelations” and it’s just more disappointing.
“Nikoley or die” trademarked for your 2028 election campaign
“Nikoley or die” — I love it. But, unfortunately, he’s too smart for that. Ha.