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walk so uh wanted to talk a little bit
about the pride cycle and how I see it
playing out today and we'll get into
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right uh the pride
cycle I uh you know I've talked a lot
about the hegelian dialectic right where
you've got
a uh a kind of process where things
continually
change
and I think that there's something to do
I think there's a a you can lay this
over the pride cycle that we find in the
book of
I've always wondered looking at the
pride cycle it's like wow just a few
years and all of a sudden Everything Has
Changed I I don't know how extreme that
always is I mean the prophets are
writing about the changes in their
culture and the sin and uh maybe it's
not you know a massive change but it's
bad to them I I don't know
regardless uh it happens over a quick
period of time sometimes within a year
sometimes it's you know a few years
and I just started thinking about it and
it's like okay look at look at how fast
things are turning right now in our
culture I mean you go back 15 years back
to 2010 and it is almost a different
environment in terms of uh the major
issues that we talk about and uh some of
the the issues that we're talking about
in the election
even and the things that we have to deal
with in terms of the things that fight
against family and marriage and identity
uh these things have changed very very
quickly Co changed things very
quickly and now there's this kind of
push back this is the second time that
I've seen this since
2019 and there is a push back by rufo
you know Christopher rufo and uh uh guy
uh what's his name Lindsay I can't James
Lindsay uh who I've had on the program
and you know kind of saying like Okay
maybe this is the end of woke maybe it's
going to turn and maybe if Trump is
elected then things will really turn and
it's like things turn
but I I I don't know if these people
haven't been long around for very
long uh but things continue to move down
a certain track
right things continue to move down a
certain track there
are there are there is push back on
these ideas these ideologies there is
push back and it uh uh it it does change
for a little while but look at the 60s
right the 60s turned into the 70s there
was some push back on some of the things
in the 60s a lot of things still held on
in the 70s the 80s a bigger push back
but we adopted these things we held on
to the sex drugs and rock and roll and
it became part of the
culture uh it didn't go away
way and this idea that we can that all
of a sudden woke is done or whatever we
want to call it right Dei is the primary
word that is used now it used to be
critical race Theory it's all the same
thing the same
Guist but it is
uh it is not going away and that's not
the way and the reason you can say that
is because that's not the way that
things work there are patterns and you
look throughout history and you know
very quickly that
uh the these things don't go away and
unless there is a massive change A
disruption of sorts then things don't
change like that that's not how it
works uh usually things are going to
have to devolve completely before there
is a turn unless there's a massive
change in something A disruption a
destruction you usually is what you know
there is you know Rome progresses to a
certain point until it
collapses and that is the standard
process and in fact that's the process
for the
church right going into apostasy over
and over and over
again and uh yeah there are turns back
but then it progresses down to a certain
point again I'm talking about overall
mostly the members of the
church uh
and of course this time around it's
supposed to be different right this time
around it's supposed to hang
on for whatever reason well I guess
because it's the second
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coming I think about that a lot it's
like how does it work differently this
time why does it work differently what
is it that causes the change to hang on
where every other
time the church is Fallen
I I don't have an answer to that maybe
you do this isn't like how do we fix the
fenal
problem
it's it's not a small deal it's not
something that just we get rid of in
addition you have technology and
Technology does not help
things it does in some ways but as far
as this
progressiveness it it it advances it
every time the convenience that
technology gives us the uh
compelling uh content and and you know
is like gaming and quite frankly
pornography these things are not a
benefit to society the internet itself
and and living on social media none of
this benefits
us there are few benefits but overall it
does it does not benefit us and so
technology has made a big difference in
fact in fact if you think about
something like
feminism the feminists would like to say
that the fight right against the
patriarchy from the time of suffrage and
and before and moving forward right
going all the way back into
Marxism and before
it's it's not it's not just the fighting
for this it's not the organizing it's
not the protesting that is the biggest
change the biggest change is
technology you go back and you look at
everything that all the domestic
advances that were made for women in
their domestic duties the washing
machine the
refrigerator all of these things where
there was so much time and so much of a
strong need to make sure that you had
pure food right and it wasn't spoiled
and people weren't going to get sick and
that people had something to eat every
day was was a great demand
and as those
things required less and less effort and
attention and
urgency well then of course there are
other options for women at that point
you can say well that's a great thing
options are a great
thing but then you move on and you get
into as an example the the pill which I
think is the biggest thing of
all and the pill changes everything the
pill completely changes our society I
would suggest that it is along with the
ideas and ideologies of the Frankfurt
School and marusa and and
others I would say above that the pill
is the biggest change in our culture and
in our family life that has ever
happened and may ever
happen it brings on sex drugs and rock
and roll into the 60s right and and so
there's another change for women right
they're
liberated from the consequences of
pregnancy uh abortion obviously is a
part of that as well but it it allows
for promiscuity and if you've seen some
of the polls this year for the first
time women in the US are more
promiscuous than
men so massive change right and so that
helps Advance this dialectic that helps
Advance this I I would suggest the pride
cycle uh I'm not saying birth control is
bad I mean a lot of you people might say
it's bad that's
fine but the technology changes
everything but maybe think about that
right the pride cycle seems like it's
ridiculous at some points it's like how
does it change so fast well maybe what
we're talking about is a back and forth
but that continues to go through a
progressive Bend all the way down to
what eventually ends up as d destruction
and
implosion the other thing I want to talk
about is politics and you know I don't
go into this a whole lot usually but it
is that season
right
uh I have a lot of individuals that I
talk to that I have feedback from smart
people that give different angles on on
politics
and uh you know there are some that will
say that politics has nothing to do with
the church politics should have nothing
to do with the
gospel and others that will say it has
everything to do with it I mean look at
the Book of Mormon it's about I don't
know if you can find a more political
book and that is
the the book for us to study for the
last days and so much of it is
politics uh
why I I have thought about this quite a
bit and and and I've come to a
conclusion
that while we don't want to bring in
Party politics candidate politics into
for example into
church it is impossible to separate
social politics from the
gospel I don't see how you do it
and if you know of a way let me know
because I don't think it's possible I
think that they are one in the the same
in some sense uh I Think Jesus was
extremely political in what he talked
about when he was dealing with a
Pharisees the Sadducees the scribes the
princes and the Samaritans and
everywhere else
right uh you're good and
bad and certainly his followers would
have had a certain sense of politics and
what was going on especially in at least
within Jerusalem where you see a
theocracy
uh with an umbrella from Rome over
that I I think that it is part of it and
I think that we should decide how to
deal with politics based on gospel
principles uh now having said that what
happens is is we get those values that
change right we get values that are part
of conservativism or liberalism
progressivism
libertarianism and we raise those values
that are not necessarily gospel centered
above gospel principles or they raise
lower gospel principles because there
are lower gospel principles above higher
gospel principles and it tweaks
everything for us and that I think is a
problem
so but it seems to
me that
being
active
in uh your
community in
discourse and uh in thought on political
issues to some degree at least not wor
it's consuming you
obviously but I think that that is an
important thing I I think that they are
going to end up being one and the same I
think that as we move toward there
there's not going to be a choice between
anything beyond good and evil it's going
to become so
clear uh for those that are hanging on
to the iron
Rod that you've got to pick one side or
the other you have other examples in
church history such as you know Joseph
Smith
is running for president of the United
States he's putting together the uh
Council of 50 and how to build up
Zion and you know building navo Vu and
he's got a militia
and uh there's a lot that I think we've
kind of moved into a position where it's
like we again kind of like this this
politeness uh idea of holding that value
up so high that that we don't want to
engage in these things we think
it's uh I don't know again I don't think
it should be brought into like a church
environment I don't think it's supposed
to be in class
I don't think it's supposed to be the
pulpit I don't think we should ever do
that I don't think that that's what we
need to be doing
but I do believe that if you're studying
The Book of Mormon it's pretty hard to
get around the fact that it is an
extremely political
book talk to you next time
