In CS Lewis's book The Last Battle, there's a very good scene involving the dwarves. Basically, when it's revealed to the dwarves that the Aslan they've been following was really Puzzle the donkey in disguise, they all decide that "the dwarves are for the dwarves" instead of swearing renewed loyalty to their king.
Eventually, when the end of Narnia comes, most of the dwarves end up sitting alone in the illusionary darkness of a barn, which in reality was Aslan's country. They were just too stubborn and skeptical to see anything beyond the barn. In effect, they had created their own personal Hell due to their skepticism.
And the whole reason that they were stuck in this Hell in paradise was because they refused to be tricked again. They would rather imagine living in a smelly barn than believe that there was a Heaven beyond it.
This was probably an allegory for atheists in Lewis's day. But I suppose it could be expanded to a lot of people these days.
We are living in a very cynical age in the United States. And for good reason. Nearly every hallowed hall of power seems to be creeping with evil. From the FBI being largely politicized to the department of transportation wanting everyone to get vaccinated so they can fix the supply chain crisis, nothing that is happening is making much sense.
When you begin to find out that the people in power are really just middle management who are kept in check because their bosses have snuff films where they are the chief stars (in Minecraft, of course), you would think that it all makes sense now.
But now things make even less sense. When large corporations intentionally alienate their own customers, it seems that capitalism has failed that the economic models provided by the Austrian economists are incorrect. We all know that Socialism was a huge failure. And now the free market turned out to not be free.
Yes, I know that capitalists will just say that we are doing capitalism, but isn't that was the Socialists say about their economic policies.
In any case, we are in a serious time full of despair, black-pills, and excessive fapping.
Ironically, most women don't want to have children because they're having too much "fun". So it's not really the end times in that regard.
Anyway, the problem I'm seeing is that there are a lot of dwarves running around shouting that the they won't be fooled again. So many lies have been exposed that instead of celebrating that the truth has been revealed and that we can now fight for what's right, we're seeing a lot of people just fall into deeper levels of despair. It's a Hell of a drug, after all.
God has blessed us in this age of collapse and cynicism with revealing us the ultimate truth of the world. For decades we believed that our world leaders were inherently good people, now we know that they are, at best, misanthropic maniacs or, a worse, Satanic child murderers.
They are, in fact, the Beast out of the Earth. But we should not fear them or their marks, of which there are many with the vaccine being the latest one. Instead, we should know that God will be with us, provided we side with Him.
But if they're the Beast, then the next stage will 1000 years of peace on Earth. So don't despair, don't let the news or social media get you down. There is nothing to fret or fear about.
Do not fear. And fight. Fight against the madness that surrounds you. Fight against the wickedness.
But you have to fight, much like the last king of Narnia. Even though he was losing, he was commended by Aslan in the end for fighting for Him.
Go and do likewise.