It appears to me that the world is becoming more dysfunctional every day. I don’t think that this should be surprising considering that the Bible talks about the deterioration of society in the last days and it talks about an increase in depravity and a rebellion against all that is Godly. It does not surprise me that this is happening as much as the way that it is happening. The millennial generation is known for being entitled and, in my opinion, also known for playing the victim. Combine that with the depravity and there is this unique dynamic that is occurring that I like to call feeding the beast. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy of neediness and for lack of a better term illness.

I grew up being told that you worked hard, that you kept your mouth shut and that you showed respect especially to those that are in authority. Today, every one of those virtues are not the norm in our society. The Bible speaks of how that up will be down and good will be evil in the last days. Basically, that norms will be reversed or eliminated and I see it happening right before my eyes. For instance, I know that there are some issues with racism and it has always existed and unfortunately it always will until Jesus comes back, but suddenly it has become good to kill police because there has been some abuse of power on the part of some bad apples and that any incident of someone being killed by police is a racial injustice. I am not saying that there is not injustice, but I believe that liberty is being taken for the sole purpose of feeding the beast.

I think that Dr. King, a great, Godly man in my opinion, is rolling over in his grave at the thought of how race relations have deteriorated since his death and how the gulf of unity has become wider. It is not just race relations, it’s in the area of mental illness, it;s in the area of poverty, it;s in the area of family structure. There is this pervasive attitude that what is the easiest thing to do that is going to make me feel the best and requires me to do the least is the preferred path of action for behavior. The most disturbing part of this attitude is that even when known negative consequences are evident and even experienced it does not dissuade the actions at all. In all situations the primary objective is personal comfort.

Despite how disturbing I find the attitude described, this is still not the feeding the beast that I am thinking about. It goes even deeper than that. Feeding the beast is a self perpetuating reliance on negative behavior that leads to a normalcy. Not only normalcy, but an establishment of a new standard. It’s not an issue to be mentally ill any more. Getting better is not a thought process. What is a thought process is how to get someone else to take care of my issues. Poverty is not an issue anymore. The thought process is that someone is going to have to take care of me. Divorce and the deterioration of the nuclear family is not a problem because somebody will have to pick up the pieces other than the truly responsible parties.

I am not a heartless person who is suggesting that a helping attitude is a bad one because I have been involved in many different ministries over the years and I have helped people. But, I have always had a philosophy when I helped people and that philosophy is that I will identify the need and I will help in any way that I can until it is demanded of me and then I stop. Help is coming along side someone and assisting them. I realize that some are not able to give much, but we should give what we can. What is happening now is this attitude that someone else will do for me what I should be doing for myself and there are others that not only allow this to occur but support the position. This is feeding the beast and the beast is insatiable. What we have going on is an increasing movement towards a self implosion of the system because it is unsustainable.