Contemporary Problems (Revision 9)

See my life manual for more context or see the contemporary problems mindmap where I derive this list. For solutions see Time, Treasure, and Talent, or see the ultimate solution directly.

• Spiritual Challenges:
  • Dehumanization
  • The Century of Self — a major psychology of society, narcissism
  • Degradation of values
• Intellectual Challenges:
  • Information overload – Too much noise and distraction in the world to be aware enough ask the deeper questions of life
  • Education failure – Knowledge vs Wisdom
    • Basic logic and reasoning skills [e.g. fallacies, socratic method] not taught
    • Devaluation of the college degree
  • Relativism
  • Hypocrisy
• Physical Challenges:
  • Too much dependency instead of self-sufficiency – a form of control
  • Energy and resource problems:
    • Water shortages
    • Oil shortages and war
    • Nuclear
  • Ongoing war
  • Naive attitude toward potential natural disasters e.g. solar flare emp
• Social Challenges:
  • Loss of Christian Identity in Europe and the West
    • Vacuum filled by muslims, some who are islamic terrorists
  • Communism/Socialism
    • The 4 goals of Marxism:
      • Destroy the family:
        • lie about the inherent “in-equalities” of men and women
        • make the government the “daddy”
      • Destroy private property:
        • Impose regulation
        • Control the food supply e.g. Monsanto
      • Destroy religion:
        • God is a challenge to their fabricated reality and thirst for power
        • Humans have rights
      • Destroy the nation:
        • Destroying the American Dream
  • Replacing God with government
    • Big money meddling for influence over political structures to exercise control
    • Agenda driven “research”; fake science
    • Eroding liberty
      • Censorship – the war against general purpose computing
      • Eroding privacy
        • The DEA Is Spying on Millions of Cars All Over the U.S.
      • Lack of involvement of citizens in democratic process
  • The Lost Generations who do not know they are lost:
    • Younger people are losing social skills
  • The new crusade: Radical islam vs the West who has lost their identity
• Family Challenges:
  • Degeneration of the Culture
    • The destruction of the Family
      • Abortion/Contraception
        • Abortion Activist: “Yes Babies in the Womb are Human Beings, But So What”
      • Same-sex marriage
      • Divorce
      • Pornography
    • Cross generational disease
      • Lack of parenting
        • War on men and fatherhood
          • Vacuum of virtue-based leadership in society
        • War on women
          • Narcissistic women
        • Distortion of God
      • Co-dependency – mutual use instead of love
      • Misplaced sense of self-worth without knowing understanding the dignity in relation to God
      • Victim mentality
      • Trust issues
      • Authority issues
    • Destruction within the Church
      • Pseudo-Feminism influence on Church
      • How Parishes can stop turning boys into atheists
  • Orphans/Atheism/Relativism/Paganism
    • Lost souls who do not know God as Father
• Challenges in Careers and Jobs:
  • International competition
  • Outsourcing
  • Lack of skilled workers
  • Automation
•  Economics
  • Fiat currency, compound effect of GDP exceeding interest paid on dept, risk of hyperinflation
    • CBO: Deficits To Explode As Obama Leaves Office
  • Economic warfare between countries (US, Israel, Russia, China) and Islamic radicalism
  • Gross lack of distribution between the super rich and the poor, yet the give-me-free-money-I-am-entitied mentality of many of the poor
  • Capitalism almost identical to communism without sense of ethics
    • Business without ethics
  • Declining birth rates and effect on economy e.g. Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy

 

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