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| Collectivization Since Satan cannot be everywhere at once, he needs to leverage his influence through hierarchical systems. As a result, we can see in history the inexorable increase of schools, governments, corporations, and even churches into organizational systems mechanical in nature and designed to process people as components. One aspect of this collectivization is to get people more inclined to act and think as they are told. Some see this societal transformation as the advance of communism or socialism. Often Capitalism is seen as the opposite of socialism, however, while an individual can save his money (capital) to start his own business, he is often put out of business by the joint stock corporation (which is an economic collective). Corporations suffer from competition and the tendency to become bureaucracies. As a result, they often cartelize by means of inviting government involvement. This merges the corporate and government collectives. As family businesses are extinguished and employment becomes increasingly available only through government or corporations, those seeking to build a traditional family may find that their options are more limited. It is also useful to understand that the world we live in is in the process of being transformed to produce a population that is compliant and maleable to fit into the global world Satan hopes to control. The reduction of life to the mechanical that collectivism seems to represent can be seen to offer an overly simplistic way of family life. Many parents in the post WWII 1950s anticipated that placing their children in public school and in Sunday School was all that was needed to have them come out at the end of the “assembly line” complete. The sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1960s tended to show that expectation was unrealistic. The mechanical nature of a collective tends to work towards a single objective. Human life consists of a complexity that is not well suited to reduction. This can be seen in human relationships. Using a church as an example, a sermon can be useful, but real growth in faith comes from a relationship such as might be seen with Paul and Timothy. Classroom instruction was not common until 150 years ago. Prior to that most learning was accomplished through apprenticeship type relationships. In a way, collectives and relationships are opposites. Considering that Christianity is supposed to be about relationships (us with God and each other), it would seem that a collective would be the wrong tool to use. Even more so a family would suffer if run as a collective. It is not uncommon today to see the “modern” family consisting of two parents and up to two children each with their own job or school, friends, activities, and interests using their home as a sort of boarding house while they each go their own way. The diminishment of the ties that bind impoverishes them all. Without diversions, distractions, and entertainment, the pain of such a shallow life would be excruciating. |
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