THE 2020s A TIME OF GREAT DELUSIONS AND LUNACY.
BY: Daiman Teer for The Simpleton Star
A thousand years from now, scholars and schoolchildren will sift through the digital ruins of our era and conclude that something catastrophic broke the collective human mind. They won’t file this under quirky footnotes. They will classify it alongside the witch panics, the tulip bubble, and the totalitarian frenzies that once gripped entire populations in shared delusion.
It will be noted that civilization drifted into an era where intellectual rigor was discarded in favor of curated identity, effectively handing the keys to our institutions over to those who lacked the merit to hold them. Academics and administrators prioritized empty credentialism, elevating individuals who checked the right sociopolitical boxes over those who actually possessed competence or wisdom.
This obsession with performance and the validation of imagined categories created a hollowed-out hierarchy where the most mediocre minds were granted the highest status. Because we replaced the pursuit of truth with the enforcement of dogma, we were eventually led by a class of people who were allergic to reality and entirely devoid of true merit, leaving us governed by the very people who were least equipped to understand the foundations of a functioning society.
They will remember this as an age when advanced technology met primitive, unchecked irrationality. We systematically dismantled our own foundations while insisting we had achieved a new enlightenment.
They will remember and teach it as an age when people convinced themselves that biology could be rewritten by mere declaration. Men competed in women’s sports and the culture simply didn’t blink. Children were taught that their natural discomfort meant they belonged to the opposite sex, and medical professionals prescribed life-altering drugs and surgeries to minors as if they were routine treatments.
Entire institutions enforced this fiction under threat of ruin. Future analysts will marvel at how quickly skepticism vanished and how affirmation became mandatory law in practice, if not on paper.
They will remember it as an age when crime and criminals received a bizarre rebranding. Leaders released repeat violent offenders back into communities with minimal consequences. Police budgets shrank while chaos grew. The public watched their neighborhoods decay while hearing officials declare it progress. Criminals gained sympathy as misunderstood victims while law-abiding citizens bore the burden of rising danger without recourse. Future historians, provided they exist, will see this as a deliberate inversion where the protection of the vulnerable gave way to the indulgence of the predatory.
They will remember it as an age when the termination of unborn life achieved a perverse, sacred status. Entertainment elites produced content that glorified the destruction of the unborn and shamed those who dared to oppose it. The casual acceptance of such mass death as a moral good will strike later observers as the starkest symptom of a civilization that had lost its moral compass.
Above all, they will remember it as an age when something fundamental snapped. The rejection of observable reality opened the door to unchecked fantasy. God, or perhaps nature itself, withdrew restraint and let the madness run its course. Societies have fallen into group hallucinations before, but ours uniquely paired total global connectivity with a stubborn refusal to acknowledge basic facts about sex, violence, and life. The divide eventually hardened into permanence. One faction chased escalating absurdities deeper into unreality, while the other clung to the remnants of common sense and tried to endure.
Our digital records will persist as chilling evidence. An era so heavily equipped with knowledge yet so eager to discard it deserves study not as a curiosity, but as a dire warning of how quickly sanity can evaporate when truth becomes optional.
A Scriptural Reflection
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.
This verse is pertinent because it perfectly encapsulates the arrogance of our age. We have built systems, passed policies, and championed social movements that we branded as “progress” or “compassion.” Yet, by rejecting the objective truths established by the Creator, we have inadvertently chosen a path that leads to societal and spiritual decay. It serves as a reminder that human consensus, when divorced from divine truth, is a dangerous guide.
A Prayer
Heavenly Father, we humbly come before You, acknowledging that we have wandered far from the path of wisdom. We have called evil good and good evil, and we have blinded ourselves to the reality of Your creation. We ask that You open the eyes of this generation and soften the hearts of those who have lost their way. Please restore our ability to discern truth, grant us the courage to stand for what is right even when it is unpopular, and lead us back toward the peace that only comes from living in accordance with Your will. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
