{"id":4326,"date":"2016-06-16T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marniemarcus.com\/unplugged\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2016-06-16T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:47:40","slug":"societys-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marniekuhns.com\/unplugged\/2016\/06\/16\/societys-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Society’s Solution: Get To the Root Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s wondering how to find solutions to society’s problems. But you can’t\u00a0effectively treat an illness by treating symptoms. You must know and treat the root cause.<\/p>\n

If someone comes to me who is struggling in some aspect of their life or business, I immediately try to find the root cause. This could be a belief, idea or habit (usually caused by trauma or conditioning) that is rippling out into the person’s actions and is producing the symptomatic problems.<\/p>\n

As I have observed and ferreted through society’s disturbing symptoms of terror, hate, anger, murder and depravity, I have followed the trail back to one root cause.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No One Else Is Talking About This (That I Know Of)<\/h2>\n

I’ve seen lots of opinions offered, but I haven’t seen anyone else hit upon this one. Hate has been mentioned, but what is at the root of hate? You have to dig deeper than hate. Hate is a symptom<\/strong> of a root cause. You, see if you are suffering from a bad enough case of this root cause, you HAVE to hate anyone who doesn’t agree with you… but I’ll get to why that is in a moment.<\/p>\n

I’d like to add,\u00a0there’s no pointing fingers here. I’ve experienced this ugly root cause as well. None of us is fully immune to the malady that ails us.<\/p>\n

So What Is the Root Cause?<\/h2>\n

In a word: Idolatry. That’s an Old Testament word most of us think was reserved for past generations who worshiped wood and stone idols. Surely, modern society is too sophisticated for that. But, hear me out.<\/p>\n

People invent their own ideological gods who will condone their own lusts and desires, making the activities and habits that grow from them\u00a0acceptable.<\/p>\n

Our gods morph<\/strong> to our imaginative indulgences and carnal depravity.<\/p>\n

We govern our make-believe gods<\/strong> with relative standards. Whatever feels good, feeds our egos, or justifies our behavior is the god-condoned course.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since our ideological gods are defenseless, they require defending.<\/strong>\u00a0In actuality, their only substance is our own egos which makes defending them a first order of priority. Any attack against them is an attack against our egos. Defending these ego-driven gods includes:<\/p>\n