Feb 7, 2023·edited Feb 7, 2023Liked by Celia Farber
I'm not a Christian or anti-Christian; I'm an adult gay man—though that is easily the least exciting thing about me. Perhaps being in a stable, monogamous, loving relationship of seventeen years with an indigenous man of great (indigenous) spiritual faith is the only thing spun from that sentence that matters. Faith, of any denomination, the humility of oneself before a universal power is a fundamental missing component of our current social fabric. People are trying to fill a God-shaped hole with narcissism, transhumanism and wokeism’s false promises: worship self, worship science, worship everything but something with a moral, existential imperative.
So, I am horrified, disgusted and sadly unsurprised by the culmination of a Satanic agenda, invocation, whatever the F that was we, and millions of media-addicted children, were forced to endure. I didn't watch the whole thing, just glimpsed Madonna’s baby-skin-face and a bit of Smith’s gyrating, because I know that witchcraft, like Vodoo, whether you believe in it or not, functions through hypnotic allegory and ritual as much as any debatably spiritual power.
Your piece was beautifully, eloquently written, and indeed there are many people of varied faiths, backgrounds, politics and beliefs who share your views. Moreover and primarily, for that of a world that isn't so enamoured with its ego. I hope the flagrancy of the Grammy's, Balenciaga and other recent assaults of Satanic messaging will galvanize people to the reality of the proposed debauchery. I think it will. Lastly, Pfizer's continued machinations and tentacles through American history from the AIDs epidemic until now are also deeply suspicious, concerning and suggestive of an ongoing, arcane, transhumanist agenda. I don't use evil lightly, as it implies menace with intent. But there is something evil within that organization.
Feb 7, 2023·edited Feb 7, 2023Liked by Celia Farber
The past few years, I've had a very difficult time finding music to listen to or movies to watch. Artists I used to like seem off somehow. Either they have gone woke zombie or Covidian (I won't forgive any artist who required the vax to see them), or the vibe seems hopeless and twisted. It's a combination of ugliness, nihilism, militancy, and inversion that seeps into one's bones simply from contact. Sadly this is also in children's programming.
In the car, if I don't have a playlist downloaded, I listen to a Christian worship radio station. As a former music snob, I used to make fun of Christian rock but now I listen because there is too much darkness in the other music.
A most insightful piece, thank you. Contemporary pop music has inclined toward the anti-natural (and therefore toward the Satanic) for decades. By that I mean it has inclined toward the denial of harmony. I was a music critic for American newspapers in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s, and while I tried to stick to classical and jazz (and the standard songs ca. 1920-1960 that jazz covers), once in a while I was forced to deal with current pop. I could hear the decline of harmony from year to year, decade to decade, until what had been the spirit of popular music (of your Jacques Brel, for example, and the many American popular songwriters of the Golden Era) became a zombie. Harmony used to be the place where melody and words married. Now it's just a small set of chords employed to prop up a nominal melody which in turn is there only to convey the darkness of the words. Production is king now, not music. (Curiously, the music of the Miley Cyrus song you cite is something of an exception.)
Excellent article, Celia! I have known about the satanism and rituals for quite a few years now and I think they decided to gradually make it obvious and "come out" (lol) of the already partially-opened closet around the time of the last US presidential election. I knew they would at some point because they'd have to. Too many people in on it, too many people with stories, too many people outing them.
Like you, I refuse to show any outrage because of course that's what they want.
I also gradually figured out that even though I was on the party scene in Chicago in the 1980s & 1990s, I am deep down pretty conservative, morally, and even now I'd go so far to say I'm a Proud Prude. Of course, being a prude is THE most uncool thing one could be right now. That and older, what a combo. I don't care. I feel like a rebel, and I've also always been that, at least. I repudiate the grotesque objectivity of women called "feminism" (what a joke) above all.
Agree that these satanists aren't rebellious and nor were any of the US rockers or pop stars - that is a such an American myth. They are all massive conformists, even the punk rockers. I am always amazed that people imagine they are anti-establishment. They were all on board being paid by WHO to sell the public on lockdowns and vaccines - especially Madonna and those other ghouls.
I don’t in any way mean to imply that I have read more than possibly a small percentage of your writings, yet I must say that this piece may be one of the best articles of yours that I have ever read! Not only have you crystallized the very essence of the situation, you have zeroed in on the cause as well as its progression.
In a way, I am glad that I knew you as a friend before I appreciated you as the insightful and profound writer that you are. On behalf of the people of Earth, thank you so much for all you are doing!
You depth of experience, moral certitude, and kind heart make this essay the only thing anyone needs to know about the current state of popular culture. Thank you for knitting together this narrative on the sad state of those who wish to harvest unsuspecting souls.
I haven't watched the Grammy video - I've seen bits when scrolling through Twitter - but not stopping - just don't need that in my life. I do not understand the choice to walk in the land of the ugly and self centered. It must be a lonely place. Love is to will the good of the other, as other - not possible in a state of self "loving" adulation and narcissism.
I know to some extent there is a need to know what is going on in the world, so I watch a little news, follow a few Substacks but then it's time to walk the dogs or work in the garden, paint a picture or even clean house - simple tasks done with joy even in difficult times.
Catholic writer Anthony Esolen writes a Substack "devoted to reclaiming the good, the beautiful, and the true." He writes about old hymns, movies, poems etc. It's a palate cleanser from our current culture.
Celia, your background and history, your life experience, work experience... you bring such a unique perspective to this conversation. Thank you for writing this, your voice is authentic and powerful.
I’m also a believer and follower of Jesus and heading into my 60s in the not so distant future. I was never as hip as you clearly were (are ;) but I did have a good run and a lot of fun back in the day and I couldn’t agree with you more on the joys of being old and old-fashioned. I’m heartsick about what has become of this world for the sake of my children and everyone else’s. This is spiritual war plain and simple, there is no escaping it. I’m thankful that at least these disturbingly disgusting displays are waking more and more people up to this fact, like you say. Everyone must pick a side.
It’s hard to stay upbeat and hopeful in these dark times but as a Christian I know how this ends (even if I don’t know when that will happen or all the details between now and then ;). There’s no doubt in my mind who ultimately wins this one and that is what gives me peace and security. Prayer is powerful medicine and free to everyone, I can’t recommend it enough. Peace and blessings to you and to all, thank you for doing what you do, Celia! 🙏🏻♥️
"...self-worship, (and even self-marriage.) All chugging nicely along in the pre-ordained direction of automaton-ism, individualism, separation-ism, and narcissism." There it is. Thanks, Celia, for distilling the putridness it to its essence - for your piercing observations and refusing to play along. You are an inspiration to the rest of us.
I don't react either, or even watch. It's all coming down in my view, anyway.
I appreciate your take - and framing. Also, far as I can tell you are neither old nor old fashioned. Timeless and classic are adjectives better suited to you.
Feb 7, 2023·edited Feb 7, 2023Liked by Celia Farber
What this makes me think of us Satanthony Fauci and his bro satanthony Blinken, and victrollia newland, and Gavin screwsome , oh and London Greed Breed
Agree it is an unutterably sad song across the board. Keep some flying shoes and a cape handy. And if you don’t know about these see Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark. There’s much more to America and this world than meets the eye.
I'm not a Christian or anti-Christian; I'm an adult gay man—though that is easily the least exciting thing about me. Perhaps being in a stable, monogamous, loving relationship of seventeen years with an indigenous man of great (indigenous) spiritual faith is the only thing spun from that sentence that matters. Faith, of any denomination, the humility of oneself before a universal power is a fundamental missing component of our current social fabric. People are trying to fill a God-shaped hole with narcissism, transhumanism and wokeism’s false promises: worship self, worship science, worship everything but something with a moral, existential imperative.
So, I am horrified, disgusted and sadly unsurprised by the culmination of a Satanic agenda, invocation, whatever the F that was we, and millions of media-addicted children, were forced to endure. I didn't watch the whole thing, just glimpsed Madonna’s baby-skin-face and a bit of Smith’s gyrating, because I know that witchcraft, like Vodoo, whether you believe in it or not, functions through hypnotic allegory and ritual as much as any debatably spiritual power.
Your piece was beautifully, eloquently written, and indeed there are many people of varied faiths, backgrounds, politics and beliefs who share your views. Moreover and primarily, for that of a world that isn't so enamoured with its ego. I hope the flagrancy of the Grammy's, Balenciaga and other recent assaults of Satanic messaging will galvanize people to the reality of the proposed debauchery. I think it will. Lastly, Pfizer's continued machinations and tentacles through American history from the AIDs epidemic until now are also deeply suspicious, concerning and suggestive of an ongoing, arcane, transhumanist agenda. I don't use evil lightly, as it implies menace with intent. But there is something evil within that organization.
The past few years, I've had a very difficult time finding music to listen to or movies to watch. Artists I used to like seem off somehow. Either they have gone woke zombie or Covidian (I won't forgive any artist who required the vax to see them), or the vibe seems hopeless and twisted. It's a combination of ugliness, nihilism, militancy, and inversion that seeps into one's bones simply from contact. Sadly this is also in children's programming.
In the car, if I don't have a playlist downloaded, I listen to a Christian worship radio station. As a former music snob, I used to make fun of Christian rock but now I listen because there is too much darkness in the other music.
A most insightful piece, thank you. Contemporary pop music has inclined toward the anti-natural (and therefore toward the Satanic) for decades. By that I mean it has inclined toward the denial of harmony. I was a music critic for American newspapers in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s, and while I tried to stick to classical and jazz (and the standard songs ca. 1920-1960 that jazz covers), once in a while I was forced to deal with current pop. I could hear the decline of harmony from year to year, decade to decade, until what had been the spirit of popular music (of your Jacques Brel, for example, and the many American popular songwriters of the Golden Era) became a zombie. Harmony used to be the place where melody and words married. Now it's just a small set of chords employed to prop up a nominal melody which in turn is there only to convey the darkness of the words. Production is king now, not music. (Curiously, the music of the Miley Cyrus song you cite is something of an exception.)
Excellent article, Celia! I have known about the satanism and rituals for quite a few years now and I think they decided to gradually make it obvious and "come out" (lol) of the already partially-opened closet around the time of the last US presidential election. I knew they would at some point because they'd have to. Too many people in on it, too many people with stories, too many people outing them.
Like you, I refuse to show any outrage because of course that's what they want.
I also gradually figured out that even though I was on the party scene in Chicago in the 1980s & 1990s, I am deep down pretty conservative, morally, and even now I'd go so far to say I'm a Proud Prude. Of course, being a prude is THE most uncool thing one could be right now. That and older, what a combo. I don't care. I feel like a rebel, and I've also always been that, at least. I repudiate the grotesque objectivity of women called "feminism" (what a joke) above all.
Agree that these satanists aren't rebellious and nor were any of the US rockers or pop stars - that is a such an American myth. They are all massive conformists, even the punk rockers. I am always amazed that people imagine they are anti-establishment. They were all on board being paid by WHO to sell the public on lockdowns and vaccines - especially Madonna and those other ghouls.
I don’t in any way mean to imply that I have read more than possibly a small percentage of your writings, yet I must say that this piece may be one of the best articles of yours that I have ever read! Not only have you crystallized the very essence of the situation, you have zeroed in on the cause as well as its progression.
In a way, I am glad that I knew you as a friend before I appreciated you as the insightful and profound writer that you are. On behalf of the people of Earth, thank you so much for all you are doing!
Celia
You depth of experience, moral certitude, and kind heart make this essay the only thing anyone needs to know about the current state of popular culture. Thank you for knitting together this narrative on the sad state of those who wish to harvest unsuspecting souls.
I always find your work highly readable, thoroughly interesting and very thought provoking. This piece is one of your best. Thank you.
I haven't watched the Grammy video - I've seen bits when scrolling through Twitter - but not stopping - just don't need that in my life. I do not understand the choice to walk in the land of the ugly and self centered. It must be a lonely place. Love is to will the good of the other, as other - not possible in a state of self "loving" adulation and narcissism.
I know to some extent there is a need to know what is going on in the world, so I watch a little news, follow a few Substacks but then it's time to walk the dogs or work in the garden, paint a picture or even clean house - simple tasks done with joy even in difficult times.
Catholic writer Anthony Esolen writes a Substack "devoted to reclaiming the good, the beautiful, and the true." He writes about old hymns, movies, poems etc. It's a palate cleanser from our current culture.
Celia, your background and history, your life experience, work experience... you bring such a unique perspective to this conversation. Thank you for writing this, your voice is authentic and powerful.
I’m also a believer and follower of Jesus and heading into my 60s in the not so distant future. I was never as hip as you clearly were (are ;) but I did have a good run and a lot of fun back in the day and I couldn’t agree with you more on the joys of being old and old-fashioned. I’m heartsick about what has become of this world for the sake of my children and everyone else’s. This is spiritual war plain and simple, there is no escaping it. I’m thankful that at least these disturbingly disgusting displays are waking more and more people up to this fact, like you say. Everyone must pick a side.
It’s hard to stay upbeat and hopeful in these dark times but as a Christian I know how this ends (even if I don’t know when that will happen or all the details between now and then ;). There’s no doubt in my mind who ultimately wins this one and that is what gives me peace and security. Prayer is powerful medicine and free to everyone, I can’t recommend it enough. Peace and blessings to you and to all, thank you for doing what you do, Celia! 🙏🏻♥️
"...self-worship, (and even self-marriage.) All chugging nicely along in the pre-ordained direction of automaton-ism, individualism, separation-ism, and narcissism." There it is. Thanks, Celia, for distilling the putridness it to its essence - for your piercing observations and refusing to play along. You are an inspiration to the rest of us.
I don't react either, or even watch. It's all coming down in my view, anyway.
I appreciate your take - and framing. Also, far as I can tell you are neither old nor old fashioned. Timeless and classic are adjectives better suited to you.
No words come to mind to express my disgust for how Satanism has taken over the entertainment industry... and more.
No one, but no one gets ahead in the mass Luciferian media unless they have "help." Talent is optional.
It is time to quit denying what is exposed before our very eyes.
Celia, I missed your writing these days. I am happy to read more from you and see that you are doing fine.
About this topic, I just want to say: Who is like God? Who can resist him?
Any fight against Jesus was already lost long ago. I see everything they do as whining.
What this makes me think of us Satanthony Fauci and his bro satanthony Blinken, and victrollia newland, and Gavin screwsome , oh and London Greed Breed
Agree it is an unutterably sad song across the board. Keep some flying shoes and a cape handy. And if you don’t know about these see Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark. There’s much more to America and this world than meets the eye.