(From a CAC General Reading, July 20, 1991)

QUESTION:

There’s a new book about to come out called "The Day America Told the Truth: What People Really Believe About Everything that Really Matters," written by James Patterson, chairman of the J. Walter Thompson Research on Consumer Behavior. I’ll read a little of this article and ask Awareness for a comment on where this is going. "Americans are making up their own moral codes, as they ease toward a new century that threatens to be "the wild, wild West" all over again, according to an exhaustive new national survey. Among the findings: Only 13% of the populace still believes in all ten of the Biblical Commandments. Nine out of ten citizens lie regularly, nearly a third of all married Americans have had an affair, a fifth of the nation’s children have lost their virginity by the age of 13, one in seven Americans carries a handgun with them or in their car; one in five women say they have been date-raped; and for 10 million dollars, seven percent of the people would kill a stranger. This statistical look into the heart and soul of a people produced a disturbing portrait of a nation without a common morality. Americans are making up their own rules and laws. We choose which laws of God we believe. There is absolutely no moral consensus in this country as there was in the 1950s and ’60s. The report said Americans believe their political, religious and business leaders have failed them. Worse yet is the press. A moral authority in their lives, Americans rate the press below fictional TV characters." The article goes on and on, but I’d like to ask Awareness: If this information is really true, what does Awareness see will be the result of this trend down the line, say by the turn of the century or better, as far as moral codes go?

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that the moral codes are those which have been eroding for some time, and this Awareness indicates that you must understand too, that cultures develop mores and mores become the moral codes of the culture, but the United States, since World War II, has undergone great changes in its culture, by incorporating more and more mini-cultures into it, and these mini-cultures — everything from Asian groups to Hispanic and to the freeing of blacks and their culture, and other ethnic groups who have been brought into the United States — all of these influences, along with the cultures that have developed within the heart of the American culture itself, such as various religious cultures and groupings of people, are creating in the United States a hodgepodge of cultures that are forming mores and moralities of their own, so that even movies become cult movies which develop moralities among the groupies or followers of that movie, and rock groups and musicians also have their followings.

This Awareness indicates that all of these things break down the continuity of morals — the gay and lesbian movements, the Reverend Moon movements, the Rajneesh movement, the New Age movement, the various religious movements, the TV evangelist movements, the various political movements. All of these things, even corporate interests and movements have led to a diversity of what is moral and what is right, so that what is right in one group may be seen as wrong in another.

Even in the computer world, there are those who have certain morals, loyalties, codes of ethics and those who have others. Thus, one group can freely justify copying software, while another group would argue that the software should be purchased and not passed freely from person to person.

Likewise, with other segments of society, the entity is correct in that groups are making their own moralities, and they are gaining their values from each other and from the influences in society that they accept. The drug scene has its own morality. The Mafia has its morality, its code of ethics. Thieves have their code of ethics.

This Awareness indicates that it appears to be a continuing trend and may create a greater breakdown of moral values, but there will come a time when something becomes meaningful. It appears that one thing the masses tend to agree on is their need for security. They all want security. At this time, many want security at the expense of others.

There may come a time when they realize the security requires that all have security, and this can start formulating a new kind of morality that assures security for all. This Awareness indicates that others see a basic need for individual freedom. Some do not care about individual freedom as long as they themselves are as free as they want to be, and would therefore deny the freedoms of others, in order to secure their own freedoms and this can lead to increased problems in regard to the nature of freedom and how it is derived and distributed.

This Awareness indicates that it appears this country is headed for a great change that could be disastrous, leading groups to fight with groups, or it could be chaotic to such an extent that it can be totally reorganized by a strong force that would come along and create new rules and new social conditioning.

This Awareness indicates that this new social conditioning may very well center around totalitarian definitions and systems that pull the nation together with totalitarian strings attached. This Awareness indicates that it is too soon to clearly forecast the outcome of such a breakdown of social trends and values, but there is clearly a great potential for totalitarian dictatorship to interfere and to create a new structure.

The concept of creating confusion and chaos and then introducing a strict structuring of energies is nothing new. It is an old trick, when entities wish to change a society — first confuse the society, whether it is a small group, or a nation, and then reorganize with new definitions, new rules, new structures. This appears to be part of the continuing conspiracy for ridding this nation of its historic Constitution and freedoms, to make it ripe for takeover and totalitarian rule.

This Awareness indicates however, that if it were allowed to progress naturally, there would be values that would begin to emerge in a natural sense, to allow a future integration of values in the society, so that entities could slowly and gradually adjust to new morals, new social morals and values without going through the totalitarian experience

This Awareness indicates the likelihood, however, is that of a totalitarian experience to emerge.