Ok. So here's a quick thought. Um I promised my kids I was gonna take them out and uh I have to charge a battery real quick. So I snuck in here. So I was reading this book that I got and um earlier today and, and I noticed it's a self published book and uh I noticed that the pages were way thinner than
they used to be because this is published on Amazon self publishing, same as I publish mine on. And so I, I wanted to affirm this and I went and I grabbed a really old copy of see you this Jesus that, that I got printed right after I finished the book and uh relatively new copy uh re repentance. And
I don't know if you can see, like you can't feel the pages. Obviously, I wanted to see if you can see these pages are actually, they're like almost transparent. Let's see if I can angle this. No. All right, you're gonna have to take my word for it. You can kind of see you see the words through there
. Yeah, you can totally see that. Ok. And here's an older, uh it looks the same. All right, you're just gonna have to take my word for it. The pages are way thinner and, uh, this is disturbing to me because the prices certainly haven't come down. Um, but it's just a good reminder of something that I
keep saying and I'm not sure if people believe me or not and whatever, if you do or you don't. But, um, so many things that we take for granted I, I'm talking like fundamental things, the ability to buy books or just to have open communication on the internet or even just to have continuous power. Um
These are all things that are a part of uh living principles. It's, they, they come out of and require living principles that as a society, we no longer live. So, um there will continue to be a cascade of changes where, how we act as a society is going to have to revert back to a time when people didn't
live the principles that uh whose fruits we all just grew accustomed to having if that makes sense. So to the point, uh there will come a time where there are many books that you cannot buy. Uh, we were, let's see, where was I with my wife the other day? I can't remember, but we were at some store and
I told her, I said, you know, stores like this are going to close because there will come a time where they just can't make money and there are things, it might have been Walmart or something. There are things that, that, that we've come to rely, come to rely on, uh, in the way we live our lives and
they're just not gonna be around anymore. And you know, I'm phrasing this in future tense. A lot of you are gonna notice that this has been going on for a while and, um, COVID didn't cause it, it COVID was just one of very many dominoes that, uh, well, it just kind of revealed the problem. It didn't
cause it, and it will continue to get much worse because almost everything we have that we consider, uh, our way of life is based on principles that we no longer live. So that's some food for thought.