The Decadence of America

Introduction

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.  

―   Mae West

Read the opening adage above.  I used to be a lot of things but I drifted also but I changed too.  Thankfully in my case, I changed for the good and left behind a life of lust and destruction and grew up.  Was the change easy?  No…heck no but it was necessary.  Because of this change, I am qualified to write this book and being a behavioral scientist for over thirty years also qualifies me to write this book.

My last book, Lust to Dust defined in no uncertain terms how living a lust-filled life always leads to destruction…ALWAYS!!  No one escapes this destruction; there is no way out of suffering the effects of a lust-filled life.  But there is a way out in changing and I describe this in the following Prologue – Laying a Proper Foundation right after this introduction.

The Prologue of this book is without a doubt the most important part of this book because, as I will demonstrate, the pervasiveness of lust in today’s American society as well as the world’s societies where it is even worse, is such that lust is causing all societies that embrace lust a severe spiraling of people into a pit of depravity.

Why is lust so bad?  Because lust is addicting; lust is fun and sensuous.  And I will show you how the human mind refuses to give up anything sensual. Impossible?  NO!  Difficult?  YES!  But necessary to free your life of this horrible bondage.

Many of you can’t see this bondage.  I will make it clear as I go along.  Many of you truly enjoy this bondage and you will die in your bondage after having served a life of lust.  Many of you will die early in life because of this bondage.  Everything has a cost and some of the costs are high.

How Decadence Becomes a Culture

This book is not a social scolding but with that said, in all of my thirty two plus years as a behavioral scientist and massive research into the human condition, I can never ignore the human mindset and how it interrelates as it weaves itself into a national culture. 

Change in and of itself is inevitable and change occurs not only in our respective personal lives but as a nation too.  The change I will be speaking about began in the 1950s, in the post-WWII era where our country began to prosper with the returning men from the armed forces.  The 1950s has become known as the golden era of prosperity and I was fortunate enough to grow up in this period of time.

Much of what I present may cause many of my readers to formulate questions.  Just write to me at treatpreston@epubwealth.com and I will do my best to answer any questions you might have.

As I said earlier, all of my human mind books include the Prologue section Laying a Proper Foundation which is the work of myself and my eleven other colleagues at AppledMindSciiences.com.  All of us at AppliedMindSciences.com use this content quite frequently in all of our human mind books.  This is very important information and as you will see, this content describes The Mechanism of the Mind and demonstrates how belief systems within our subconscious mind actually controls our actions/behaviors/conducts so in order to understand just how decadence can enter any life, you need to learn how your own mind functions and how to control your own mind and hence your actions/behaviors/conducts.  This section of the book is so important you may need to reread it over and over again since it is truly the foundation of what I will teach you in this book.

The subject of decadence is an interesting subject and a subject that all behavioral scientists research extensively.  People are not born decadent; decadence is a learned trait and the foundation to its existence rests in the desire, emotions and will of the human psyche.  Decadence is the child of lust and a lust-filled lifestyle breeds more decadence as it is fed by the person practicing a lust-filled lifestyle. 

Lust, in and of itself, is also an interesting subject of research.  Lust is the counterfeit of love and anything built on lust is doomed to fail because lust constantly needs to be renewed while love grows.  This need of renewal causes a person to become more decadent because lust seeks a bigger and bigger thrill in order to sustain itself.  In actuality, lust is an addiction and it is treated as an addiction since the results of lust breeds many forms of known addictions especially under the umbrella term of sexual addiction.

What I am about to present my readers is specifically designed to demonstrate how decadence has permeated American culture in many different forms from the latest legalized marijuana programs in Colorado and Washington to how pop culture in the form of music concerts are increasingly become drug crazed frenzies where numerous participants are becoming ill and overdosed as well as numerous arrests resulting in prosecution from the authorities as they try to combat the changing culture.

Everyone has an opinion regarding legalizing marijuana.  Some, like the photo above believe it is the answer to many of the state’s budget crisis.  My job is to present the facts and let my readers decide for themselves.   My readers need to consider the pros and cons of the argument and candidly, this is not going to be easy.  The facts don’t lie and offsetting one side for the other is a tough decision as you will see.

So, let’s begin with how America is gradually sliding into the pit of depravity.  Many people believe that America is not gradually sliding into the pit of depravity but diving head first into this pit so let’s look at the facts…

In this book, it is my desire to demonstrate how America is spiraling into the aforementioned pit of depravity and how it is affecting our social mores, our traditional beliefs and how it is causing American society to split along party lines.  The battle is between the liberals and the conservatives and it is fierce.

So let’s get at it and join the battle.  If you listen real closely, you may even hear the sounds of the bugles and drum as they beat cadence…

Prologue – Laying a Proper Foundation

As stated, I want to begin this book by offering an insight into the human mind as seen by behavioral science research.  By doing this, I will lay a proper foundation to what I am about to teach.

The Mechanism of the Human Mind

Prior to the fall of man into sin as described in the Garden of Eden, man’s spirit was hooked to God’s infinite spirit.  There was no death because God’s spirit is infinite.  Man is the only animal on earth that shares the eternality nature of God.  The subject of eternal life has been a heated topic of man from the beginning of our existence. 

In Greek mythology, there’s a story about a mortal youth named Tithonus.  Aurora, the goddess of dawn, fell in love with the boy and when Zeus, the king of the gods, promised to grant Aurora any gift she chose for her lover, she asked that Tithonus might live forever.  But, in her haste she forgot to ask for eternal youth, so when Zeus granted her request, Tithonus was doomed to an eternity of perpetual aging as a grouchy old man… forever.

In the movie Highlander, Angus McLeod was born in 1518 as an immortal being.  He could not die and to me, the best part of the movie was the depiction of this immortal's agony here on earth as he watched everything he loved die forcing him to begin his life over and over again. He saw all of the ugliness, which man had caused over four centuries.  He witnessed the Spanish Inquisition, Waterloo, the atrocities of the Third Reich, and more.  He saw the slavery and bigotry of the eighteenth century, the slaughter of the Native American tribes after the Civil War.  This man's life was a living Hell! 

There is a very big difference between the ways our feeble minds picture eternal life versus God’s idea of eternal life.  Our understanding comes from Quantum Physics and is limited within the Time-Space Continuum.

Life is your spirit, but the soul of man has usurped the spirit's position and psychology is now forced to define how we live our lives based on the animating force of the soul instead of the spirit.  As I