I want to tell you a Biblical story about a King named Nimrod, a descendant of Cush, a descendant of Ham, one of the sons of Noah, who ruled a kingdom that began with Babel but increased into many regions and cities. But in a land called Shinar on a plain, there were people of the earth who spoke only one language. As a matter of fact, everyone at this time spoke only a single language.
This resulted in those in Shinar commonly agreeing on the making of bricks that would all be made in the same way, and use them to build a city and a tower that would reach all the way to heaven. Gen 11:1-9 In doing so, they would make a name for themselves, a name that has power, power because they were all together in one voice to make it happen. However, God came down and brought diversity to their speech, and thus all began to speak various languages, resulting in their dispersal over the earth. Why did God break up this common effort to arrive at His doorstep?
Power to accomplish such things is promoted out of imagination; the purpose is to only do what one wants based on what can be imagined, even if it is not the right thing to do. So, they all came together and spoke the same thing, and by it, they perceived having the power to build a tower that would reach all the way to heaven. Therefore, I challenge you to see something here: when many people come together, all speaking the same thing, they have great influence and often believe they can actually do whatever they want, even build a tower that would reach all the way to heaven.
So, is it right that any specific group of people should have such a power that’s derived from their ability to all speak the same biased thing solely to accomplish their desired goal? Well, let me tell you another story about individuals who belonged to integral organizations that felt they were part of an effort to provide truth by revealing the facts of things going on all around us in this nation and the world. They believed they were to reveal the truth that pertains to our politics, government, military, social issues, education, economics, and everyday life issues that could or do affect the people of this nation. They called themselves journalists, reporters, and newspaper people, all having integrity and respected for their efforts.
I am sad to say this story, like the Babel one, does not have a good ending, since many of these individuals and the organizations they work for have devised a way to influence all of these areas by simply coercing through bias-based speech (or a controlled narrative) instead of the real truth. They found that by organizing their narratives or the same words on our government, education, economics, civil and military powers, they could control the emotions of the majority of everyday citizens, and inciting a mob-like effect, could shut down any contrary narratives that might challenge their actions.
I must add that more importantly, they found that it favorably affects their personal social status within the media foundations and among those who also see their efforts as an influential paralysis to diverting any truths. While they may not be using bricks to build their tower of Babel, they’re all the while this occurs purposely extracting financial profitability from those who are supposed to be the recipients of said truths.
So just as in the story of King Nimrod and the tower that came to be called Babel, there will come a day when the speech of these individuals will be so dispersed with anti-God rhetoric that it will no longer have a corporate effect upon the people of this nation, and no longer for any socially driven, egotistical imagination will common speech be the truth as it was supposed to be for the well-being of all.
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