Thoughts on LARPing

There has been much talking and LARPing and movie-making about civil war. We are not so much in the “Loot the Treasury” stage of decline, as the “Burn the Treasury Down” stage of decline. And who will win? That betrays a fundamental misunderstanding. There will be no winners. The only winning move is to not play. This is a war of complete mutual assured destruction.

The true ultimate cause of the war is not the wickedness of the upper class, or the lower class specifically, but the wickedness of the people of the American nation as a whole.

Of course, it is all just a movie and a LARP… until it isn’t.

There will be attempts to draw us into this conflict, by deceit, by false accusation, by force, by abuse and attack and by assassination. If we are faithful, and if we are wise, we will turn the other cheek, even, yes even when our lives and the lives of our families are at risk.

Let us remember the words of the apostle, Orson Pratt:

But what about the American nation. That [Civil] war that destroyed the lives of some fifteen or sixteen hundred thousand people was nothing, compared to that which will eventually devastate that country. The time is not very far distant in the future, when the Lord God will lay his hand heavily upon that nation. … It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, town against town, county against county, state against state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed and manufacturing will, in a great measure, cease, for a time, among the American nation. Why? Because in these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture, there will be too much bloodshed–too much mobocracy–too much going forth in bands and destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation with any degree of safety. What will become of millions of the farmers upon that land? They will leave their farms and they will remain uncultivated, and they will flee before the ravaging armies from place to place; and thus will they go forth burning and pillaging the whole country; and that great and powerful nation, now consisting of some forty millions of people, will be wasted away, unless they repent.

Journal of Discourses, Orson Pratt 20:18

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Journal_of_Discourses/20/18

See also, the Mouse Utopia experiment