Justin Bieber’s life, for all its glittering success, is a story of tragedy — a cautionary tale of a simple kid thrust into a world of sadistic sleaze. At the age of 13, the Canadian artist burst onto the scene with “Baby." A fitting title if there ever was one. In Bieber’s case, the transformation was shocking. His once-wholesome image was replaced by tattoos, addiction, depression, and erratic behavior. You see, Bieber was just that — a baby surrounded by child predators. The entertainment industry, often seen as a glamorous playground, has repeatedly failed to protect its youngest stars. This isn’t a glitch in the system; it’s how the system operates. The entertainment industry is a breeding ground for manipulation, abuse, and exploitation. It's a place where innocence goes to die. Recently, Bieber, now 30, has faced some criticism (most notably from Maureen Callahan and Megyn Kelly) for not commenting on the arrest of Sean "Diddy" Combs. While Kelly questioned why Bieber has not spoken out, Candace Owens took the conversation in a much darker direction. What did Diddy do? In a recent episode of her show, titled "What Did Diddy Do to Justin Bieber?" Owens raised unsettling questions about the disgraced music mogul's interactions with Bieber when he was just 16. While Owens has a taste for the sensational, her points deserve attention, especially given the context. She referred to footage of Bieber, apparently under the influence, at one of Diddy’s infamous parties and asked whether inappropriate behavior may have occurred. "Justin Bieber is not sober," Owens said. "He is clearly very under the influence at this party. ... Diddy may have done some inappropriate things with him." He may have. Then again, the lube-loving lecher may not have. But this is Hollywood we are talking about, a place where young stars are routinely deceived, defiled, and discarded by those who make and break careers. In Bieber’s case, the transformation was shocking. His once-wholesome image was replaced by tattoos, addiction, depression, and erratic behavior. While the world pointed fingers at his antics, few paused to ask how this teen found himself in such a dark place so quickly. Bieber's story is hardly unique. It's very rare to find a child star who isn't damaged in some way. Britney Spears didn't just start dancing with knives out of nowhere. Predator’s paradise HBO’s 2020 documentary "Showbiz Kids" presented firsthand accounts of former child stars who described the emotional, physical, and sexual exploitation they endured. Todd Bridges, famous for his role on "Diff’rent Strokes," recounted his own experience of being molested as a child actor. Similarly, Evan Rachel Wood openly discussed how children in Hollywood are routinely subjected to various forms of abuse, including sexual exploitation. More recently, the docuseries "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" exposed the toxic, destructive culture that child actors faced while working on Nickelodeon shows. Drake Bell, former star of Nickelodeon's "The Amanda Show" and "Drake and Josh," disclosed that dialogue coach Brian Peck had sexually assaulted him. In 2003, Peck was sentenced to 16 months in prison and required to register as a sex offender. Bell, whose identity was kept confidential at the time, described Nickelodeon as a “factory” that treated child actors as “expendable.” Corey Feldman, perhaps one of the most tragic figures to emerge from the 1980s child star circuit, has been vocal for years about the pervasive problem of pedophilia in Hollywood. Feldman, who was sexually abused as a boy, told the Guardian in 2020 that "the biggest problem in Hollywood is pedophilia.” He emphasized how children, lured by the promise of fame and fortune, often find themselves caught in a web of coercion by powerful figures who go unpunished for years. For young men, it can be especially difficult to discuss abuse, particularly when the majority of the perpetrators are other men (a fact that Megyn Kelly, to her credit, acknowledged). Watching Feldman perform with his rock band today might prompt some to snicker, but what you are witnessing is the struggle of a grown man whose innocence was stolen at an early age. This is tragedy playing out, not comedy. Empathy, not enmity This brings us back to Justin Bieber, whose body is now a canvas for over 70 tattoos. Many studies have shown a significant link between trauma and an obsession with tattooing, suggesting that individuals may turn to body art as a form of coping or expression. His well-documented struggles with addiction and various mental health issues reveal a painful journey marked by existential obstacles. It wasn’t until the singer found solace in faith, embraced the power of prayer, and married Hailey Baldwin, daughter of Baldwin family oddball Stephen, that he began to heal. The question we should be asking isn’t why Bieber has remained silent on certain issues but whether he’s okay. As he stated in "Lonely," a song released a few years ago: “And everybody saw me sick / And it felt like no one gave a s**t / They criticized the things I did as an idiot kid.” “What if you had it all / And it felt like nobody to call? Maybe then you'd know me / 'Cause I've had everything / But no one's listening / And that's just lonely. I'm so lonely. Lonely.” Even if Diddy didn’t molest him, Bieber is a survivor. He deserves grace. His life has been a roller coaster — full of exploitation, despair, and drug abuse, but also fortitude, faith, and redemption. The industry failed to offer him protection. And yet somehow, despite everything, Justin Bieber is still standing.

Democrats are fortunate that babies can’t vote, because even a preborn child in utero could see that the party that claims to protect the vulnerable is more passionate about abortion today than it was about slavery in 1824. Vice President Kamala Harris is running for president, but her social media feeds and public speeches sound more like something you would expect from Planned Parenthood’s communications department. Harris rushed to Atlanta after ProPublica published a story claiming 28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman died because of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. The truth is that Thurman, already a mother to a 6-year-old son at the time and pregnant with twins, suffered complications from the abortion pills she took to terminate her pregnancy. If conservatives told poor black women to abort their babies, civil rights organizations and race commentators would react very differently. As is often the case with progressives, the facts are not nearly as important as the narrative, and what Democrats are selling to voters this election cycle is that there is no higher priority in America than women having the “right” to intentionally end the life of a baby in the womb for any reason up until the point of birth. I am not sure who exactly is advising the Harris-Walz campaign, but it is morally repugnant to build a political party on the notion that destroying innocent human life is “empowering.” Democrats have transformed their views on abortion from “safe, legal, and rare” to abortion on demand — even when a woman in labor is dilating. The progressive organizations and voters who power the party think that every woman is worse off in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, but they are particularly focused on the black women they believe are the biggest “victims” of pro-life laws. Vox, a popular progressive news site, published the headline “Black women will suffer the most without Roe.” PBS News published an article entitled, “Black and Hispanic people have the most to lose if Roe is overturned.” None of these headlines should come as a surprise, given the fact that black women account for roughly 40% of all abortions in America. The idea that liberation is found in destroying one’s offspring is not confined to mainstream media sites. The Congressional Black Caucus, BET, and some of the most popular black athletes and entertainers all promote Planned Parenthood’s abortion agenda. In 2016, 100 years after Margaret Sanger opened her first clinic in Brooklyn, black women in New York City had 22,123 live births and 21,990 induced abortions. That year was no anomaly. Close to half of all black women’s pregnancies in America’s largest city end in abortion, yet these disparities provoke little public debate among activists who champion the value of black life. Progressive politics has made abortion a key battlefront in the fight for racial justice. If conservatives told poor black women to abort their babies, civil rights organizations and race commentators would react very differently from the affirming stance they take today. If the NAACP were honest, it would rename itself the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.” Thankfully, the white social conservatives who power the pro-life movement are willing to spend financial and political capital to protect black babies. This is what true anti-racism looks like, and I have seen it up close in the past few years, from the attendees at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., to events put on by pro-life organizations like Live Action. I saw it again when I spoke recently in Detroit at a pro-life benefit dinner for Right to Life of Michigan. The organization works hard to do African-American outreach, especially since black women make up about 15% of the female population in Michigan but account for about 55% of all abortions in the state. Although I appreciate these organizations, they shouldn’t have to carry this burden alone. Civil rights organizations should be the most pro-life institutions in the country. If they truly believed that black lives matter, they would be on the front lines of the fight against abortion, standing arm in arm with other pro-life groups. Unfortunately, that’s not the case today because Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, which receives 90% of the black vote, seem as intent on limiting the African-American population as an exalted cyclops from the 1920s. Democrats know they can promote abortion, despite its disproportionate racial impact, as long as they frame pro-life laws as aiding and abetting “white supremacy.” This is one of the dynamics that makes modern race politics so infuriating. Progressives are quick to talk about the destruction of the “black body,” racial disparities, and abortion — but never in the same sentence.

You may not be interested in the Amazon plant drug that lures spiritualism-hungry technologists into the care of indigenous shamans … but ayahuasca culture is interested in the tech industry, and that, like it or not, impacts us all. On X, it’s a trending problem: While a fair share of veteran trippers insist it’s not a life-ruiner, the horror stories keep mounting, and not just about the notoriously protracted and painful experience of consuming and processing the drug itself. CEOs are no longer satisfied with being CEOs — they want to be priests and official spiritual authorities on who and what to worship and how. Not infrequently, the use of the drug leads to the same kinds of phenomena associated generations ago with LSD culture: burning out, zoning out, dropping out — all of which tend to put a severe damper on, say, one’s ambitions as a startup founder or Big Tech striver bent on world domination. It’s enough of a thing to put the tech press and the tech industry into agreement. These days, that’s as rare as an uneventful “aya” experience. “VC the other day told me, ‘We've lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn't care about much any more,’” Bloomberg writer Ashlee Vance recently recounted, prompting garrulous VC Marc Andreessen to repost with a ‘nuff-said “This is true.” Many stories can be told here about why this is going on — not least among them the hoary narrative about the shared postwar roots of mid-century techno-utopia and drug utopia, forged in the conspiracy-theory-laden fires of Nazi science, CIA drug labs, and the eerie Californian nexus between the nascent deep state and the hippie scene. For just a sip from this almost bottomless well, read up on Michael Hollingshead, the “sinister Austin Powers” who spread acid, acid culture, and the political earthquake it ushered in across the Anglosphere and beyond. But there’s a deeper story still than the will to post-humanity behind the West’s attempts to fuse technology and fantasy into a transformative singularity. There really is something unique about digital tech, and not exactly in the way its own progenitors believed. For all the intensity of the Leary generation’s belief that the inner individual trip of psychedelics could be recreated as an outer, collective trip by computers, the subtler and more fascinating development has been the way advanced technology has thrown people back onto more formal ancient religions. The tremendous political, economic, social, and spiritual destabilization of the TV era was the soup in which the creators of our digital world were born and raised. But digital has a logic of its own, independent of the passions and fantasies of its makers — and that logic is to sow tremendous boredom and doubt in digital natives toward anything that feels contemporary or manufactured. That’s why illusion and propaganda have had to turn the knob to 11 in order to move the needle even a modest amount. Yes, the dwarfing of the human-caused by the dominance of the digital has thrown ever more people seeking a justification for their humanity back onto the deepest resources they can find at their point of origin — characteristically, the founding religion of their civilization. What this vast trend has caused in the tech industry is a loss of interest in business by many of the most successful businessmen. CEOs are no longer satisfied with being CEOs — they want to be priests and official spiritual authorities on who and what to worship and how. And in America, which has incubated so many cult leaders for so long that we even started spawning those of other civilizations, business has been a spiritual enterprise, and spirituality a business, for a long time already. So nothing is easier than slipping yourself into the CEO-to-priest pipeline, whether by recourse to that “plant medicine guide” or to one of Silicon Valley’s many “vibrant” gnostic sects. Alas, none of those options have the staying power of, say, the average televangelist. Spiritual burnout awaits even those who redescribe professional burnout in the tuned-in shamanista terms of connectedness and release. Awaiting such suffering refugees are the priests of the ancient Christian churches in America, many of whom have been quietly cultivating and passing down the holy tradition of working toward union with God the old-fashioned way: through the ascetic, athletic spiritual practice of putting the mind in service of the purification of the heart, no drugs or bots required … in fact, quite the contrary. Who better to trust for spiritually authoritative guidance about how and whether to use humanity’s most powerful tools?

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