The Whispering House: Reason Meta is Considering Leaving and What it Means for Our Soul

In D.H. Lawrence’s tragic short story The Rocking-Horse Winner, a family lives in a beautiful home that is haunted by a terrible secret. Though they have style, status, and luxury, the walls themselves seem to breathe with an unspoken anxiety. The children hear it at night. The toys hear it in the nursery. It is a constant, maddening whisper that says one thing over and over:

“There must be more money! There must be more money!”

Today, I believe the state of Washington has become that whispering house.

We saw the proof this week with the reports that Meta (Facebook) is halting its expansion in Bellevue, surrendering development rights and signaling a major retreat from the region. On the surface, this is a story about tax policy—specifically, the “socialistic idealism” of a one-party leadership that believes it can endlessly extract wealth from employers to fund utopian fantasies.

But if you look closer, this isn’t just about economics. It is a symptom of a deeper spiritual pathology.

In my latest Op-Ed on Medium, I argue that we are living through a real-time reenactment of Lawrence’s tragedy, while simultaneously ignoring the prophetic warnings given by Ezra Taft Benson nearly sixty years ago. We are seeing what happens when a culture becomes addicted to the “rocking horse” of material security while dismantling the moral fiber of family, faith, and liberty.

Despair is easy, but it is not a covenant response. So, how do we stand firm when the house is whispering?

Read the Full Article on Medium – The Whispering House of Olympia: Meta, Madness, and the Prophetic Warning (NOTE: The link lets you read for free. If you want to leave a comment or clap, you’ll just need a free Medium login).