Viral nation singer Oliver Anthony is looking on People to show again to their roots and quit false idols.
“I’m just here to remind you that we don’t need our false idols,” Anthony, whose actual identify is Christopher Anthony Lunsford, stated throughout a speech Tuesday on the Alliance for Accountable Citizenship (ARC) convention held in London.
“We should no longer rely on politicians who bow down to money to manage our city or our states. We need to find the real leaders everywhere and empower them,” Anthony stated.
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Anthony, whose 2023 hit tune, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” reached the No.1 spot on the Billboard Sizzling 100, stated that American society has grow to be gentle.
“Our modern society is [a] convenient, comfortable, fragile, little existence oftentimes carried on the backs of these self-declared nobodies,” he stated. “And forgive my generalization, but in the modern world, we are so busy idolizing the genuine nothings of society, the self-centered celebrities, spineless politicians, clickbait, social media influencers.”
Anthony added that “it seems from my perspective that oftentimes these people live comfortable little lives while many of our real heroes are drug through the mud and never once given a genuine thank you for it.”
Anthony, who introduced in an Oct. 29, 2024 YouTube video that he was leaving the music business to give attention to a “traveling ministry,” additionally shared his concern about how social media and the digital age are impacting society.
“What is bad is the lack of control and agency we have over these systems, and without realizing it, we are being programmed, and our culture is becoming commodified,” Anthony stated. “Therefore, the more time we spend on these digital information systems, the more we revert to the means of one of a fixed set of broad internet cohorts. In other words, the more time we spend online, the more commoditized our culture, the more tribal our psychology, and the more vulnerable we become.”
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Christopher Anthony Lunsford, who goes by the stage identify Oliver Anthony, warms up subsequent to a loading dock behind the buildings lining Fundamental Avenue earlier than a shock efficiency on the Rock the Block road competition on August 26, 2023 in Farmville, Virginia. (Getty Photographs)
A self-described “nobody,” the 32-year-old stated that America is hooked on screens.
“We at present exist in an age of fast digital immersion,” he stated. “The current average American teenager will have spent something like 30,000 hours by the time they are 30 on social media. The average American spends six to nine hours a day staring at devices.”
What does give him hope, the previous nation singer stated, is what he witnessed in western North Carolina in 2024 because the locals responded to the flooding and landslides introduced on by Hurricane Helene.
“Volunteer veterans with cadaver dogs that I had met with had pulled 15 bodies out of a single pile of debris near the KOA campground in Swannanoa,” Anthony stated. “The statewide count at that point had to have been well into the hundreds. I believe the number the governor used that day was 28. In fact, there was a reefer truck that sat for two days full of bodies because the morgues were overflowing.”
He stated what he noticed helped to provide him hope for the way forward for the nation.
“Volunteers were working 16 hours a day taking supplies on everything from horses to helicopters. It was humanity there in front of my very eyes,” Anthony shared. “And it was in that seven days in North Carolina that changed everything for me. It was people saving people.”
His new focus, Anthony stated, is bringing revival to “rural America,” in a mission referred to as The Rural Revival Challenge, geared toward bringing renewal to forgotten farming cities and communities.
FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA – AUGUST 26: Christopher Anthony Lunsford (2nd left), who goes by the stage identify Oliver Anthony, warms up together with his guitarist Joey Davis (1st left) as family and friends sit close by subsequent to a loading dock behind the buildings lining Fundamental Avenue earlier than a shock efficiency on the Rock the Block road competition on August 26, 2023 in Farmville, Virginia. (Photograph by Samuel Corum/Getty Photographs) (Samuel Corum/Getty Photographs)
“Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong, for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away, Anthony said.
“Belief within the Lord and do good. Dwell within the land and luxuriate in protected pasture. Take delight within the Lord and he offers you the needs of your coronary heart. And so I’ll see you on April the fifth in Spruce Pine, North Carolina for the primary official gathering. It’s now my life’s mission to revive rural America one city at a time.”
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