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An Evil System. Any Questions?

1/7/2021

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My use of this clever Crowder meme is not meant as an endorsement of the man. In all honesty, I don't know much about him.
Back in October 2019, I wrote a brief post in which I asked the following question: 

Do you see evil in a corrupted but otherwise good system, or do you see only an evil system?

It goes without saying that most modern people do not perceive any evil in the System at all. In fact, I will be so bold as to say the vast majority are oblivious to existence of the System itself. As you would expect, the question I asked in that 2019 post was not aimed at the majority, but rather at members of a small, perceptive minority whom I categorized into two distinct camps: those who regarded the evil in the System as mere corruption, and those who appraised the System as intrinsically evil.

The post was shared on several blogs and went on to be one of my most viewed of 2019. Surprisingly, the question I posed in the post proved rather contentious and sparked considerable debate - well, considerable for my blog anyway. Agreement about wholesale corruption within the System was unanimous among comments, but this consensus splintered once possible origins or causes of the corruption were put on the table.

As I mentioned above, I published the post in October, 2019. Repeating the question I posed then in light of everything that has transpired since strikes me as superfluous.

Peace be with you if you are among those who still maintain that the System is merely corrupted.

If you are among those who are inclined to think differently, be of high spirits!

Decisive recognition and acknowledgement of systemic evil was the whole point of 2020. We are now free to focus our energy and time on the Good, which, in the here and now, resides almost exclusively beyond the System. 

Look there.  
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William Wildblood
1/8/2021 10:40:10

The System is certainly evil and meant to be. That has not always been the case but any form of organised society which does not have God as its defining principle is going to be evil. Now we have not only lost touch with the spiritual, we are increasingly losing touch with the natural as well. That's an inevitable development, no doubt.

As for whether people recognise the evil or not, this is down to the orientation of the heart. A heart in any way responsive to truth must see the corrupted state of society and culture. We really are at a crossroads with the division of humanity into sheep and goats

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Francis Berger
1/8/2021 12:15:57

@ William - I believe all systems contain/contained varying levels of corruption, but what we are witnessing today certainly is evil - and all of it stems from the lack you mention.

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William James Tychonievich link
1/8/2021 11:05:56

I think just about everyone will agree with this. What they have in mind when they say "the System" is another question . . .

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Francis Berger
1/8/2021 12:11:50

@ Wm - Fight the power!

In all seriousness, that's a good point. I guess definitions of what the evil system is play a role in separating the sheep from the goats (to connect to William's comment above).

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Michelle
1/9/2021 12:36:41

As a previous woke person, I didn't believe that there was anything evil. Evil was a religious notion and religion was for stupid people. Everything was a shade of gray. Interestingly enough, here in the US, the biggest hottest decorative color for house interiors and furniture is gray.
It's 2021. The system is beginning its purge and reboot/reset.

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Craig Anderson
1/9/2021 16:30:17

"corrupted but otherwise good system" We have a constitutional government(gov) and a corporate technocracy(tech). gov and tech are intermixed and in conflict. Is some sort of gov/tech divorce possible? Perhaps that is the conflict we are witnessing. If in some way gov/tech divorce I would say gov would be corrupt but good. If tech prevails I say only evil.

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Ingemar
1/10/2021 18:44:00

The System is Liberalism. And Liberalism is the doctrine of the serpent who deceived Eve.

I see that many who are trying to stand up to the various purges in the recent days have appealed to "free speech" and the various and sundry freedumbs granted by the Constitution, a document drafted by formerly seditious insurrectionists who attacked the very concept of rule by divine right.

You can see the problem right then and there. Whoever craves power can attack Divine order in the name of freedom--but when they've obtained their power, they themselves are vulnerable to the same sort of insurrection that gave them their legitimacy.

I see on the Right people trying to fight the new world order by appealing to nationalism, free speech, freedom of association, etc. etc. not realizing that returning to the last good configuration of liberalism (all of these positions were expressions of liberalism in the yesteryear) will simply set their stones higher on the slippery slope.

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Francis Berger
1/11/2021 07:33:07

@ Ingemar - No political system will ever be perfect, but you're right - exchanging one form of liberal slavery for another won't solve anything.

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