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Don't Get Excited Or Hopeful About The System Hanging Its Own Out to Dry

2/20/2021

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We live in an atmosphere of intense demonic pressure. Every now and then the pressure appears to ease somewhat, which leads to a brief period of relief. These periods of pressure relief should not be interpreted as signs of hope; nor should they be viewed as potential turning points. Instead, a period of "pressure relief" should be recognized as a tactic - a brief, apparent retreat that precedes the next level of pressure intensification. Put another way, every relief in demonic pressure should be recognized as a step back that serves to set the stage for two steps forward. 

This is particularly relevant to any "step back" the System disseminates and promotes through its media. Any sudden media blitz that overtly criticizes, scrutinizes, re-evaluates, or condemns a System apparatchik should be treated with caution and suspicion. More often than not, all such media campaigns do is offer false beacons of hope.

When the System hangs one of its own out to dry, it does so primarily to maintain or rebuild the public's trust in the System itself. When the System puts one of its own in a difficult or vulnerable situation, it is working to persuade the public that, despite everything, the System remains a force for good - that it is and will actively deal with its corrupt and reprehensible elements whenever and wherever it happens to find them. These sorts of campaigns - broadcast far and wide and splashed across the System's ubiquitous media - are meant to instill a sense of justice being served. They are meant to comfort. They are meant to re-cajole complacency. 

In reality, the apparatchiks the System publicly hangs out to dry - be they CEOs, politicians, academics, celebrities, royalty, artists, or whatever - may be nothing more than voluntary or involuntary scapegoats and fall guys.

If they are voluntary scapegoats, they are rewarded handsomely for the manufactured ordeals to which they agree to subject themselves. If they are involuntary scapegoats, the System will simply and unceremoniously throw them under the bus. Either way, the System's fall guys serve the same purpose all fall guys do - they deflect blame, become focal points for pent up anger and outrage, and grant the protected party - in this case the System itself - an immense advantage. 

Unlike conventional fall guys, the System's scapegoats are hardly innocent or blameless, but their part in the System's actual corruption is often far smaller than the blame the System eventually heaps on them.

Hence, a state governor's stupid and evil birdemic decisions within the confines of his own little part of the world becomes a dumping ground for all national outrage and anger about the birdemic. The governor takes some heat, perhaps resigns, and the public feels a sense of relief at justice being served.

In the meantime, the System ramps up and implements its newest birdemic measures - or whatever else it has in store to ensure the continued advancement of evil, slavery, and soul damnation - and takes two steps forward, leaving the public in a much worse situation than it was before the "scandal" broke and "justice" was served.

The System can afford to throw any of its "assets" under the bus at any given time, and I'm sure we'll see many individuals or entities being steamrolled by buses in the coming weeks/months/years.

As detailed above, some of this will be simple fall guy stuff, be it voluntary or involuntary. At other times, the "victims" might be casualties of infighting, position-jockeying, or in-System, low-level warfare. Ultimately, the demonic intelligence behind the System aims to throw everyone under the bus, including its own servants.

Whatever the case, we should not be surprised by any of it. And we certainly must not regard such things as signs that the System is inherently good; nor should we believe such actions to be proof systemic reform.

​All such hopes must be abandoned. The only hope the System can offer now is false hope.

Real hope exists solely outside of and beyond the System, which is why system-distancing is so important. 
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bruce charlton
2/21/2021 08:51:48

Yes, this is a constant temptation. System Distancing, in a spiritual sense, is the only answer - because to be physically distanced from The System is nowadays impossible.

The great difficulty is to recognise how much has now been absorbed into The System - for example, the arts as they actually exist now, are inside it. Almost every 'club' also - so long as the club is (for example) an employer and has accounts. Only when relationships are wholly voluntary and affective can the System be avoided. (Idea for a blog post...)

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Francis Berger
2/21/2021 10:17:47

@ Bruce - "System Distancing, in a spiritual sense, is the only answer - because to be physically distanced from The System is nowadays impossible."

Yes, that's it. Though I admire homesteaders and others who physically-distance themselves from the grid/System, it is practically impossible to completely physically distance oneself from the System today. In some form or other, the System will impose some sort of "necessity".

But even if we could distance ourselves physically from the System, of what use would that be if it were not accompanied by spiritual-distancing?

As far as I can intuit, the key is to not allow the intrinsic physical necessity of physical reality to eclipse or obstruct our deeper spiritual reality (and necessity). In this sense, System distancing is about recognizing priorities rather than a futile effort to become physically detached from the System.

I am becoming increasingly convinced that the bulk of our spiritual learning and development in this world hinges on our attitude toward and thinking about the un-freedom of physical necessity and how it relates to our conscious choice to follow Christ/be on the side of God.

A great deal seems to come down to the choices we make concerning earthly bread and spiritual bread.

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bruce charlton
2/21/2021 10:29:55

"the bulk of our spiritual learning and development in this world hinges on our attitude toward and thinking about the un-freedom of physical necessity and how it relates to our conscious choice to follow Christ/be on the side of God."

Yes yes! I intend to continue thinking on these lines.

Ingemar
2/23/2021 18:21:36

When Lawrence Auster was still alive, I always wondered why he remained in New York City when his views (which would put him well outside--and to the right--of the Overton Window) would render him an outcaste in that polite society. I think it's because he already practiced a form of internal System distancing.

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Francis Berger
2/23/2021 18:39:21

@ Ingemar - That sounds like a good example.

Howard Sutherland
2/23/2021 19:31:50

Ingemar: I knew Larry Auster well during his last ten years or so in New York. That’s exactly what he did! Although we didn’t yet have this name for it.

William WIldblood
2/21/2021 14:13:59

As I was reading through this I was thinking that ultimately the demons betray and discard all those who serve them and then "Ultimately, the demonic intelligence behind the System aims to throw everyone under the bus, including its own servants.", you said the exact same thing!

An important difference between good and evil is in the attitude to sacrifice. Good sacrifices itself, evil sacrifices everyone else. Of course, evil can deceive some of its naive acolytes into sacrificing themselves but they are generally acting from despair and self-destructive impulses or have allowed themselves to be manipulated in some way.

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Francis Berger
2/21/2021 15:43:09

@ William - I like your point about sacrifice, and I think it's true that evil can manipulate or trick its acolytes into self-sacrifice, but the irony is the manipulated likely accept the sacrifice because they believe they are doing "good" (or are acting from despair and/or self-destructive impulses, as you observe in your comment).

A manipulated sacrifice cannot be a true sacrifice because it is based on deceptiveness and dishonesty. It strikes me as an inversion of authentic sacrifice for good.

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NLR link
2/21/2021 18:03:37

Good post and I completely agree.

If infighting within the System was going to break it apart and make it less destructive, it would have happened already. The whole point is that there are forces ("spirits of wickedness in the high places") that coordinates the System so that whatever happens all the friction is ironed out to further the cause of evil.

But if that is true, then the powers of goodness are also there and want us to work with them. Better to work with something good, have something positive to work for, than something to work against.

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Francis Berger
2/21/2021 19:18:34

@NLR - Yes, well put. The powers of goodness are also there, and that is exactly where our hope must be.

But the powers of good within the System, the little that might still exist there, will inevitably being trying to work against something. Our hope lies in working toward something. In my humble opinion, this something will have to be beyond the System.

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Howard Sutherland
2/22/2021 22:59:45

You describe exactly the very hook Governor Andrew Cuomo is now trying to wriggle off of.
Cuomo is a servant and acolyte of the System (his father was and brother is as well), and even looks rather Sorathic, although he’s a thoroughgoing Ahrimanic. So it’s a trial to resist succumbing to schadenfreude as he is publicly shamed for his high-handed arrogance re the WuFlu Panic and New York’s care homes.
Nevertheless it’s all for show; Cuomo has outrun his usefulness to the U.S. Democratic Party’s string-pullers. There is no-one on the side of the angels in this fake drama.
And in the United States, absent Trump (no angel himself), there is no presidential-level pol in the controlled-opposition Republican Party who is not co-opted.
Nolite confidere in principibus.

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Francis Berger
2/23/2021 08:01:15

@ Howard - Good comment. Yes, I think we must see these kinds of sideshows for what they are and ignore them. We have far more important things to focus on at the moment.

I'll complete the Latin you've used at the end of the comment:

in filiis hominum, in quibus non est salus.

(The two sentences together in translation, for those who may be curious: Do not put your trust in princes; they are but men, they have no power to save. - Psalm 146.)

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