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The Other Side Knows Consciousness Is Key

5/10/2021

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"I'm really excited because, as I just mentioned, we have a new mindset. We have a new social consciousness. People like Greta Thunberg got very aware that something is wrong here in our lifestyles — that either we will have to suffer down the road or our children will have to suffer.

So we are now in a situation where climate change, or the attention given to climate change, provides a higher sensitivity for other deficiencies that we have.

I mentioned already a lack of inclusion, a lack of social justice, a system that is not necessarily fair in providing everybody with the necessary opportunities. And I think the pandemic has contributed to this new alertness, to this new sensitivity. Some people may say this is inconvenient because we pinpoint weaknesses in our society, but it's a wake-up call to adapt and to make sure that we have better lives. That's what we're fighting for."
                                                                                                      - Klaus Schwab, Founder, WEF

The other side understands consciousness is key. It is aiming to instill a completely despiritualized consciousness locked firmly within the objectification of the given world.  Once that is achieved, damnation is practically guaranteed.                                                                             


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bruce charlton
5/11/2021 07:27:14

@Frank - This passage is a good example of the negativity of the new ideology - people are stirred to be *against* some things -

"something is wrong here in our lifestyles... a higher sensitivity for other deficiencies that we have.... a lack of inclusion, a lack of social justice, a system that is not necessarily fair in providing everybody with the necessary opportunities... we pinpoint weaknesses in our society... That's what we're fighting for."

So 'we' are fighting 'for' becoming more sensitive in detecting a shopping list of supposed weakness, lack, failure, deficiencies... A morality of resentment, in other words.

Meanwhile, the positive agenda, what this is all supposed to be aimed-at, gets more and more vague and less and less convincing.

This has changed a lot during my adult life. Even mainstream TV programmes in the 1970s would try to understand what life is for, what we should be aiming at. They didn't get anywhere much - because God was not regarded as a possibility; yet the issue was very much there. Now such matters is never spoken about.

The assumption (very vague) is that *if only* the world could be rid of enough negative things (like racism); then life would be good and purposive.

At the same time, there are more and more And More negative things, obstacles to happiness, which people are taught to detect, resent, and want to eliminate.

Pretty obviously, this is a plan for general destruction - but unless one values God and divine creation, then there is no basis of positive Good against-which to know destruction.

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Francis Berger
5/11/2021 11:33:47

Bruce - Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. What strikes me is the open-ended nature of the supposedly positive abstractions, which all follow the same trajectory of "none are safe until all are safe." How can such a "positive outcome" even be detected let alone measured?

Freedom and the actual human person aren't entered into the equation at all (to say nothing God or Creation), and this pretty much reveals all we need to know about the new consciousness they want to establish - and where this new consciousness will lead us.

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imnobody00
5/12/2021 02:13:37

The possibility of an utopian future was discredited by Archipelago Gulag and the fall of the Soviet block.

Besides this, the Left was more monolithic back then: they could agree on an utopia of atheistic technological statism. Today you have ecologism with transhumanism with LGBTI with Islam. Any utopian dream woul alienate part of the "coalition of the fringes", as Steve Sailer calls it.

It is better to have a common enemy: Christianity, the white men, the straight men. A scapegoat (see Rene Girard) who is the cause of all the evil in the world and all the members of the coalition can hate and oppress equally. Nobody unites more than a common enemy. If your goal is "not blue", you can allow black and white at the same times, trannies with sharia lovers.

In addition, it is better not to have a positive goal so you are able to define progress as "whatever the elite wants right now". This way, forbidding religious headscarves was progress yesterday and allowing them is progress today.

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Francis Berger
5/12/2021 07:55:23

@imnobody00 - "The possibility of an utopian future was discredited by Archipelago Gulag and the fall of the Soviet block."

Not was, but should have been - but it hasn't been discredited at all.

The demonic powers care not for Utopia - their objectives are something else entirely. As for their minions, some truly are moved by Utopian visions, others by expediency and careerism, and others by bitter resentment and the desire to destroy.

The 'against' in leftism is usually far more powerful than its 'for' - that's very true.

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