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The Unapologetic Cruelty of None Are Safe Until All Are Safe

8/26/2021

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Moderns have a difficult time wrapping their heads around evil. As far as I can tell, most contemporary people believe the global diktat of none are safe until all are safe is motivated by good intentions.

Those of a more skeptical mindset seem to take the Hanlon's razor approach of not assigning to malice what can readily be assigned to incompetence or stupidity.

Either way, very few people appear willing or able to call eighteen months of "none are safe until all are safe" what it truly is - evil. 

This observation started me thinking about the blatant and intentional cruelty permeating every single action, dictum, decree, measure, study, and communication the globalist totalitarians have employed since the start of the birdemic. It also reminded me of how unapologetic the totalitarians have been concerning their open cruelty.  

Setting concepts of evil aside for a moment, I refuse to believe that contemporary people are impervious to the obvious and tangible cruelty that has flooded over the world since 2020.

They must, at some level, detect the impetus behind all the intentional physical, mental, and spiritual harm they have witnessed and experienced, yet very few appear willing or able to address it, not even in their thinking.

If I were a psychology type, I would diagnose the problem as some form of masochism, for a dark masochistic streak does appear to stain the souls of most modern people. I don't know how else to describe the perpetual yielding to authority, especially the yielding to malicious authority that openly and un-apologetically denigrates, punishes, and humiliates.

Rational thinking and action would dictate a person would at least attempt to find ways not to surrender to the malicious authority. If for no other reason, than purely out of some sense of dignity or self-preservation. Yet modern people appear more fearful of the judgments of the malicious authority than they are of the actual harm the malicious authority inflicts.

More to the point, modern people seem willing to accept any inhumanity the global dictatorship dishes out in order to avoid the judgment of the global dictators. Or the judgment of anyone else for that matter - family, friends, colleagues, strangers.

To top it off, contemporary people seem to derive some sort of sick pleasure from the cruelty they endure. This pleasure appears rooted in the propensity to tolerate the ever-increasing viciousness without surrendering some faux-noble virtue of non-judgment, which elevates them above the hassle of thinking about the obvious.

They experience the wickedness firsthand, but would not dare to label those behind it wicked because to do so would open the possibility of drawing judgment upon themselves. And this seems intolerable to the vast majority of modern people. 

What would my tormentors (moreover, my family, friends, colleagues, and total strangers) think of me if I said, did, thought that?

Under such an arrangement, the tormentors feel no need to apologize for their cruelty.

​Why would they? 
8 Comments
Charlie
8/27/2021 01:28:36

Wow. Outstanding post.

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Epimetheus
8/27/2021 04:39:46

It seems downright medieval, but even after all the "progress" of modernity, the power of the Judgement Seat retains world-ruling domination.

I had a dream once where I was taken into a courtroom to be tried for my sins. Angels all around me, ready for trial. But I accepted their verdict, whatever it might be, and all punishment, however horrible, so long as I could have the stack of evidence they had against me, so that I would truly know why I'd done the things I'd done, my propensity for various sins being a mystery to me.

All I wanted was a long look at the binder they had on me. They could take me where-ever afterward, I didn't care.

In response to this, the Angels instantly threw out the entire case. They handed me the binder and walked out. Apparently, to accept all guilt and punishment was enough for me to walk free. That's all it takes.

Maybe that's enough to escape all the malice and condemnation and crushing humiliation of this world.

What if you say to them, "Jesus has forgiven my sins. Why can't you? I fall short in every way you say I do, but I still have love in my heart. Can I go now?"

Jesus said, "Live by the sword, die by the sword." I wonder if you 'earn' the right to live by the sword when you're willing to die by it. A warrior becomes a warrior when, within his heart, he accepts the possibility that he will be wounded, dismembered, decapitated, killed, all the rest of it. A sword will be swung at him where he cannot parry it, and he will watch the weapon go through his body.

What this means is, if you're willing to die by the sword, you can thereafter live by it - and still be in the right.

In other words, if we're willing to undergo all judgement ourselves for our sins, we ourselves can pass judgement on the rulers of this world. They may very well fear this more than they fear death. There was a podcaster who used to say this: "They don't fear death; they fear Judgement."

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Francis Berger
8/27/2021 20:05:14

@ Epi - "Apparently, to accept all guilt and punishment was enough for me to walk free. That's all it takes."

Yes, that makes sense to me. I don't believe in the conventional conceptualization of God as Divine Judge. I believe God gives us a choice about whether we want heaven, but choosing heaven entails acknowledging and repenting sin.

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Mike Bryant
8/27/2021 11:49:30

The world certainly has a "Kafkaesque" quality about it, which I suppose is what you get when your living in an uncaring evil bureaucracy.

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Francis Berger
8/27/2021 20:07:02

@ Mike - I get the sense that current events would have surpassed even the limits of Kafka's imagination.

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Jake
8/27/2021 16:09:30

Superb post.
Thank you.
"This pleasure appears rooted in the propensity to tolerate the ever-increasing viciousness without surrendering some faux-noble virtue of non-judgment, which elevates them above the hassle of thinking about the obvious."

However, those of us who don't go along, or who dare to judge the PTB, receive a swift dose of judgment from the average man or woman. Why is that?

I notice that professing a belief in God, or even pointing out that someone's non-belief in God is also "just" a faith, causes one to be judged. The idea that there is a God, a source of creation and morality and goodness, seems to drive the demonic influences insane.

To me, the masses seem to be under an evil spell. It's not explanable via psychology, except through very circuitous and non-convincing chains of theories.

But the idea that men and women are under an evil spell, literally, makes much more sense.

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Francis Berger
8/27/2021 20:16:10

@ Jake - "It's not explanable via psychology . . . "

Quite right. As I noted in the post, I'm not a "psychology type." I believe in the primacy of the spiritual, and everything we are experiencing now is deeply rooted in the spiritual. I used a well-known psychological condition to draw attention to what is essentially a spiritual contagion.

The masses may indeed be under some sort of spell, but this does not absolve them of personal responsibility. They chose to fall under the spell and continue to choose to remain under that spell. The masses are not passive victims, and we should not make excuses for them. (BTW, I'm not suggesting you are making excuses.)

Judgments lobbed against Christians carry no penalty and are usually instantly rewarded, so most moderns have no qualms about passing such judgments. They know their tormentors approve of such judgments.

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Hari Seldon
8/28/2021 01:07:21

Powerful post. We really are being subjected to abuse on a mass scale, and the worst part of it (in my opinion) is the denial, both by the perpetrators and the willing victims.

The acronym DARVO (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender) describes the reaction of abusers when trying to avoid accountability for their behavior. I am frequently reminded of this when I look around me.

There is a new propaganda campaign in my town. Signs are being posted on shop windows in my neighborhood, with the hashtag #TAKETHESHOT above photos of smiling young adults (all minorities). The captions boldly proclaim the reason why the person in question (supposedly) received the peck, in the format "I GOT MINE TO/FOR: X." These reasons include "get back to work," "go to college" and "my siblings."

It goes without saying that all of these are terrible reasons for taking an injection; the only possible valid reason is, of course, never mentioned.

What strikes me here is the brazenness with which the coercive nature of the peck campaign is being advertised. There's also a certain laziness to the propaganda. ("For my siblings"? What does that even mean?) It's as if the powers that be no longer care enough to make up a convincing story to control us; they are happy to just push us around and will even announce the coercion that is being applied, while framing it as a good thing.

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