Daniel, you wrote: "What does all of this mean? The Evil that’s now ascendant seemingly everywhere is so vast, so multi-faceted, that it’s difficult to understand it or to know how practically to fight against it." I've felt this way for a long time. My son and I were talking about this last night. Somewhere in the answer, I think, is simply living a moral, upright life along with, as many others have said, speaking the truth...always...in any circumstance.
Thank you, sir! That is one thing I have really come to appreciate, that pretty much every major religious system or spiritual discipline or even recovery group emphasizes the importance of Truth and considers falseness of speech and action to be psychologically damaging. The agents of evil seem overly concerned with getting everyone else to agree with their lies and even repeat those lies themselves. Once you participate in their lies, they got you, and the lies only get worse. As you said, the answer is "speaking the truth...always...in any circumstance." And that’s something I admire you for, as you have demonstrated a commitment to living truthfully!
Exactly right. If they can get you to say, for example, "Men can get pregnant" (2+2=5), they can continue to get you to say and eventually believe just about anything.
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
This kind of evil is harder to fight than you think. Any large organization will be subject Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
> in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":
> First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
> Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
> The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Very true. And the people who are devoted to the organization itself, rather than accomplishing whatever mission the organization is supposed to serve, probably tend more towards authoritarianism than those whose focus is accomplishing the organization's mission. The first group is probably also typically more Left-Hemisphere Dominant (preferring systems and models to Reality) as well.
One death is a tragedy. 10,000 deaths are a statistic.
This is why the Bible says "love thy neighbor" and follow the Law. It's doesn't say "love humanity." It doesn't work with how we are wired.
Trying to handle myriad special cases with rules leads to gigantic rulebooks which no one could follow even if they try. Giving giant organizations too much flexibility causes stupendously callous acts, since the victims are just a statistic.
Really big organizations need to be tighly bound to Law. Smaller groups can be more flexible, since they see people as humans.
<<"One death is a tragedy. 10,000 deaths are a statistic.
This is why the Bible says "love thy neighbor" and follow the Law. It's doesn't say "love humanity." It doesn't work with how we are wired.">>
1000% spot on! And what you noted about large organizations being by necessity legalistic is another point in favor of Distributism! I think smaller and more local is the answer to a lot of what ails our culture. Globohomo has taken centralization beyond the point of absurdity. Time to try the opposite!
> Giving giant organizations too much flexibility causes stupendously callous acts, since the victims are just a statistic.
Giving them not enough and they will attempt to follow their rules to the letter (not really since the rules are likely to contradict in practice but you get the idea) into a disaster.
That's why you need something local to handle the truly human angle.
Jury Nullification is an example. The jurors get to focus on ONE CASE and apply their judgment. They don't get to set a precedent.
And, as I wrote in Rule 6, have an elected school board for every high school. Then the school can behave as a semi-private entity instead of a legalistic machine which has to kowtow to the rules of multiple state and federal agencies.
Personal government requires the government to actually know the people and vice versa.
Daniel, you wrote: "What does all of this mean? The Evil that’s now ascendant seemingly everywhere is so vast, so multi-faceted, that it’s difficult to understand it or to know how practically to fight against it." I've felt this way for a long time. My son and I were talking about this last night. Somewhere in the answer, I think, is simply living a moral, upright life along with, as many others have said, speaking the truth...always...in any circumstance.
Very good article. Thanks.
Thank you, sir! That is one thing I have really come to appreciate, that pretty much every major religious system or spiritual discipline or even recovery group emphasizes the importance of Truth and considers falseness of speech and action to be psychologically damaging. The agents of evil seem overly concerned with getting everyone else to agree with their lies and even repeat those lies themselves. Once you participate in their lies, they got you, and the lies only get worse. As you said, the answer is "speaking the truth...always...in any circumstance." And that’s something I admire you for, as you have demonstrated a commitment to living truthfully!
Exactly right. If they can get you to say, for example, "Men can get pregnant" (2+2=5), they can continue to get you to say and eventually believe just about anything.
This is fantastic!
You articulate how evil hides behind bureaucracy so well. Thank you.
Thank you, sir! Now I get why CS Lewis depicted hell the way he did in The Screwtape Letters!
Thanks for the encouraging feedback!
Agreed
Jesus nailed it, named the children of the Father of Lies:
https://biblehub.com/john/8-44.htm
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
This kind of evil is harder to fight than you think. Any large organization will be subject Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
> in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":
> First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
> Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
> The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Very true. And the people who are devoted to the organization itself, rather than accomplishing whatever mission the organization is supposed to serve, probably tend more towards authoritarianism than those whose focus is accomplishing the organization's mission. The first group is probably also typically more Left-Hemisphere Dominant (preferring systems and models to Reality) as well.
Ahh the truly biblically informed - finally a speaker who knows the Truth and then applies it to this day. Thank you.
About when it this be available on your YouTube channel?
Having some technical difficulties with YouTube, but here is the link to the video on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v385w15-two-evil-empires-converge-communist-china-and-globohomo-america-gae.html
Thank you!
Don't mean to keep bothering you. I'll watch this eventually. The Rumble link, however, is listed as "This video is restricted/private" FYI.
Try it again. It may have been that the video was still processing when you tried to access it before.
One death is a tragedy. 10,000 deaths are a statistic.
This is why the Bible says "love thy neighbor" and follow the Law. It's doesn't say "love humanity." It doesn't work with how we are wired.
Trying to handle myriad special cases with rules leads to gigantic rulebooks which no one could follow even if they try. Giving giant organizations too much flexibility causes stupendously callous acts, since the victims are just a statistic.
Really big organizations need to be tighly bound to Law. Smaller groups can be more flexible, since they see people as humans.
<<"One death is a tragedy. 10,000 deaths are a statistic.
This is why the Bible says "love thy neighbor" and follow the Law. It's doesn't say "love humanity." It doesn't work with how we are wired.">>
1000% spot on! And what you noted about large organizations being by necessity legalistic is another point in favor of Distributism! I think smaller and more local is the answer to a lot of what ails our culture. Globohomo has taken centralization beyond the point of absurdity. Time to try the opposite!
> Giving giant organizations too much flexibility causes stupendously callous acts, since the victims are just a statistic.
Giving them not enough and they will attempt to follow their rules to the letter (not really since the rules are likely to contradict in practice but you get the idea) into a disaster.
That's why you need something local to handle the truly human angle.
Jury Nullification is an example. The jurors get to focus on ONE CASE and apply their judgment. They don't get to set a precedent.
And, as I wrote in Rule 6, have an elected school board for every high school. Then the school can behave as a semi-private entity instead of a legalistic machine which has to kowtow to the rules of multiple state and federal agencies.
Personal government requires the government to actually know the people and vice versa.