In my last post I asked, “how can I help”? I asked because everything seems so overwhelming and so many people are working on so many angles, trying to understand what’s happened especially in these past few years, and what’s happening now.
My take on the very general trend of things is that a relatively small number of people have accumulated vast wealth, and with that wealth comes great power. One can buy influence and direct events with great wealth— this is how it’s always been. The collective wealth of what we call “the elite”— that shadowy group seeming to steer events toward their desired trajectory— is now unimaginable and unimaginably powerful. My take on what they want now is total control; these people lust for power and have plotted how to gather everything and everyone unto themselves and divide the spoils among themselves. We can be sure they’ve hired all sorts of people to help them figure out how to do this, not the least of which would be social psychologists and propagandists. They’re lustful (for power) and driven but not stupid. They’re calculating and crafty. But, they’re not human like the rest of us. Their god is one we can’t understand, and their designs are alien to the vast majority of the good people of this world.
What does Handel have to do with this? I recently discovered him and fell in love with his concerti grossi (yes, I had to look up the plural) as these speak to me of humanity and light and reason and even faith (but, I disagree with bringing religion into this; religion is a private affair, while appeal to reason is a common endeavor and undisputed guidepost.) Wonderful stuff. The same goes for Beethoven’s quartets, especially, for me, the Opus 74, “Harp.” This is who we are. These things represent our humanity and our being. But even folks songs are our humanity, even simple songs can be expressions of who we really are.
We’re fighting monsters, of that I’m convinced, as so many of us are. So what can we do?
For those fighting on the front lines who have the intelligence, the time, the training, and the persistence and integrity, I thank you. You’re the vanguard of our efforts. Countless of us do the best we can and try to keep up with the fire hose of information coming out daily.
What can the rest of us do? Here’s what I think. Relate to people. Engage with people on a human level. Don’t become bitter or despairing. Relate to people, work with people, participate, establish good human relationships and simply be ready. I don’t call people ‘sheep,’ I simply see them as naive as I was 20 years ago. And, subjected on a daily basis to massive propaganda. Yes there’s a small minority of real deadbeats out there but most people are good and decent, even if sometimes mistaken, as we all are at times.
I have a few friends that I’ve made some difference with in simply by talking and expressing my views but not being insistent or too “out there”: let’s be aware that a lot of people are repulsed by the idea that their government might be trying to kill them. They won’t listen. Sometimes we can reach them by showing them the real science on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine by way of showing them— not simply telling them— that their government is lying to them. So we have to educate ourselves and be ready to respond when we can.
The sleep of reason produces monsters and it looks like we’re pretty much there. Fixing this mess will be huge, but first we have to wake up, and then we have to “just say no.” I believe the power of masses coming to their senses and recognizing what’s being done to them is huge. It’s fair to say that right now, nearly everything has been corrupted and that our first reaction to any authoritarian dictate should be to be suspicious of it and question who and why.
We can talk to people, we can leave printed material around to help guide people as they casually come across that material.
I’m an upbeat person, considering that I understand that it’s way nasty out there. I have faith, and we all have to have faith in each other, in Handel, in what Beethoven told us, in who we really are. No matter what, we have to preserve that light that is in all of humanity against those who have already gone mad and wish to impose their madness on us.
As for me, what can I do? Well, ‘whatever I can’ is the answer. But for now maybe I’m just a preacher and someone saying to keep the faith, because we have no choice.
I'm glad you're here defending reason and logic, Jim. It's been a very friendly debate I've been having with Guy Duperrault in his post The Good of Evil and the Evil of Good, that I link in this one: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/yuval-bibi-and-maajid. I'm for both the spiritual and the logical as two sides of the brain that need to always be flipping the revelations back and forth.