Part one - this morning's events and my somewhat rambling and discursive reaction
That's a line from The Doors' When the Music's Over and there's another - 'all the children are insane'.
At 5 a.m. [it's now 06:19 and I'm up, sipping coffee], I just had three missals from different parts of the world which, by definition, never sleep.
One was my Russian mate who sent this:
“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.” - Terry Pratchett
Now isn't that interesting because on cue, in comes the blgr karen:
... and there is the same text for each item virtually deleted:
All right, par for the course, it's been said that I've been 'stirring' of late. Moi? Innocence personified? A veritable angel?
The third message was from the US and it described some very weird things inside the goldmine. It was a genuine journey late night she was on and yet the stuff of dark films, noir, with a dark highway, car lights parked by the side of the road up ahead, things breaking in the car, shan't describe it more.
There's an added bit of spice over there and that's the Christian conviction of those over there in that part of the world but the steady infiltration of decidedly weird people in the past decade, most likely from California, New England and the midwest.
A report came in of a church burning right at that moment, who knows, am still awaiting updates.
And thus being a true Christian makes someone a target now far more than if you're more like one of my two mates without any conviction of that kind. My two mates, mentioned first above, are also our standard readers here - secular, rationalist, just as able to see what's going down as Hitchens can, as a Christian can.
Now that produces two entirely different takes on the matter - one follows the pattern this blog has followed, identifying the problem 80% without understanding that this war is also on a higher plane, shall we say and the other recognising the role of the higher plane.
I never push that point because one can never convince the hardwired, one can only keep plugging away.
Continuity.
I'm not even going to address the actual blgr karen moves, they're predictable - more hardwired Wokery ... sigh ... there it is. Vox pointed out that if we're foolish enough to stay on platforms where the management hate us, then we have what's coming from them.
What I am going to do though is draw attention to two things. The first is my failsafe platform and email - if all goes down, just check into Gab and I'll write something there. Nothing is up just yet, that's if you see the whole shooting match go down.
The second and more important thing is to get our heads right on these things. I read, two days ago, that the worst of the seven deadly sins is pride and remember I keep quoting Agatha Christie on that. One does not associate religion with her but:
Agatha Christie's words put in the mouth of her Inspector Grant [N or M] are apt [written in 1941, remember]:
We want to do away with muddle and inefficiency. With bribery and corruption. With self-seeking and money-grubbing — and in this new state we want people like you and your husband — brave and resourceful — enemies that that have been, friends to be.
You would be surprised if you knew how many there are in this country, as in others, who have sympathy with and belief in our aims. Among us all we will create a new Europe — a Europe of peace and progress. Try and see it that way — because, I assure you — it is that way... His voice was compelling, magnetic.
And this feeling of being part of a New History, a New Dawn, a Brave New World, where, as Guy Burgess quoted to Philby's wife – the whole sordid, fetid mess of inefficiency, muddling and corruption will be swept away and the new society can take its place.
But the reality of this is, in Christie's words again in that novel 'N or M':
"You do not know the force of the ... propaganda. It appeals to something in man, some desire or lust for power. These people were ready to betray their country, not for money, but in a kind of megalomaniacal pride in what they, they themselves, were going to achieve for that country. In every land it has been the same. It is the Cult of Lucifer — Lucifer, Son of the Morning. Pride and a desire for personal glory!"
Christie's words, not mine.
This is what all those from blgr karens to the Cressida Dicks are about, this is why an out and out lie is being so vehemently, maniacally promoted:
But I've still not really got to the main point of the post, the second of the two things and it is this.
That exchange at 5 a.m. today with two people in other parts of the world illustrates that none of us are anything particularly special - we are just ordinary, not so humble people in our own way and yet humans require this exchange of ideas, our lifeblood. I'm no svengali, no guru, no Jesus wannabe, just a partly reformed, miserable sinner, like you.
The instant I start adopting this idea that I'm someone special, then please abandon any of my posts there and then. No overweening pride allowed, ok?
That's the bottom line. Some of us have read widely, been around, some have not but are still perspicacious - each of you is vital in your own way. The instant we think we're more important than that chap here, that chapess over there, is the day we should shut up shop and go somewhere else to indulge our egos.
A blgr karen who cannot distinguish right from wrong and maybe is even in fear of her job or maybe is just an apparatchik as in 40s Germany is not going to be persuaded by these words - she's been done over by professionals ... there it is. And as with Inspector Grant's miscreant - she thinks she's special, power has gone to her head over us, the common people.
We press on. Have a wonderful Tuesday, good people.
Part two - in which I clarify the above
Firstly, the Hitchens/Anderson interview/discussion - may I suggest that at 2 minutes exactly, for the next few minutes, it hits the nail on the head. The blgr karen who took down my posts today which I had worked on - that person really needs to self-examine. He/she most certainly does not hold the moral high ground he/she claims, in fact it's downright illegal.
https://youtu.be/KSgK_DHPBfU
Secondly, I need to explain to readers what has happened this morning. I did explain in the Weird Scenes post but not clearly, it was early morning and I was still coming to grips with what the blgr karen was going to do next, plus I needed to respond to my three friends - Russia, the US and South Africa. The one in immediate, extant danger was the southern American. Make no mistake, people, about this war we're in.
Thirdly, I mention Anderson and he mentioned 'lawfare' in Oz. Hitchens's line had been that the Boomers had all this freedom but no highways on which to take it, or rather there was a multiplicity of routes and no sound advice how to handle it. And the route which people with low moral compasses take, when given freedom, is licentiousness. See young people today, see their parents the Boomers.
Anderson's lawfare was interesting because minutes later, I discovered that the blgr karen had taken my posts down, summarily, in her own moral rectitude, abetted from above. Real apparatchik. The only one misleading in this is her.
Fourthly, the point I did not clearly make, being waylaid by the pride factor and the metaphysical, was that of the exchange of ideas between friends. Why the smoking ban in pubs? Why the real aim of the whole Cv thing? To stop us associating, by a myriad little tricks. This happened in the USSR and the way around it was the samizdat. Hence the blog called Samizdata.
Does the oppression from above result in changing our hearts and minds? Of course it doesn't. We have moral compasses, we know right from wrong and what is being done to us is wrong. With the nations thus divided, cue the CCP to step in, as they've prepared for this time for decades. Russia is under the same threat, they have always feared the yellow hordes from the east. Vostochni they call it.
Lastly, consider the two modes of ideas exchange ... firstly that of Hitchens and Anderson ... then cast your gaze across at this morning's takedown of my posts, also post-Weimar in the 30s, also the USSR, the rhetoric of Guy Burgess and the constant deplatforming of speakers nowadays.
Which is preferable? Thank you.
Missals, or missives? I suspect the latter, unless your correspondents hope to see you at Mass.
ReplyDeleteDeliberate choice. :)
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