***The answers to the looming civilization threat is not simple. To do nothing in the face of existential threats would be an act of self-extermination. René Girard himself that he was not a pacifist. His ideas provide us with really powerful tools we can use in our own lives. On a societal level, we can ask ourselves if we are taking part in the scapegoating mechanism as it unfolds, taking out our petty rivalries on the innocent in order to release our tensions and unite with our foes.
“A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.”
Girard… the only choices we have are to join the persecution of the victim, or to stand alone. The only way to end scapegoating, according to Girard, is to stop participating in it, to shine a light on it and expose it. ***
Just as a quick addition to this Middle Easter, now World wide issue, I want to point out that this isn’t a phenomenon that is Exclusive to that conflict.
I’ve debated people for months, years now, about the Nature of the forces that seem to be attacking Humanity.
Since 2020.
I’ve always tried to make Sense of it. I’ve given room to be Proven wrong, to have my opinions and the way I’ve been talking about it corrected.
I Reject the Idea that the people who seem Hell bent on Targeting anyone who gets in the way of this thing I keep calling the “4IR reset agenda”, are doing it intentionally maliciously. I Reject the ‘genocide’ Narrative from those who Repeatedly claim if we could just ‘arrest the bad guys’, that this conflict would Resolve itself.
Because that is False.
In fact, it’s scapegoating, and calling for Violence against people that very Few appear Willing to try and Understand.
Instead, I come at it from the Angle, with an Open Mind, though it’s been Challenging to say the Least to have my Previous Life Destroyed to Satisfy the Fears of a group of people that seem Unhinged to me, and yet we see the same Dynamical Forces manifesting on the ‘other side’, and it’s been Happening since very early on. People calling for Violence as a response to what these people are doing, instead of trying to Understand WHY they are doing it.
So I Repeatedly Rejected ‘violence’ as any kind of Solution as to what I genuinely Feel is a Totalitarian Violence, of soft power. Because it is.
In Fact it’s the people who have acted in a way that seems like a counter threat to this agenda who have given it Fuel to double and triple its efforts to Control us.
So when I saw all of this undercurrent of antisemitism swell after the attack of October 7th, I was immediately disturbed by what I was Witnessing, and in the Same Way, I saw people from the pro Israel camp react the way the social controller are with their 4IR reset agenda, and called it out. But people were so invested in choosing sides they couldn’t hear me arguing form the middle.
Calling for Peace.
I don’t know.
All I know is that there is a Second way I’ve framed the last almost 4 years now. Yes, it’s the 4IR reset agenda, but there’s an Important, in my Humble opinion, caveat.
It’s Also the Superficiality crisis, which is Real, and Pervasive.
Excellent insights. Thank you!
***The answers to the looming civilization threat is not simple. To do nothing in the face of existential threats would be an act of self-extermination. René Girard himself that he was not a pacifist. His ideas provide us with really powerful tools we can use in our own lives. On a societal level, we can ask ourselves if we are taking part in the scapegoating mechanism as it unfolds, taking out our petty rivalries on the innocent in order to release our tensions and unite with our foes.
“A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.”
Girard… the only choices we have are to join the persecution of the victim, or to stand alone. The only way to end scapegoating, according to Girard, is to stop participating in it, to shine a light on it and expose it. ***
Just as a quick addition to this Middle Easter, now World wide issue, I want to point out that this isn’t a phenomenon that is Exclusive to that conflict.
I’ve debated people for months, years now, about the Nature of the forces that seem to be attacking Humanity.
Since 2020.
I’ve always tried to make Sense of it. I’ve given room to be Proven wrong, to have my opinions and the way I’ve been talking about it corrected.
I Reject the Idea that the people who seem Hell bent on Targeting anyone who gets in the way of this thing I keep calling the “4IR reset agenda”, are doing it intentionally maliciously. I Reject the ‘genocide’ Narrative from those who Repeatedly claim if we could just ‘arrest the bad guys’, that this conflict would Resolve itself.
Because that is False.
In fact, it’s scapegoating, and calling for Violence against people that very Few appear Willing to try and Understand.
Instead, I come at it from the Angle, with an Open Mind, though it’s been Challenging to say the Least to have my Previous Life Destroyed to Satisfy the Fears of a group of people that seem Unhinged to me, and yet we see the same Dynamical Forces manifesting on the ‘other side’, and it’s been Happening since very early on. People calling for Violence as a response to what these people are doing, instead of trying to Understand WHY they are doing it.
So I Repeatedly Rejected ‘violence’ as any kind of Solution as to what I genuinely Feel is a Totalitarian Violence, of soft power. Because it is.
In Fact it’s the people who have acted in a way that seems like a counter threat to this agenda who have given it Fuel to double and triple its efforts to Control us.
So when I saw all of this undercurrent of antisemitism swell after the attack of October 7th, I was immediately disturbed by what I was Witnessing, and in the Same Way, I saw people from the pro Israel camp react the way the social controller are with their 4IR reset agenda, and called it out. But people were so invested in choosing sides they couldn’t hear me arguing form the middle.
Calling for Peace.
I don’t know.
All I know is that there is a Second way I’ve framed the last almost 4 years now. Yes, it’s the 4IR reset agenda, but there’s an Important, in my Humble opinion, caveat.
It’s Also the Superficiality crisis, which is Real, and Pervasive.
And it feels intractable.
I Pray I’m Wrong.
Peace,
Andrew