The Pride Flag Is A Lie.
How to Tell The Truth in a Post-Truth World
“Cultural revolution is complete when the new way of thinking simply becomes the way people think. The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia but cultural self-hate. No coup is more effective than one committed by a people against itself.” - Bruce Pardy
This video is about how to have courage and tell the truth in a world that demands that you live by lies. I am also going to talk about the “regime flag” and what it really means.
“And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal non-participation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!
And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Kate
Always like your posts.
Interestingly, Solzhenitsyn change from communism to Christianity in prison.
His conclusions are biblical, especially condemning idolatry. Including worshipping political ideas.
Herbert butterfield, Oxford professor, wrote against ‘the worship of abstract nouns’.
Nation state worship is recent, after French Revolution.
Note this famous explanation of ‘true’ human life . . .
“Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.’’
Connects future political “kingdom” from god, not humans.
‘’Happy are those who mourn, since they will be comforted.’’
“Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth.’’
Mildness not part of new culture.
“Happy are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness, since they will be filled.’’
Filled from god’s future kingdom.
“Happy are the merciful, since they will be shown mercy.’’
Mercy essential.
“Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.’’
Courage to endure abuse brings future reward.
“Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against you for my sake..”
Lies expected, abuse brings expectation of good.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its strength, how will its saltiness be restored? It is no longer usable for anything except to be thrown outside to be trampled on by men..”
Seems essence of this video. Salt then sometimes impure. Essential for health, difficult to find.
“You are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid when located on a mountain. People light a lamp and set it, not under a basket, but on the lampstand. Likewise, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your fine works and give glory to your Father who is in the heavens.’’
You want listener to shine. This wise man gives foundation, basis, reason to shine.
This worked two thousand years ago. Perhaps the only way to recover the benefits we have almost lost.
Thanks
Clay
Self-deceit / self-hate offers the underlying 'operating system' for manipulation of the mind to filter & mask (as if to control) reality. Hatred of reality is therefore built into the attempt to manipulate it to 'solve our problems' that rise from a sense of self-lack given allegiance and support.
An idealised pre-Separation state carries a residual association with a paradise that was violated by a self-consciousness set in terms of grievance & loss of an identity that had no reference.
I may be missing the gist of your article as I am responding to your email of it ;-)
But the nature of what we might term Separation or Fall - or simply reiterate as pattens of abandonment, rejection, betrayal and rage set in powerlessness, that archetypally underlie our rational masking of conflict as the attempt to put Humpty together again.
In a time or reversal (made obvious) we are approaching our starting place to know it for the first time - or perhaps simply resetting a "New Game" of persisting in the fascination of horror as the addiction to the 'dynamics' of conflict. However I see spirals not closed loops so there is always some growth (consciousness) from experience - even the drive to regain 'unconsciousness' regressively or progressively. There are levels to which the temporal or linear consciousness does not apply; too fast & too spacious for a locked down focus in an 'object lesson' of experience.