The Devil Does His Best Work In The Light Of Day
You Don't Have To Be A Pious Religious Fanatic To Call Out Evil And Corruption.
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It’s completely ironic, isn’t it?
After all the years of being cleverly, subconsciously programmed, most people think of the arrival of evil as something that will occur in the dark of night, announcing its arrival with a dramatic, incendiary flash, brought about by high occult priests working overtime in a fevered frenzy to summon nefarious presences through incantations or magick rituals.
Six months into watching the horror of genocide in Gaza unfold, and four or so impossibly long years of watching the American empire, hell-bent on using the life energy of its unwilling constituents fighting the world, imploding from the inside out, It should be obvious that evil is far more clever than that.
You don’t have to be a follower of the fundamentalist precepts of the dubious, misguided teachings of John Hagee, aligned with “God’s will” to recognize, fundamentally, what is wrong.
What is wrong is the collective impulse propelling us blindly toward human destruction, and the methodical destruction of the natural world that sustains human life. The deception that whispers that the natural life cycle of birth, youth, middle age, old age, and death are outmoded, antique ideas.
What is wrong is the impulse to normalize a perverted, unnatural, purely material worldview and existence that must be sustained at any cost. A worldview that legitimizes and prioritizes power, money, profit, war, inequality, and social injustice all through the most subtle deception. A worldview that whispers that our ultimate fate, the true meaning of human evolution, resides in merging with AI and machines to become immortal superbeings.
The Ahrimanic worldview, briefly summed up:
“In the present epoch of world development it is the Ahrimanic forces which are prevalent. For the sake of his evolution man had to acquire knowledge of earthly matters, but in so far as the Earth is material, this is Ahriman’s realm. We cannot avoid it but the path is beset with temptations.
Ahriman would persuade man that the material world is the only world, but there is no divine element at all, that man can create a worldly paradise. We observe the result of his persuasive efforts in that spiritual life is dominated by economics and politics. It is due to his influence that the mechanistic concept of the universe has been adopted and the idea that the welfare of humanity depends only on material and economic well-being. This has spread to education when only what is materially useful is advocated as subject matter.
Whatever the merits of certain inventions, they show the face of Ahriman. Under such headings one could consider all sorts of mechanisms but in particular such appliances as television, radio, cinema and the thousand and one things dependent on electricity. It is by no means a condemnation of their use if one points to negative aspects. One effect is that they encourage passivity; they dull the consciousness so that the will is weakened and the ego retreats, making way for outside influences to insinuate themselves. One might rightly ask whether there is a connection here with mass hysteria. If the ego is not awake there can arise the phenomenon of obsession and one has only to look at recent events both in Europe and elsewhere to pose the question as to whether demonic beings have not taken possession of certain personalities.
Ahriman is known as the father of lies. But lies and deceit do not always appear in their own colours. In fact they are most effective when they appear in the guise of truth and in modern times we can find plenty of examples. For instance, knowledge that is based only on material concepts is only half true. The fact that it is considered the whole truth is deceit. The facts may be true in themselves, yet in the greater context they are false. It is an illusion to think that matter is the sole reality. It is a serious error to think that if one understands one aspect of the world to the exclusion of others one has the whole truth.
Untruth can appear in various forms. What might be considered a trivial example is in the writing of references where only the positive is stated — admittedly a dilemma for the writer — but untruth nonetheless. As for the statements by politicians…”
We sit passively with our consciousness dulled by too much information, social media, corporate media, and endless “doom scrolling”, yet, we seem particularly numb to the complete corruption of our political sphere, exhibited in the ludicrous clown show of divisive politics, and the celebrification, moral projection, and endorsements of and on the worst America have to currently offer.
It’s dragging us, as we expend energy arguing against ourselves, numb and dazed, into a whirlpool we will inevitably drown in. Thus, we have celebrities telling us that anti-Zionism conflates with anti-Semitism, there is no genocide in Gaza, and Joe Biden is a “decent” man in the worst examples of deliberate ignorance and moral projection.
History is, again, seemingly repeating itself, and this is just a personal observation, but I believe the purpose of history is not to study it to cram useless factoids, dates, places, and names into the mental sphere, but to give us actionable examples so we don’t succumb, as individuals and as a civilization, to making the same destructive choices over and over.
In the relatively small slice of history I have observed in my lifetime, I recognize the current demonization of students (and some tenured professors) at Columbia University, by both politicians and the corporate media, as a moment of Deja Vu. Columbia students in 1968 were also compelled by a noble human impulse to shut down the campus in protest of the atrocities in Vietnam. It’s nothing less than summoning our better nature to preserve life, and not succumb to murderous rampage.
That “better nature” is most certainly not exhibited in the personas of AIPAC-influenced legislators like Florida Republican Representative Brian Mast, who has enough time to post, via his account on X, a nonstop barrage of low-level insults cast with a wide net. The well-intentioned students, according to Mast, are cowardly, brainwashed, and don’t love America, because if they did, they would love Israel with the same fanatical intensity he does.
Mast’s non-stop barrage of social media posts is almost exclusively devoted to an obsession with Israel as a topic, and giving them money and armaments as quickly as possible. Mast is such a die-hard over-the-top Israeli fanatic, as is his colleague Rick Scott, that Mast donned his Israeli IDF uniform to wear in the halls of Congress, presumably to demonstrate his fealty.
Columbia Students Protest in 1968 and In 2024.
The Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Zionist/ Anti-Genocide movement of 2024 is a direct repeat of History and another uncanny parallel is that, in the long hot Summer of 1968, The Democrats held their convention, a ludicrous, largely ceremonial process of formal nomination for their choice of Presidential candidate in Chicago. They return to Chicago in 2024, again, under uncannily similar circumstances. The 1968 Democratic National Convention was a riotous, violent, ugly affair, where the thuggish Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daly, made sure, even under the glare of cameras, that protestors and outlier journalists were to be made examples of. The country was still reeling in shock from the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
In the case of Dr. King, the Devil’s work was done in broad daylight again.
One thing seems to be apparent, no matter which side of the political “divide” you may align yourself with, bipartisan corruption is being flaunted. Politicians, from the President to the Speaker of the House, are openly trading millions in campaign donations in exchange for fealty to the State Of Israel, arming and financing them with billions of dollars and 2,000-pound bombs.
In years past this might not have been evident, but thanks to the availability of information via the internet and social media, we can see the corruption documented in real-time.
The Biden administration and the corrupt bipartisan members of Congress deliver the message Israel wants them to deliver: that support for Israel’s campaign of unbridled genocide and expanded regional war has the unfailing and “ironclad” support of the United States, which, effectively, means that billions in current and future wealth, the life energy of the US taxpayer, will be spent without their consent.
This is against the backdrop of US politicians also promising further billions to fuel the corrupt proxy war in Ukraine and Taiwan, some screaming, in the case of Senator Lindsey Graham, for Israel to “finish the job
Democracy was always an illusion, and now the devil is flaunting it in broad daylight with no apologies.
The good news in all of this is that the deceptive illusions that have formed the bizarre narrative of the world since 2020 are giving way to an awakening consciousness, one that is ready to take on the bizarre narratives currently espoused by bought and paid-for politicians, actors, musicians, and entertainers.
The false, deceptive narratives espoused by a compliant media, that were driven by fear and oppression are now being made evident.
All we have to do now is have the courage to call evil out in the daylight for what it is and back up these people, whatever their age, social status, or occupation who dare to face oppression directly.
Embracing our humanity and preserving life was never more urgent.