Francis Berger's Blog, page 84
November 7, 2021
A Few Random Thoughts Concerning the Demonic Pressure of the Lockout
About a year ago, I speculated that the totalitarian technocrats would adjust their damnation tactics by transitioning away from their lockdown tactics and pursuing a strategy I referred to at the time as the "The Great Lockout":
If the Great Lockdown served to suspend society, the Great Lockout will become the proposed lifting of this suspension. Put another way, lockdowns were meant to push people out and away from a frozen society; lockouts will seek to thaw society and pull people back in. But this pull factor will come with conditions, and it is through these conditions that the Establishment will not only maintain its iron grip of control, but increase it.
At the present time it appears magical medical juice will be the linchpin that keeps the totalitarian wheel spinning. Yes, the world can be your oyster again, but only if you take the magical medical juice and adhere to all the complex and intrusive bureaucratic and surveillance mechanisms installed to support it. Do that you, and the Establishment will ensure you are "locked into" the System.
Don't want the magical medical juice? No problem, but refusal will guarantee you are "locked out" of the system. You can then proceed to live the isolated and solitary life of a clam.
Unfortunately, in the eleven months since I recorded my original speculations on the topic, the lockout policy has been implemented or is in the process of being implemented all over the world. And now it even has reached me.
Though nothing has been made official yet, it very much appears that both of my places of employment are quickly shifting toward no peck-no job lockout policies, which means I stand to lose both of my current positions if I refuse to comply with the peck.
Since I anticipated such developments well in advance, I was not blindsided by the prospect of being effectively locked out of both of my jobs. And since I understand that these lockout tactics are driven by the global totalitarian diktat of "none are safe until all are safe", under the guise of which all sorts of manipulation has been and will be employed to get people into "thinking, feeling, and ultimately doing" the peck, I have had plenty of time to mentally and spiritually prepare for the possibility of losing my current jobs. All of this has made it much easier to face the challenges confronting me.
At the same time, I would be dishonest if I said that these challenges were easy.
One thing that has helped me maintain perspective is my understanding that most of what we have experienced over the past nineteen months or so can be categorized under what I refer to as "demonic pressure."
Demonic pressure relies primarily on coercion, manipulation, and exploitation - the unholy trinity of sin and damnation. Coercion could be defined as having no choice or no acceptable choice. Manipulation involves steering, persuading, and influencing choice, while exploitation centers around making use of people's vulnerabilities to achieve certain demonic aims and objectives. The tactics driving the lockout employ all three segments of the unholy trinity.
Let's start with coercion. Most people in the world have bills to play and mouths to feed, which means they don't really have a choice or, at the very least, they don't really have an acceptable choice when they are confronted with the "peck or job" ultimatum. Now many would say such people should never had put themselves in situations in which they could be left choice-less. Although I am apt to agree in a general sense, I find judgments like that to be flippant and besides the point, mostly because they deflect from the pure malevolence of the situation itself.
Demonic manipulations tend to target emotions, reason, and values through outright deception, incessant pressuring, or the utilization of character weaknesses and emotional susceptibility. These can take many forms, but in lockout tactics they tend to concentrate around notions of fear - how will I live if I lose my job/career?; prudence - well, I have to keep working because I need to survive; and pride - I worked too hard and too long to give this up now over something like the peck.
Once again, I don't think being overly critical of those who give into such manipulations addresses any greater issue provided that those who do succumb to these manipulations understand that they have in fact been demonically-manipulated, acknowledge the reason(s) why, and repent the fact. Those who succumb to the manipulation but are utterly oblivious to or in willful denial of the demonic powers behind the pressure are another matter entirely.
Lastly, exploitation is the most insidious form of demonic pressure when it comes to the lockout because it employs an individual's vulnerabilities to achieve demonic ends. An arrogant and egotistical university professor or middle manager who identifies so deeply with his or her station in life that he or she finds it unthinkable to even consider giving up a career over something like the peck or, worse, convinces himself or herself that the peck is a good thing, is a prime target for demonic exploitation.
What makes the unholy trinity of coercion, manipulation, and exploitation interesting in connection to the lockout is that all three concepts relate directly to the value of freedom; more specifically, spiritual freedom. At the most basic level, freedom can be regarded as the independence of one's choices from external factors and the will of others. At the spiritual level, freedom is the alignment of one's independent choices with the independent choices of God.
The effects of demonic pressure are certainly tangible when it comes to the non-independent choices or "dependent" choices people are making when faced with lockout tactics, but the true goal of this demonic pressure is spiritual in nature - meaning that the spiritual implications of the choices themselves both imbue and supersede all material considerations and ramifications.
Those who succumb to the demonic pressure of the lockout should sincerely acknowledge their circumstances and repent knowing full well that such acknowledgement and repentance will keep them on the side of God and Creation regardless of the "choices" they made. In this sense, they may have lost the battle of independence of choice from external factors and the will of others, but they have not lost the war as long as their independent spiritual choices align with God and Creation.
Those who are able to resist the material implications of the lockout may still have some skin in the game when it comes to independent choice against external factors and the will of others, but they must ensure their spiritual choices remain aligned with God. A "free" individual who successfully resists the material pressure exuded by demons but loses his or her alignment with God in the process is in a far worse position than an individual who succumbs to material demonic pressure but keeps their spiritual orientation and alignment intact.
As of now, I remain among those who are able to resist on both fronts. The unholy trinity has no material sway over me in this regard. I can walk away from both of my jobs secure and comfortable in the knowledge that I can resist the material pressure for a while. Having said that, I know full well that employment is not the only material weapon the demons can wield in their lockout campaign.
Regardless of what may or may not come, the only thing that matters to me at this point is that I remain on the side of God and Creation.
In the meantime, the adventure continues. And what an adventure it is turning out to be!
If the Great Lockdown served to suspend society, the Great Lockout will become the proposed lifting of this suspension. Put another way, lockdowns were meant to push people out and away from a frozen society; lockouts will seek to thaw society and pull people back in. But this pull factor will come with conditions, and it is through these conditions that the Establishment will not only maintain its iron grip of control, but increase it.
At the present time it appears magical medical juice will be the linchpin that keeps the totalitarian wheel spinning. Yes, the world can be your oyster again, but only if you take the magical medical juice and adhere to all the complex and intrusive bureaucratic and surveillance mechanisms installed to support it. Do that you, and the Establishment will ensure you are "locked into" the System.
Don't want the magical medical juice? No problem, but refusal will guarantee you are "locked out" of the system. You can then proceed to live the isolated and solitary life of a clam.
Unfortunately, in the eleven months since I recorded my original speculations on the topic, the lockout policy has been implemented or is in the process of being implemented all over the world. And now it even has reached me.
Though nothing has been made official yet, it very much appears that both of my places of employment are quickly shifting toward no peck-no job lockout policies, which means I stand to lose both of my current positions if I refuse to comply with the peck.
Since I anticipated such developments well in advance, I was not blindsided by the prospect of being effectively locked out of both of my jobs. And since I understand that these lockout tactics are driven by the global totalitarian diktat of "none are safe until all are safe", under the guise of which all sorts of manipulation has been and will be employed to get people into "thinking, feeling, and ultimately doing" the peck, I have had plenty of time to mentally and spiritually prepare for the possibility of losing my current jobs. All of this has made it much easier to face the challenges confronting me.
At the same time, I would be dishonest if I said that these challenges were easy.
One thing that has helped me maintain perspective is my understanding that most of what we have experienced over the past nineteen months or so can be categorized under what I refer to as "demonic pressure."
Demonic pressure relies primarily on coercion, manipulation, and exploitation - the unholy trinity of sin and damnation. Coercion could be defined as having no choice or no acceptable choice. Manipulation involves steering, persuading, and influencing choice, while exploitation centers around making use of people's vulnerabilities to achieve certain demonic aims and objectives. The tactics driving the lockout employ all three segments of the unholy trinity.
Let's start with coercion. Most people in the world have bills to play and mouths to feed, which means they don't really have a choice or, at the very least, they don't really have an acceptable choice when they are confronted with the "peck or job" ultimatum. Now many would say such people should never had put themselves in situations in which they could be left choice-less. Although I am apt to agree in a general sense, I find judgments like that to be flippant and besides the point, mostly because they deflect from the pure malevolence of the situation itself.
Demonic manipulations tend to target emotions, reason, and values through outright deception, incessant pressuring, or the utilization of character weaknesses and emotional susceptibility. These can take many forms, but in lockout tactics they tend to concentrate around notions of fear - how will I live if I lose my job/career?; prudence - well, I have to keep working because I need to survive; and pride - I worked too hard and too long to give this up now over something like the peck.
Once again, I don't think being overly critical of those who give into such manipulations addresses any greater issue provided that those who do succumb to these manipulations understand that they have in fact been demonically-manipulated, acknowledge the reason(s) why, and repent the fact. Those who succumb to the manipulation but are utterly oblivious to or in willful denial of the demonic powers behind the pressure are another matter entirely.
Lastly, exploitation is the most insidious form of demonic pressure when it comes to the lockout because it employs an individual's vulnerabilities to achieve demonic ends. An arrogant and egotistical university professor or middle manager who identifies so deeply with his or her station in life that he or she finds it unthinkable to even consider giving up a career over something like the peck or, worse, convinces himself or herself that the peck is a good thing, is a prime target for demonic exploitation.
What makes the unholy trinity of coercion, manipulation, and exploitation interesting in connection to the lockout is that all three concepts relate directly to the value of freedom; more specifically, spiritual freedom. At the most basic level, freedom can be regarded as the independence of one's choices from external factors and the will of others. At the spiritual level, freedom is the alignment of one's independent choices with the independent choices of God.
The effects of demonic pressure are certainly tangible when it comes to the non-independent choices or "dependent" choices people are making when faced with lockout tactics, but the true goal of this demonic pressure is spiritual in nature - meaning that the spiritual implications of the choices themselves both imbue and supersede all material considerations and ramifications.
Those who succumb to the demonic pressure of the lockout should sincerely acknowledge their circumstances and repent knowing full well that such acknowledgement and repentance will keep them on the side of God and Creation regardless of the "choices" they made. In this sense, they may have lost the battle of independence of choice from external factors and the will of others, but they have not lost the war as long as their independent spiritual choices align with God and Creation.
Those who are able to resist the material implications of the lockout may still have some skin in the game when it comes to independent choice against external factors and the will of others, but they must ensure their spiritual choices remain aligned with God. A "free" individual who successfully resists the material pressure exuded by demons but loses his or her alignment with God in the process is in a far worse position than an individual who succumbs to material demonic pressure but keeps their spiritual orientation and alignment intact.
As of now, I remain among those who are able to resist on both fronts. The unholy trinity has no material sway over me in this regard. I can walk away from both of my jobs secure and comfortable in the knowledge that I can resist the material pressure for a while. Having said that, I know full well that employment is not the only material weapon the demons can wield in their lockout campaign.
Regardless of what may or may not come, the only thing that matters to me at this point is that I remain on the side of God and Creation.
In the meantime, the adventure continues. And what an adventure it is turning out to be!
November 4, 2021
Queen of the Night Aria Reaction
Or, "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" reaction. Or, as the "reactors" below put it, "The Queen of the Night Singing the Magic Flute."
Take your pick.
Thankfully, at least music still possesses the power to move the soul.
Those expressions. Priceless.
Take your pick.
Thankfully, at least music still possesses the power to move the soul.
Those expressions. Priceless.
November 2, 2021
Revisiting 2112 in 2021
Rush's 2112 was staple listening for me when I was a teenager. Aside from being enamored by the music, I also enjoyed that the 2112 took me on an adventure - in this case, an intergalactic catastrophe followed by a peaceful yet dystopian planet ruled by the authoritarian iron fists of the priests from the Temples of Syrinx, who proclaim to supply "all the gifts of life" to those over whom they rule.
I hadn't listened to the 2112 in well over two decades, but the other day I experienced a sudden motivation to revisit Rush's classic epic. Though the story it tells was not new, I experienced it from an entirely different perspective - partly because of age, but mostly because of the events and circumstances we have been living through since 2020.
Rumor has it the band wrote 2112 in protest of their dealings with authoritarian record executives. Without that knowledge, 2112 is an allegorical space odyssey set against the evils of authoritarianism, communism, and totalitarianism. Influenced primarily by libertarian beliefs espoused by writers like Ayn Rand, the work features no explicit mention of spirituality (other than the priests of Syrinx who, with their red pentagram banners, are little more than galactic Grand Inquisitors).
Though the primacy of the spiritual is not explicitly stated (except for line "The meek shall inherit the earth"; Psalm 37:11), the work implies the importance of human learning, growing, and creativity, all of which the Temples of Syrinx expressly forbid (as the lyrics from The Temples of Syrinx segment of 2112 make clear):
We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all, all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hollowed halls
We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within these walls
Look around this world we made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the brotherhood of man
What a nice contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the red star proudly high in hand
Re-listening to this arrangement of connected songs after twenty years was a bittersweet experience. On the one hand, I still enjoy the music and the adventure. On the other hand, I recognize and am left cold by the shallow "solution" to the problem of enslavement, communism, and totalitarianism.
I realize now that 2112 and and other similar works of art represent a sort of high point in the belief of human autonomous consciousness in relation to freedom, meaning, and purpose. Yes, rediscovery, learning, and creativity can all potentially lead back to freedom, meaning, and purpose, but if these are not anchored in God and Creation they will amount to nothing more than an interlude between periods of enslavement.
All the same, I still consider it an enjoyable and impressive piece of music (yes, the band was a trio!), mostly because it reminds me of a time when popular or rock music still took you on journeys and adventures. The clip below includes some illustrations that help tell the story. If you've never gone on the 2112 adventure, have twenty minutes to spare, and aren't totally averse to rock music from the 1970s, I humbly invite you to give it a whirl.
I hadn't listened to the 2112 in well over two decades, but the other day I experienced a sudden motivation to revisit Rush's classic epic. Though the story it tells was not new, I experienced it from an entirely different perspective - partly because of age, but mostly because of the events and circumstances we have been living through since 2020.
Rumor has it the band wrote 2112 in protest of their dealings with authoritarian record executives. Without that knowledge, 2112 is an allegorical space odyssey set against the evils of authoritarianism, communism, and totalitarianism. Influenced primarily by libertarian beliefs espoused by writers like Ayn Rand, the work features no explicit mention of spirituality (other than the priests of Syrinx who, with their red pentagram banners, are little more than galactic Grand Inquisitors).
Though the primacy of the spiritual is not explicitly stated (except for line "The meek shall inherit the earth"; Psalm 37:11), the work implies the importance of human learning, growing, and creativity, all of which the Temples of Syrinx expressly forbid (as the lyrics from The Temples of Syrinx segment of 2112 make clear):
We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all, all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hollowed halls
We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within these walls
Look around this world we made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the brotherhood of man
What a nice contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the red star proudly high in hand
Re-listening to this arrangement of connected songs after twenty years was a bittersweet experience. On the one hand, I still enjoy the music and the adventure. On the other hand, I recognize and am left cold by the shallow "solution" to the problem of enslavement, communism, and totalitarianism.
I realize now that 2112 and and other similar works of art represent a sort of high point in the belief of human autonomous consciousness in relation to freedom, meaning, and purpose. Yes, rediscovery, learning, and creativity can all potentially lead back to freedom, meaning, and purpose, but if these are not anchored in God and Creation they will amount to nothing more than an interlude between periods of enslavement.
All the same, I still consider it an enjoyable and impressive piece of music (yes, the band was a trio!), mostly because it reminds me of a time when popular or rock music still took you on journeys and adventures. The clip below includes some illustrations that help tell the story. If you've never gone on the 2112 adventure, have twenty minutes to spare, and aren't totally averse to rock music from the 1970s, I humbly invite you to give it a whirl.
October 31, 2021
The Great Narrative; Or, Totalitarian Story Time
In ten days, the Davos Crew and their demonic band of Great Resetters are scheduled to meet in Dubai to launch something called the "The Great Narrative" (I'm not going to link it; look it up yourself if interested):
The Great Narrative Meeting is a linchpin of the Great Narrative initiative, a collaborative effort of the world’s leading thinkers to fashion longer-term perspectives and co-create a narrative that can help guide the creation of a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable vision for our collective future.
Rather than focus on the details of the Great Narrative itself - all of which, at this point, amounts to little more than a blatantly obvious threading together of the Big Lies and Litmus Test Issues the Davos Crew et al. have been promulgating incessantly since the successful 2020 global coup - I thought it might be prudent to briefly examine the very concept of the metanarrative as well why the demonic totalitarians have determinedly set their sights on establishing one.
In essence, a metanarrative is an all-encompassing story that provides all the answers to life, the universe, and everything - including meaning and purpose. A metanarrative strives to offer a transcendent, universal truth that can connect and explain seemingly disparate events and phenomena into a totalizing comprehensive schema that orders and explains all knowledge and experience and is applicable to everyone at all times, including the past, present, and future. It is knowledge from "beyond" told in a way that can be understood by all.
Metanarratives also aim to incorporate and subordinate all "little stories" into the "big story", a process that legitimizes the big story while simultaneously de-legitimizing any little story that does not fit into the big story schema.
At their core, all metanarratives are totalitarian in nature. Above all else, the "big story" that explains all other stories functions to legitimize the power and authority of people who craft and control the "big story."
To make the "big story" compelling, metanarratives attempt to cement their legitimacy via some anticipated but as of yet unrealized goal toward which society must orient itself.
Some well-known metanarratives include the Enlightenment and universal reason, Marxism, progressivism, and various religious doctrines - and yes, this includes Christianity. The term became part of academic discourse in the late 1970s courtesy of post-modern theorist Jean-Jacques Lyotard who, typically enough, hastily threw together the theory at the behest of some Quebec grant obligation (if memory serves me correctly). Lyotard himself was wary of the totalizing nature of metanarratives, declared them to be over, and heralded an era in which universal grand narratives would eventually give way to a mosaic of small, local narratives.
Well, that certainly didn't pan out, did it?
For me, metanarratives, or grand narratives boil down to hearts and minds, and how those hearts and minds think about and understand themselves, others, and the world. Put another way, for me metanarratives are a matter of consciousness, and I believe that all past metanarratives and the ungodly one the Davos Crew strive to implement now reveal a great deal about the development of Western and Christian consciousness.
The following is an extremely simplistic sketch of one possible interpretation the evolution of grand narratives set against religious consciousnesses since Christ:The grand narrative of law and obedience in the Old TestamentJesus's time on Earth and the first few decades after His death and resurrection breaks this metanarrative and offers an alternative, which I will refer to here as Truth and Reality. With the establishment of Christian culture, consciousness slips away from a pure understanding of Truth and Reality and reverts back to some semblance of Old Testament law.The religious consciousness of Old Testament law is eventually abandoned for the consciousness of autonomous man, in which man is overvalued at the expense of God being undervalued. This movement is at first God-aligned, eventually non-aligned. Non-God aligned autonomous consciousness gives birth to un-religious and, eventually, anti-religious metanarratives that bring man to the height of his powers, but also alienate him from God. As man's misguided sense of freedom, sovereignty, and independence continue to solidify, he oscillates between individual alienation and totalitarian metanarratives, culminating in destructive ideological metanarratives like Marxism. Man appears to recognize the limits and "wrongness" of metanarratives, but is so far removed from Reality and the Divine that he can no longer find his way back to reality.Unable to maintain an atomized, alienated state of incoherent consciousness, man willingly reverts back to Old Testament law consciousness, only this time without any obedience to the Divine or Reality. The onset of despiritualized consciousness.
When I consider what aspirations Davos et al. have in mind concerning their Great Narrative, I come to the realization that it is a final push toward the permanent despiritualization of human consciousness.
Do I believe such a thing is possible?
No. I do not believe God would allow such a development to occur within Creation. At the same time, I believe God's powers are somewhat limited in this capacity. The bulk of the pushback against despiritualized consciousness must emanate from us.
And what might this entail? Contrary to what most traditionally-minded Christians believe, it cannot involve a total reversion back to more conventional forms of Christianity because those forms of Christianity are firmly locked into a metanarrative structure.
I believe Lyotard was correct when he declared the age of the metanarrative to be over. At the very least, it should have been in theory. Being of a material mindset himself, Lyotard's vision of local, micronarratives in place of metanarratives point in the right direction, but lack the "stuff" necessary to make the arrangement work because like the metanarratives they work against, the micronarratives have no real basis in Truth and Reality.
I get the sense that story time - be it big or small - should be over. Our task now is not to tell stories, be they individual, relativistic micronarratives or all-encompassing metanarratives. Our task now is to reconnect to Truth and Reality, and the way we do this is by realizing that we are all mirco-Truths and micro-Realities, but only so far as we as these micro-Truths and micro-Realities are aligned with Truth and Reality.
In my mind, this is the antithesis to the totalizing power of metanarrative. Unlike the grand narrative, which aims to incorporate and subordinate, Truth and Reality aim to love and elevate. Truth and Reality does not seek to assimilate, become one with, or rule over the micro-Truths and micro-Realities, but invites them to participate in the ongoing Creation that is Truth and Reality.
Without this recognition, without this transformation in consciousness, the Divine within man will dim even further, and he will plow headlong into the whatever incoherent metanarrative is offered to him as reality.
The Davos crew senses this. Whether their Great Narrative Initiative stems from hubristic confidence in their accomplishments thus far or from latent anxiety at the unravelling of their own "micronarratives" is a moot point.
What is not moot is the underlying motive of their Great Narrative Initiative. Though the "meta" in narrative means "beyond", "above", or "transcendent", it also means "death", as the famed owner of a huge social media company recently discovered when he re-branded his platform with the name "Meta."
In this light, the Great Narrative Initiative is a death story. It is primarily a story of spiritual death, but not insignificantly, it is also rapidly becoming a story of physical death.
Meta reality is not Reality. It really is that simple.
Anyone who willingly and actively adheres to the totalitarians' latest metanarrative "death story" will certainly suffer spiritual death. Moreover, physical death will likely occur much sooner than they could have possibly imagined.
On a more optimistic note, the demonic Davos Great Narrative may become the catalyst that sparks the micro-Truth, micro-Reality transformation in many.
The Great Narrative Meeting is a linchpin of the Great Narrative initiative, a collaborative effort of the world’s leading thinkers to fashion longer-term perspectives and co-create a narrative that can help guide the creation of a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable vision for our collective future.
Rather than focus on the details of the Great Narrative itself - all of which, at this point, amounts to little more than a blatantly obvious threading together of the Big Lies and Litmus Test Issues the Davos Crew et al. have been promulgating incessantly since the successful 2020 global coup - I thought it might be prudent to briefly examine the very concept of the metanarrative as well why the demonic totalitarians have determinedly set their sights on establishing one.
In essence, a metanarrative is an all-encompassing story that provides all the answers to life, the universe, and everything - including meaning and purpose. A metanarrative strives to offer a transcendent, universal truth that can connect and explain seemingly disparate events and phenomena into a totalizing comprehensive schema that orders and explains all knowledge and experience and is applicable to everyone at all times, including the past, present, and future. It is knowledge from "beyond" told in a way that can be understood by all.
Metanarratives also aim to incorporate and subordinate all "little stories" into the "big story", a process that legitimizes the big story while simultaneously de-legitimizing any little story that does not fit into the big story schema.
At their core, all metanarratives are totalitarian in nature. Above all else, the "big story" that explains all other stories functions to legitimize the power and authority of people who craft and control the "big story."
To make the "big story" compelling, metanarratives attempt to cement their legitimacy via some anticipated but as of yet unrealized goal toward which society must orient itself.
Some well-known metanarratives include the Enlightenment and universal reason, Marxism, progressivism, and various religious doctrines - and yes, this includes Christianity. The term became part of academic discourse in the late 1970s courtesy of post-modern theorist Jean-Jacques Lyotard who, typically enough, hastily threw together the theory at the behest of some Quebec grant obligation (if memory serves me correctly). Lyotard himself was wary of the totalizing nature of metanarratives, declared them to be over, and heralded an era in which universal grand narratives would eventually give way to a mosaic of small, local narratives.
Well, that certainly didn't pan out, did it?
For me, metanarratives, or grand narratives boil down to hearts and minds, and how those hearts and minds think about and understand themselves, others, and the world. Put another way, for me metanarratives are a matter of consciousness, and I believe that all past metanarratives and the ungodly one the Davos Crew strive to implement now reveal a great deal about the development of Western and Christian consciousness.
The following is an extremely simplistic sketch of one possible interpretation the evolution of grand narratives set against religious consciousnesses since Christ:The grand narrative of law and obedience in the Old TestamentJesus's time on Earth and the first few decades after His death and resurrection breaks this metanarrative and offers an alternative, which I will refer to here as Truth and Reality. With the establishment of Christian culture, consciousness slips away from a pure understanding of Truth and Reality and reverts back to some semblance of Old Testament law.The religious consciousness of Old Testament law is eventually abandoned for the consciousness of autonomous man, in which man is overvalued at the expense of God being undervalued. This movement is at first God-aligned, eventually non-aligned. Non-God aligned autonomous consciousness gives birth to un-religious and, eventually, anti-religious metanarratives that bring man to the height of his powers, but also alienate him from God. As man's misguided sense of freedom, sovereignty, and independence continue to solidify, he oscillates between individual alienation and totalitarian metanarratives, culminating in destructive ideological metanarratives like Marxism. Man appears to recognize the limits and "wrongness" of metanarratives, but is so far removed from Reality and the Divine that he can no longer find his way back to reality.Unable to maintain an atomized, alienated state of incoherent consciousness, man willingly reverts back to Old Testament law consciousness, only this time without any obedience to the Divine or Reality. The onset of despiritualized consciousness.
When I consider what aspirations Davos et al. have in mind concerning their Great Narrative, I come to the realization that it is a final push toward the permanent despiritualization of human consciousness.
Do I believe such a thing is possible?
No. I do not believe God would allow such a development to occur within Creation. At the same time, I believe God's powers are somewhat limited in this capacity. The bulk of the pushback against despiritualized consciousness must emanate from us.
And what might this entail? Contrary to what most traditionally-minded Christians believe, it cannot involve a total reversion back to more conventional forms of Christianity because those forms of Christianity are firmly locked into a metanarrative structure.
I believe Lyotard was correct when he declared the age of the metanarrative to be over. At the very least, it should have been in theory. Being of a material mindset himself, Lyotard's vision of local, micronarratives in place of metanarratives point in the right direction, but lack the "stuff" necessary to make the arrangement work because like the metanarratives they work against, the micronarratives have no real basis in Truth and Reality.
I get the sense that story time - be it big or small - should be over. Our task now is not to tell stories, be they individual, relativistic micronarratives or all-encompassing metanarratives. Our task now is to reconnect to Truth and Reality, and the way we do this is by realizing that we are all mirco-Truths and micro-Realities, but only so far as we as these micro-Truths and micro-Realities are aligned with Truth and Reality.
In my mind, this is the antithesis to the totalizing power of metanarrative. Unlike the grand narrative, which aims to incorporate and subordinate, Truth and Reality aim to love and elevate. Truth and Reality does not seek to assimilate, become one with, or rule over the micro-Truths and micro-Realities, but invites them to participate in the ongoing Creation that is Truth and Reality.
Without this recognition, without this transformation in consciousness, the Divine within man will dim even further, and he will plow headlong into the whatever incoherent metanarrative is offered to him as reality.
The Davos crew senses this. Whether their Great Narrative Initiative stems from hubristic confidence in their accomplishments thus far or from latent anxiety at the unravelling of their own "micronarratives" is a moot point.
What is not moot is the underlying motive of their Great Narrative Initiative. Though the "meta" in narrative means "beyond", "above", or "transcendent", it also means "death", as the famed owner of a huge social media company recently discovered when he re-branded his platform with the name "Meta."
In this light, the Great Narrative Initiative is a death story. It is primarily a story of spiritual death, but not insignificantly, it is also rapidly becoming a story of physical death.
Meta reality is not Reality. It really is that simple.
Anyone who willingly and actively adheres to the totalitarians' latest metanarrative "death story" will certainly suffer spiritual death. Moreover, physical death will likely occur much sooner than they could have possibly imagined.
On a more optimistic note, the demonic Davos Great Narrative may become the catalyst that sparks the micro-Truth, micro-Reality transformation in many.
October 29, 2021
The Sheer Absurdity of the James Bond Franchise After the 2020 Global Coup
James Bond films have always landed on the side of the ridiculous, but the latest in the franchise - completed after the 2020 global totalitarian coup - is simply absurd.
No, I haven't seen the film; and no, by absurd I am not referring to the overall overall characteristics and cliches of the franchise: the supernatural action sequences, imagination-defying tech gadgets, or the scheming super-villains who always aim to dispose of the captured 007 via some elaborate and complex execution method - usually involving sharks, fire, whirling saw blades, rising water levels, or laser beams - that inevitably provides Bond with the time, space, and opportunity needed to escape.
By absurd I mean the basic, underlying premise of the whole James Bond franchise itself - that of a "good" secret agent who works on behalf of a "good" system to foil evil, psychopathic geniuses and organizations that attempt to either take over the world or outright destroy it.
The James Bond franchise has always been pure fiction, and it has never aspired to be more than mere entertainment. Nevertheless, the global 2020 coup has rendered absurd the entire premise upon which the franchise is built for the simple reason that the evil, psychopathic organizations have taken over the world and are now in the process of destroying it.
To make matters worse, the forces to which the James Bond character belongs have been actively complicit in the Satanic take over and destroy process. Thus, the premise of any post-2020 James Bond film that follows the standard 007 franchise "good versus evil" formula is immediately incoherent and utterly absurd.
More than that, it intentionally insults and humiliates. To put it in the proper perspective, a post 2020 James Bond film would be akin to the Soviets having produced films featuring anti-Bolshevist secret agents fighting to save the world from the horrors of communism and then subsequently screening these films to gulag inmates serving life sentences during the height of Stalinist tyranny.
To save the James Bond franchise from sinking further into absurdity, I humbly propose that future, post-2020 007 films should feature more realistic and "actual" conflicts between and "good and evil". Something along the lines of Bond thwarting a massive global white supremacist movement bent on instituting worldwide white supremacy. Or, 007 infiltrating the dreaded cult of the unpecked that continues to scourge with world with life-threatening pestilence.
Even better, how about one featuring the skilled and handsome member of Her Majesty's Secret Service ruthlessly hunting down malicious Christian bloggers who are forever working to motivate people to choose the side of God and Creation?
No, I haven't seen the film; and no, by absurd I am not referring to the overall overall characteristics and cliches of the franchise: the supernatural action sequences, imagination-defying tech gadgets, or the scheming super-villains who always aim to dispose of the captured 007 via some elaborate and complex execution method - usually involving sharks, fire, whirling saw blades, rising water levels, or laser beams - that inevitably provides Bond with the time, space, and opportunity needed to escape.
By absurd I mean the basic, underlying premise of the whole James Bond franchise itself - that of a "good" secret agent who works on behalf of a "good" system to foil evil, psychopathic geniuses and organizations that attempt to either take over the world or outright destroy it.
The James Bond franchise has always been pure fiction, and it has never aspired to be more than mere entertainment. Nevertheless, the global 2020 coup has rendered absurd the entire premise upon which the franchise is built for the simple reason that the evil, psychopathic organizations have taken over the world and are now in the process of destroying it.
To make matters worse, the forces to which the James Bond character belongs have been actively complicit in the Satanic take over and destroy process. Thus, the premise of any post-2020 James Bond film that follows the standard 007 franchise "good versus evil" formula is immediately incoherent and utterly absurd.
More than that, it intentionally insults and humiliates. To put it in the proper perspective, a post 2020 James Bond film would be akin to the Soviets having produced films featuring anti-Bolshevist secret agents fighting to save the world from the horrors of communism and then subsequently screening these films to gulag inmates serving life sentences during the height of Stalinist tyranny.
To save the James Bond franchise from sinking further into absurdity, I humbly propose that future, post-2020 007 films should feature more realistic and "actual" conflicts between and "good and evil". Something along the lines of Bond thwarting a massive global white supremacist movement bent on instituting worldwide white supremacy. Or, 007 infiltrating the dreaded cult of the unpecked that continues to scourge with world with life-threatening pestilence.
Even better, how about one featuring the skilled and handsome member of Her Majesty's Secret Service ruthlessly hunting down malicious Christian bloggers who are forever working to motivate people to choose the side of God and Creation?
Side Project Exterior Nearly Done
The outbuilding renovation I began in the summer is nearly finished. This is what it looked like after I stripped off the original roof and began building the walls higher. 
Once the walls were up, it was time for a new roof. My father helped me with both. 
After shingling the roof, I focused on insulating the walls and putting in the window. When that was done, I covered the exterior with some base paint, and that is where the project stands now. 
I still need to install the doors and finish the trim, both of which I will do tomorrow. The exterior still needs to be plastered, but I probably won't do that until the spring because the nights are too cold now.
In the meantime, I am going to move indoors and work on the interior of the building - drywall, painting, flooring, furnishings, etc.
Note done yet, but almost there. I am happy with how it is turning out.
Once the walls were up, it was time for a new roof. My father helped me with both. After shingling the roof, I focused on insulating the walls and putting in the window. When that was done, I covered the exterior with some base paint, and that is where the project stands now. I still need to install the doors and finish the trim, both of which I will do tomorrow. The exterior still needs to be plastered, but I probably won't do that until the spring because the nights are too cold now. In the meantime, I am going to move indoors and work on the interior of the building - drywall, painting, flooring, furnishings, etc.
Note done yet, but almost there. I am happy with how it is turning out.
October 28, 2021
"Public-Private Partnership" Is Code For Global Totalitarianism
The Satanic totalitarians behind the successful 2020 global coup want us to keep believing in things like the separation of certain entities and spheres of power. For example, They want us to believe that governments, corporations, institutions, and organizations are separate, independent bodies all doing their own things and serving their own interests.
This may have been true to a small extent before birdemic and the subsequent 2020 coup, but with the 2020 coup the totalitarians have essentially incorporated every government, corporation, institution, and organization into an all-encompassing System that is openly against God and Creation.
The interconnected motivations and aims of this comprehensive anti-God and anti- Creation System are most obvious in anything birdemic-related, but even there the Satanic totalitarians make the effort to keep up the illusion of separate and independent powers.
The moniker they ascribe to this bad illusion is "public-private partnership", which presents the totally fake relationship of government and corporations as independent powers voluntarily coming together to co-operate in the name of some awful Establishment agenda item like the climate crisis or the birdemic.
The "public-private partnership" also has a more clandestine function. By positing that government and corporations are indeed separate and independent entities, the Satanic totalitarians can freely engage in a perpetual "good cop, bad cop" charade when pushing their various cruel agenda items through. Or they can band the public and private together as saviors of the world if it happens to suit a certain goal or purpose.
A good example of how public-private partnership works can be readily extrapolated from a recent excerpt from a Hungarian newspaper (code words added):
The government has decided to give employers the right to require pecking against birdemic as a precondition of employment in order to ensure workers’ safety, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday at his regular press briefing.
The government has made a U-turn regarding compulsory pecks. Up until now, pecking was mandatory only for healthcare workers, arguing that Hungarians would not “stomach” mandatory pecking.
But from now on, employers can make pecking compulsory for their employees. According to PMO head Gergely Gulyás, the state, as an employer, will also apply the measure. Mayors will also have the right to introduce the requirement at local councils.
See how that works? It isn't the government imposing the stomach-turning pecks, but employers. Sure, the government has given the employers the "right", but it's not the government itself that is making pecks mandatory - unless, of course, you happen to work for the government, in which case the government is just an employer. And you see, not all branches of government "have to" impose the mandate. Nor do all employers. The choice is theirs to make.
Ah, the beauty of public-private partnership - totalitarianism in plain sight.
It's time to bury these illusions about separate and independent entities and organizations. What we have now is the System. And that System is evil in a way and to a degree that no other system in the history of the world has ever been.
Yeah, even more evil than communism. I personally didn't believe that was possible, but here we are.
This may have been true to a small extent before birdemic and the subsequent 2020 coup, but with the 2020 coup the totalitarians have essentially incorporated every government, corporation, institution, and organization into an all-encompassing System that is openly against God and Creation.
The interconnected motivations and aims of this comprehensive anti-God and anti- Creation System are most obvious in anything birdemic-related, but even there the Satanic totalitarians make the effort to keep up the illusion of separate and independent powers.
The moniker they ascribe to this bad illusion is "public-private partnership", which presents the totally fake relationship of government and corporations as independent powers voluntarily coming together to co-operate in the name of some awful Establishment agenda item like the climate crisis or the birdemic.
The "public-private partnership" also has a more clandestine function. By positing that government and corporations are indeed separate and independent entities, the Satanic totalitarians can freely engage in a perpetual "good cop, bad cop" charade when pushing their various cruel agenda items through. Or they can band the public and private together as saviors of the world if it happens to suit a certain goal or purpose.
A good example of how public-private partnership works can be readily extrapolated from a recent excerpt from a Hungarian newspaper (code words added):
The government has decided to give employers the right to require pecking against birdemic as a precondition of employment in order to ensure workers’ safety, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday at his regular press briefing.
The government has made a U-turn regarding compulsory pecks. Up until now, pecking was mandatory only for healthcare workers, arguing that Hungarians would not “stomach” mandatory pecking.
But from now on, employers can make pecking compulsory for their employees. According to PMO head Gergely Gulyás, the state, as an employer, will also apply the measure. Mayors will also have the right to introduce the requirement at local councils.
See how that works? It isn't the government imposing the stomach-turning pecks, but employers. Sure, the government has given the employers the "right", but it's not the government itself that is making pecks mandatory - unless, of course, you happen to work for the government, in which case the government is just an employer. And you see, not all branches of government "have to" impose the mandate. Nor do all employers. The choice is theirs to make.
Ah, the beauty of public-private partnership - totalitarianism in plain sight.
It's time to bury these illusions about separate and independent entities and organizations. What we have now is the System. And that System is evil in a way and to a degree that no other system in the history of the world has ever been.
Yeah, even more evil than communism. I personally didn't believe that was possible, but here we are.
It Is Necessary To Denounce This Satanic Action Against God
Thankfully, not every Christian functioning within the corrupted and complicit machinations of System Christianity is a System Christian at heart.
Case in point - Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who is among the mere handful of Catholic clergy that have demonstrated exceptional discernment when it comes to the birdemic and the 2020 global totalitarian coup (bold added, terminology coded by me):
I realize that it may be extremely unpopular to take a position against the so-called pecks, but as Shepherds of the flock of the Lord we have the duty to denounce the horrible crime that is being carried out, whose goal is to create billions of chronically ill people and to exterminate millions and millions of people, based on the infernal ideology of the “Great Reset” formulated by the President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and endorsed by institutions and organizations around the world.
The silence of so many cardinals and bishops, along with the inconceivable promotion of the peck campaign by the Holy See, represents a form of unprecedented complicity that cannot continue any longer. It is necessary to denounce this scandal, this crime against humanity, this satanic action against God.
With every passing day, thousands of people are dying or are being affected in their health by the illusion that the so-called pecks guarantee a solution to the birdemic emergency. The Catholic Church has the duty before God and all of humanity to denounce this tremendous and horrible crime with the utmost firmness, giving clear directions and taking a stand against those who, in the name of a pseudo-science subservient to the interests of the pharmaceutical companies and the globalist elite, have only intentions of death.
How Joe Biden, who also defines himself as “Catholic,” could impose pecking on 28 million children aged 5 to 11, is absolutely inconceivable, if only for the fact that there is practically zero risk of them developing the birdemic disease. The Holy See and the Bishops’ Conferences have the duty to express a firm condemnation in this regard, and also in relation to the very serious side effects that can result for children who are inoculated with the experimental gene serum.
If I didn't know better, I would swear that Archbishop Vigano has been an avid reader of Romantic Christian blogs over these past nineteen months.
Who knows? Maybe he has been.
Or maybe he's a Christian who has made a strong commitment to truly follow Christ and to be on the side of God and Creation. As such, not only is he able to see through the lies, but also resist them.
We need more Viganos in this world, and we need them NOW.
Listen: What this man says is true. Consider what he has to say and then weigh it against your own discernment, experience, and intuition. Time is running out. Commitments need to be made, and they need to be made NOW.
Read Abp. Vigano's entire letter here.
October 26, 2021
Evil Does Not Want You to Learn From Experience - Great Video Version
Islanti - who has been an avid supporter of the circle of bloggers with whom I am associated - has started up a You Tube channel featuring narrated versions of blog posts and essays by bloggers he tracks via his New World Island aggregator site.
The other day, Islanti posted an excellent video narration of a Bruce Charlton essay. Today, he narrates a post by yours truly.
You can support Islanti (and us) by following his aggregator site or by subscribing to his new YT channel.
Thanks, Islanti!
The other day, Islanti posted an excellent video narration of a Bruce Charlton essay. Today, he narrates a post by yours truly.
You can support Islanti (and us) by following his aggregator site or by subscribing to his new YT channel.
Thanks, Islanti!
What Will it Take to Open the Door to The Light of the World?
The Light of the World - William Holman Hunt - 1851 A famous nineteeth-century allegorical painting of Christ knocking at the door of the human soul and consciousness. The most significant details are the overgrowth upon the door and the missing external door handle, indicating that the door to consciousness has been unused for a long time and can only be opened from within.John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
That was the nineteenth century. If Holman painted this today, we wouldn't even be able to see the door, only overgrowth. On top of that, the hidden door would be fortified with the most up-to-date and pointless home security system consciousness can buy.
I'll leave the analysis of the painting to others this time - see below.
