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Shalom friends. Yom HaShoah, or "Holocaust Remembrance Day," provides us with yet another opportunity to ask some difficult questions about the nature of evil, and in particular, the nature of political evil, and how it is possible that such evil is at first tolerated by society and then somehow justified to establish and sustain a culture of fear and oppression that leads eventually to the utter madness of genocide...
A typical refrain heard at this time is Le'olam lo od - "Never again! Le'olam lo od - "Never again!" and yet it needs to be emphasized that not only could the madness of Nazi socialist fascism happen again, it is indeed already here, since the same dialectical mechanisms of social fascism are clearly at work in the world today - though in today's techno-fascist world the propaganda is global in scope, the scripted disinformation and cognitive dissonance are broadcast across cultures as a call for "unity," and the lockdown mindset is now ubiquitous... People have become self-censoring and the "cancel culture" suppresses freedom of thought and speech. "Groupthink" and sound bites have supplanted clear thinking and logical reasoning. You are now tagged as an enemy of the state if you dare question the official narrative or raise honest questions regarding the "science" that is used to justify the extreme measures of social control we are seeing today... The Vaccine Passport is the "Yellow Star" of today; those who do not "show their papers" will be either sent to "reeducation camps" or so ostracized that they will be unable to buy or sell in the globalist dystopian economy to come...
How did this happen? Why did people around the world surrender their God-given ability to use logic, to ask questions, and to seek for truth? What agitated the masses of humanity to abandon their personal freedoms for the sake of mere rumors and "politically manufactured" science? The answer, of course, is the power of the "Big Lie," the tactic that evil people have used for several centuries to foment disorder and insurrection - and then seize power. When asked how it was possible that they basically ignored the Jewish Holocaust, one man replied, "We all knew. Nobody knew." Today we see it in the threats of violence created by various "community organizers," in the "Antifa" movements funded by George Soros, and in Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" that even a former president studied so well...
Alisnky wrote: "[You must help] the people in the community ... feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. [An] organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives – agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate. [You must] fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame of fight" (Alinsky: Rules for Radicals). That's the recipe to create a "new world" according to many "community organizers." Create a sense of victimization to destroy the old order; rewrite the narrative of history; and then go on to enslave once again. What a heinous way of thinking...
Read this excerpt from the book "They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer (University of Chicago Press):
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have" (Chapter 13, "But Then It Was Too Late" Mayer: 1955).
The Holocaust was the result of cowardice and self-deception... The systematic, institutionalized, and "politically correct" genocide of the Jewish people was made possible solely because so many others - including nominal "Christians" - forfeited their God-given responsibility to live as authentic individuals by passively surrendering their will to "the crowd." But giving up your identity to join a gang inevitably leads to fragmentation of the soul, potentially inviting in a "legion of demons..." Regardless of whether it's a gang of thugs running an inner city neighborhood, or the pressure to keep quiet over ethical misconduct at your place of work, or the desire to feel "approved" as a good citizen of the state, or even the pressure to conform to a particular religious group, in either case, "losing yourself" in the midst of the crowd is an evasion, a cop-out, and a desecration of the image of God within you. Indeed following the crowd is a form of slavery where you surrender your freedom for the sake of a supposed sense of security... You become self-deceived because you no longer "own" yourself but became the ward of "another." Becoming a member of a crowd makes you into a copy or similitude, a shadow rather than a person of substance.
Popular leaders know how to work and bribe the crowd - whether they are big business leaders, professional politicians, or leaders of large religious organizations. Often they have the charisma that appeals to human vanity and oratory to "tickle the ears" of those who hear them speak. Politicians and "community organizers" understand how the crowd marginalizes the individual, how the voice of reason and conscience are suppressed, thereby eradicating the conviction and character of the solitary individual. Therefore the true prophet is always "a voice crying in the wilderness," an outsider to the crowd, always in collision with the world and its devices. The crowd-pleaser, on the other hand, carefully crafts his words for the applause of the mob. The crowd-pleaser is a flatterer and therefore the very antithesis of the prophet. Politicians and demagogues are masters at appealing to the gut instincts and lusts of a crowd, and therefore they are inveterate liars. They entice subgroups to follow their directives, to form self-regulating gangs, and to reward those who unquestioningly accept their "group-think." Leaders of the crowd invariably "see past" the individual and regard only numbers, general popularity, special interests, and the abstract role of "the people" in general. They justify their fascist thinking by making appeals to "the greatest good for the greatest number of people" and therefore sacrifice the dignity of the individual for the sake of the herd they wish to control...
The Kingdom of heaven is nothing like this at all, of course. Yeshua said: "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their 'great ones' exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave" (Matt. 20:25-27). This is a call to recognize the sanctity of the lowly individual, to turn away from the evil vanity and abstractions of "political power" and worldly honor. As C.S. Lewis once remarked: "There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors" (Weight of Glory: 1949).
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