Wow. You are on fire with that one. It should be required reading for every damn person. People have been conveniently blind because it is easier to get on the bus than to walk a path nobody else around them is following. Just like the Poles in Warsaw or Dutch in Amsterdam, it is much easier to surrender to a few thousand Nazis with guns and give up the Jews (because that is all they wanted, right?) than for 100K to people band together with clubs and all work together to defeat the problem. It takes courage to stand up. Your Mom was amazing. And fierce. I so love that. The apple didn't fall far from that tree. Nicely said.
Covid ratified the motion. Most people can't think. Of all of our relatives, no thinking people there at all. It's so bad that if the multiply jabbed suffer death or really life altering stuff like blood clots, for instance, connections likely will not be made. However, if it does get out into to the mainstream media, as it might be doing, then there's a chance for change. Otherwise, forget it.
Great commentary and an excellent observation. Unfortunately, human beings are very prone to obedience in the negative form that you mention, because unfortunately, the vast majority of human beings would rather die than have to think for themselves, and thus face the consequence of thinking for themselves - to actually make a decision for themselves. The “nice woman“ that you had the exchange with who thought that her parents brought her up and her entire generation up to be obedient has a powerful ring of truth to it. What she fails to understand, what she fails to grasp, is that that sort of obedience is absolutely dependent on a society that is structured in such a way that those people who are our “superiors“ in whatever area or field, that are acting in a moral, just way with integrity . That has probably never been the case throughout history, and it certainly is not the case now in our era.
You are also correct in pointing out that the only one we must be obedient to is to God himself. Everyone else we have to be skeptical. Being skeptical requires us to make decisions, that is to think for ourselves and act accordingly , and that brings me back to the unfortunate observation, that the overwhelming percentage of humanity in any era, at any time would rather die than have to do that.
"Obey," is one of those words (like Hope, Change, and Faith) that we've been deliberately conditioned to accept with no object. (Obey who? Hope in what? Change to what? Faith in what?) Interestingly, it has some bizarre-satanic roots in memes by one particular artist (Shepherd Fairey; go look him up) who grounded his first meme in 20th century pop culture simulacra (professional wrestling) in 1989.
Wow. I'm so incredibly impressed with how you can take a few sentences from a person you don't know, twist it, and then create a long, windy, congratulatory, and virtuous commentary about yourself!
Wow. You are on fire with that one. It should be required reading for every damn person. People have been conveniently blind because it is easier to get on the bus than to walk a path nobody else around them is following. Just like the Poles in Warsaw or Dutch in Amsterdam, it is much easier to surrender to a few thousand Nazis with guns and give up the Jews (because that is all they wanted, right?) than for 100K to people band together with clubs and all work together to defeat the problem. It takes courage to stand up. Your Mom was amazing. And fierce. I so love that. The apple didn't fall far from that tree. Nicely said.
Covid ratified the motion. Most people can't think. Of all of our relatives, no thinking people there at all. It's so bad that if the multiply jabbed suffer death or really life altering stuff like blood clots, for instance, connections likely will not be made. However, if it does get out into to the mainstream media, as it might be doing, then there's a chance for change. Otherwise, forget it.
Great commentary and an excellent observation. Unfortunately, human beings are very prone to obedience in the negative form that you mention, because unfortunately, the vast majority of human beings would rather die than have to think for themselves, and thus face the consequence of thinking for themselves - to actually make a decision for themselves. The “nice woman“ that you had the exchange with who thought that her parents brought her up and her entire generation up to be obedient has a powerful ring of truth to it. What she fails to understand, what she fails to grasp, is that that sort of obedience is absolutely dependent on a society that is structured in such a way that those people who are our “superiors“ in whatever area or field, that are acting in a moral, just way with integrity . That has probably never been the case throughout history, and it certainly is not the case now in our era.
You are also correct in pointing out that the only one we must be obedient to is to God himself. Everyone else we have to be skeptical. Being skeptical requires us to make decisions, that is to think for ourselves and act accordingly , and that brings me back to the unfortunate observation, that the overwhelming percentage of humanity in any era, at any time would rather die than have to do that.
Very well-said overall.
"Obey," is one of those words (like Hope, Change, and Faith) that we've been deliberately conditioned to accept with no object. (Obey who? Hope in what? Change to what? Faith in what?) Interestingly, it has some bizarre-satanic roots in memes by one particular artist (Shepherd Fairey; go look him up) who grounded his first meme in 20th century pop culture simulacra (professional wrestling) in 1989.
Nice!
AMEN!
Wow. I'm so incredibly impressed with how you can take a few sentences from a person you don't know, twist it, and then create a long, windy, congratulatory, and virtuous commentary about yourself!