Dear Friends,
It seems to me, there is an old saying that is appropriate today… If they can get you to believe an absurdity, they can get you to commit an atrocity. Indeed if we look at human history, every atrocity and crime against humanity, was presaged by some psychopath getting a large portion of a people to believe in an absurdity. Often, the absurdity we are supposed to believe, is a diversion to keep us from blaming the real culprit of some societal problem. To this end, the Hegelian dialectic is handy. Create a problem, wait for the reaction, then provide a ready made solution. It may be absurd, but if the people are afraid, hungry and cold, they will believe anything… and thus do anything. This is where genocides, famines, wars and societal collapse comes from.
The Nazis convinced the Germans their loss of WWI was because of the Jews, and not the stupidity of their leaders, in starting a war without shoring up the food supply. That absurdity led to the Holocaust. Woodrow Wilson convinced many that the human race needed a pruning, and so instituted the US eugenics program, where people of “inferior genes” were rounded up and forcibly sterilized. Very progressive! In fact, Hitler himself praised American progressives, for their yeoman’s work on the idea of eugenics. Ideas he would gleefully put into practice during the Holocaust. The same eugenics and over population absurdity exists in modern progressives, like Bill gates. Which has led to their openly working to a new, more humane eugenics program, through “immunizations.”
An absurdity that has gained traction can feed back into greater absurdity later, and thus greater atrocities. As the Nazis got their ideas from American progressives like Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson, John Dewy, Earl Warren and that crew, so did Stalin. His slaughter went in a different direction. Lenin and then Stalin, walking in his footsteps, created and disseminated absurdity after absurdity… leading to the classicide of the Kulaks, the Gulags and countless needless and cruel deaths recounted by Solzhenitsyn, which later led to Pol Pot’s infecting people with the absurdity, poverty is caused by the people who produce, so he slaughtered people indiscriminately, until utopia was achieved. Shockingly, he never got there, running out of people first.
Witches were burned at the stake because people believed in absurdity, Vestial Virgins were sacrificed because a disease would go through Rome, the Maya polluted their own water supply with the corpses of their sacrifices, and whole societies have been liquidated because someone believed an absurdity. Every war that has ever happened, was because people believed an absurdity, fed to them out of the rear end of a psychopath. Because psychopaths know how to package their lies into pretty boxes and smear the truths that illustrate the falsehoods. Which means, absurdity comes wrapped as a glittering lie, while the correction to it is usually an ugly truth. People, like crows, are attracted to glittering objects, and so we often reject the ugly truth for the glittering lie.
Today we are bombarded with glittering lies, while the ugly truths are censored, so we often can’t even see them. Just in case some are swayed. We are not only expected to mouth absurdities but to believe in them and donate to them. History, as I have shown, doesn’t suggest a good outcome from such actions. Defund the police for example. Could there be a more absurd stance? Yet the democrat party is 100% on board with it. Now think about it for a moment, is it possible that believing in that absurdity, then acting on that belief… could lead to atrocities? What about universal basic salary paid for by the government? Could there be a path for that to lead to a bad end? We are no different from the Germans, Russians, or Mayans… unless we start looking for the ugly truths and disregarding the glittering lies.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
