Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the Devil’s biggest victory was convincing us it doesn’t exist, its second is that law serves all of us, and its third is that we need the elite. All these lies serve to make us weak, stupid, and gullible. The Devil exists, even if only as a hidden drive. The spirit of the Devil lives in all of us, and as the old Indian proverb goes, “We each have a wolf, a good one and a bad one, the one that grows strong is the one we feed.” The next great lie is that we can offload our moral obligations onto a legalist system. No need for people to hold themselves to a standard when the government will do it for us with law. This ends up with law serving those who write it, not those subject to it. The last one is perhaps the most pernicious. That we need the elite to govern us is a lie that has legs.
We are inculcated from birth that we need the elite to regulate us by law. Without their wise oversight we will do terrible things to each other. The next thing the elite do is create the crime necessary to manipulate us into agreement. The worse they can get things, the more we will need a legal system to regulate us. This opens the door to unlimited power. That’s why factions vie more vehemently for political power every year. To be the ones to benefit and not the ones who are extracted from. This need not be the case. In high trust communities, like Amish communities, crime is non-existent. The only need of central planning is for infrastructure and readying a barn raising. Many other high trust civilizations have existed, all perverted to legalism by the elite.
No matter how earnest the founders of any civilization, law eventually serves only those who write and enforce it. That was the only thing Thrasymachus was right about. Law serves the strong at cost to the weak. The trick, however, is to keep the victims unaware they are victims. Law is sold as a protection for the little guy and consequences for the big guy. Despite the fact the exact opposite is true. Walk into a court with a $200.00-an-hour attorney against a team of $1500.00-an-hour lawyers, and law is irrelevant. The only way such a litigant could win is if the judge is philosophically on their side. Then the appeals court will probably throw it out. If that’s not the case, law is law regardless of the person. Why would the wealthy pay $1500.00 for a lawyer when cheaper ones are available?
When we stupidly think the Devil doesn’t exist, even as a spirit within the human heart, we become its unknowing victim. Jung called it our dark side. He said if we don’t acknowledge it, it will silently rule us and we will call it fate. Then again, the possibility that there is a real spirit of evil that manipulates us can’t be ruled out. Falsification of that hypothesis is notoriously difficult. So, regardless if the Devil is a spirit in our hearts, in governments, or in Hades it has agency to deceive, manipulate, and destroy. Its best deception is that it doesn’t exist so we need not be wary of it. Such a mindset turns us into corralled sheep. Is it any wonder then that so many of us are confused, manipulated, and destroyed? We are all caught up in these lies to some extent.
The first step to escaping the effects of a lie is to recognize it. All swindles are based on a premise that is a lie. From the pig in a poke con to a Ponzi scheme all swindles are based on a lie. If you realize there is a cat in that bag not a piglet the swindle is over. The second you understand there are no returns just money shuffling to make it look like there are returns, the Ponzi scheme is over. If enough of us open our eyes to the fact the Devil is real and we need watch out for it, Law doesn’t serve us it serves the elite, and that government itself is the major source of corruption in our societies, that those shenanigans will cease. It’s ugly to look at but look at it we must. Next we have to tell others. No one deserves to be taken advantage of. These are the best ways to end the con games.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
