Dear Friends,
It seems to me… we live in the best of times and the worst of times. Capitalism has created prosperity that is at an all time high, with less people suffering from famine than ever before in human history, while at the same time the elite tell us through their monuments, actions and policies, they seek to reduce the human population by 70%. We stand at the cusp of becoming a space faring race even as our governments gear up to militarize space. Our access to information is unparalleled while our leaders go about regulating our access to it. The ability to speak to an audience has never been better meanwhile, the state builds a surveillance apparatus, one that makes 1984 look like play school. The stock markets are just off an all time high inflated by unlimited money printing, monetizing debt and stock buybacks. Travel around the globe is cheaper and more readily available than any other time in our history, even as Christians in the Middle East and Whites in South Africa are trapped and slaughtered.
One can look at only the evils in our world but that is an exercise in navel gazing and can only lead to a nihilistic mindset. It isn’t hard to only see evil. Heck it is impossible to miss. Evils surround us, from abortion to unchecked corporate power, so it is only reasonable to see it. To focus on it however, like it is the only thing out there is like staring at your elbow. It is there, and we should be cognizant of it, but in the end such an endeavor is a waste of time and is not at all utile. In other words… we miss the important when we focus on the unimportant, our elbows… or evil. Plus, people who never change focus become myopic, unable to clearly see anything, outside their narrow field of focus. The person who only sees evil must become evil, for we are what we eat… and think.
Alternatively, one can look at only the good, but that leads to blindness and Pollianish thoughts. While the person who only sees goodness, must in time become good, yet to look at only light blinds us. What utility is it to be good and blind? That blindness and goodness is often called being Pollianish. Which is to say that someone only looks at the goodness around them, and so becomes good, then projects that goodness in themselves on the world. Such people are easy marks and are often taken advantage of. It is never a good idea to project oneself onto the world. The world never actually reflects us. To understand the world however, takes more than simply being good, it takes perception. Perception is the ability to see and understand, which can only happen when one sees everything, the good, the bad and the ugly.
It only makes sense to open one’s eyes to both the evil and the good in our world, only that way can someone have sufficient perspective to really see, and then reason, finally expounding to the world the results. Only when we look at both good and evil around us are we able to see the interplay of them, recognize each for what it is, have minimum susceptibility to propaganda and indeed think for ourselves. Seeing only evil, or good, allows people with nefarious intent to manipulate us into acting against our own best interests. Once a person sees that… they start to have power. Power not only to resist the manipulations, but help our fellow human beings resist being manipulated. Moreover, until the elite regulate the internet to silence us, now is the best time in human history to get your opinion out. Make a difference, not with violence, anger or intimidation, but with reason, love and compassion.
We do indeed live in extraordinary times. We are surrounded by great good as well as horrific evil. More children than ever before survive their first 5 years even as 60,000,000 babies have been slaughtered, prosperity fills places it’s been absent for decades while socialism creates poverty in places blessed with wealth, billions of dollars of largess flows into the Middle East and is squandered on perpetual war defined by hatred… our world is certainly filled with both evil and good. As every great hero is defined by his villain, and it is in relativity that we understand magnitude… there would be no goodness without some evil, but I suppose we can all agree that it takes very little evil to define a great deal of good, just as a great deal of evil makes a small piece of good… heaven.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
