The Pandemic of Folly
I was planning to pound out a post about the present circumstances with some specific thoughts in mind, but I'm going to put that off because I can't neglect to make a quick brief post on the recent "relief package" passed by Congress and signed by the president.
Please know right out of the gate that this is what autocratic potentates do. There is always a crisis to exploit, always. And that this present authoritarian government is smothered in democracy language does not change the legitimate power Caesar has over a populace that indeed does afford him that privilege.
But also know that there is a cost. This $2 trillion "relief package" is merely another form of indulgence extraction. It is foisted upon the American people as something these white knights from Washington riding into town on their golden chariots are doing to rescue the downtrodden, hammered by the overwhelming fear largely manufactured by a brilliantly managed mass media network.
There was one individual in the federal government who protested, one Thomas Massie, a congressman from Kentucky, and for that he was excoriated by everyone. Hardly anyone considered him principled for his respectably reasonable objections, but then, there you go.
I'll just direct you to this piece from Zero Hedge which lays it out pretty succinctly, and to a quote from Massie which says a ton. Essentially he pointed out that if we plan to go into even more massive debt for the $2 trillion simply to hand money to people, why not spend $350 trillion and give $1 million to every American? What are we fiddling around with small change?
Great point.
The average American is so consumed by the folly, or is just so Catholicist that the indulgence conflagration is all they know.
They could know Christ, however.
Have their treasures kept secure in heaven. Have a peace that transcends understanding. Have actual deliverance from that body of death.
More to post...
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Please know right out of the gate that this is what autocratic potentates do. There is always a crisis to exploit, always. And that this present authoritarian government is smothered in democracy language does not change the legitimate power Caesar has over a populace that indeed does afford him that privilege.
But also know that there is a cost. This $2 trillion "relief package" is merely another form of indulgence extraction. It is foisted upon the American people as something these white knights from Washington riding into town on their golden chariots are doing to rescue the downtrodden, hammered by the overwhelming fear largely manufactured by a brilliantly managed mass media network.
There was one individual in the federal government who protested, one Thomas Massie, a congressman from Kentucky, and for that he was excoriated by everyone. Hardly anyone considered him principled for his respectably reasonable objections, but then, there you go.
I'll just direct you to this piece from Zero Hedge which lays it out pretty succinctly, and to a quote from Massie which says a ton. Essentially he pointed out that if we plan to go into even more massive debt for the $2 trillion simply to hand money to people, why not spend $350 trillion and give $1 million to every American? What are we fiddling around with small change?
Great point.
The average American is so consumed by the folly, or is just so Catholicist that the indulgence conflagration is all they know.
They could know Christ, however.
Have their treasures kept secure in heaven. Have a peace that transcends understanding. Have actual deliverance from that body of death.
More to post...
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