First, to briefly recap:
Facts are collective beliefs, or agreements, about the way individual things are thought, by experience, to actually be. To say they are of the nature of conventions is not to belittle them: they're all we have! But they can be, and continually are, legitimately changed when they conflict with more foundational, or better connected facts. They can also be, and too often are, illegitimately changed when they conflict with the will to power.
Trust is where the buck of verification of facts ultimately stops. The entire community edifice of agreed facts is built on trust. Trust is tautological, or, better, self-referential: we trust what we take to be true. The truth is simply that which we trust.
Lies are malicious breaches of trust.
Evil is the practice of lies as a means to illegitimately satisfy the will to power.
What was all that about? Well, there are some really good articles on LifeSite News right now! Today's editorial contains important links; do please click on any that seem of further interest.
And so, to cut finally to the chase, whenever people refer to Hegel's Problem, Reaction, Solution to suggest the Machiavellian manipulation of events, where others may jeer ‘Conspiracy theory!’ I've tended to mentally go 'Yeah, yeah, heard that; understand that,' without actually, it now appears, internalising the real evil (see recap, above) involved in the execution of this fiendish formula.
And now I find we're buried in it!
It seems to me it can be convincingly argued that everything that justifies the direction in which we are all being driven is deliberate, manufactured fiction – lies - woven often from whole cloth, whose believability by we dupes has been made possible by the methodical capture of all the trusted institutions and individuals responsible for overseeing the management of facts. I like to think that we all know at some level that this is true, but there's a powerful, governing principle apparently still inside me, and maybe inside you, that insists on behaving as if at the very least the main messages of control governing our political life are founded on honestly verified fact.
They aren’t.
I am therefore shaken up, and energised, by these LifeSite articles, which are dismissing mere institutional reform and rehabilitation as inadequate to the task now facing humanity, or at least America. They are calling instead for nothing less than the abolition of dozens, if not hundreds of government institutions! That is a very radical position. Why such extremism?
The reason they are doing this is because they themselves are facing extermination.
And so are we. Not to be melodramatic, but it’s us or them.
Transhumanism – yes, that’s where we’re headed - is beyond a mere proposal now. It is actively being pursued, and it is an assault on the very core of our humanity. As such, it can only be deemed evil, because it is built entirely on a different set of life premises than those by which we at least claim to be factually governed, and which are moral. The springboard for the transhumanist project is amoral. Not to see the intrinsic evil of this is either to misunderstand it, to underestimate it, or to side with it and therefore against humanity.
Indeed, the enormity of what's unfolding is too overwhelmingly revolutionary to grasp in its entirety. In broadest outline, transhumanism seems to me to require being on the outside, looking in on human life and affairs as one would a diorama, a chessboard, or a fishbowl. This is the mindset of despots. It is also the methodology of scientism. And it is engaged in by human beings, who like everyone else are wholly immersed in the universal continuum, but have artificially separated themselves from it by a total investment in thought. To suffer such alienation as our inevitable human condition is one thing, but to embrace it as a religion is something else entirely, and that is exactly what is happening.
It's really quite - biblical!
So this is what we're up against. And we really are. And it seems to me to require two responses. The first is to recognise that we are an intrinsic component, an expression, of the Universe. There is nothing whatever outside that experience. Everything that exists does so and can only do so through our experience of it, as an experience. Life is experience - and experience is value. Consequently, everything is value. It’s self-referential. A rose is a rose is a rose. Self incarnate is what we are; our very nature is Self, and nothing else. Ours is a moral universe, through and through.
We are not inhabiting a machine. Nor are we machines. We are living expressions. Scientism has the entire train of existence backwards.
That understood and accepted as our existential reality, our second response, it seems to me, has to be to recognize the evil that is transhumanism, and denounce it. Buddhism calls evil Error, and so it may be, but whatever we choose to call it – evil, badness, or error – it is antithetical to the healthy evolution of the living organism that is our planet, and of which we are a part. And right now it is taking charge.
A titanic struggle is under way between lies and truth. The degree to which human affairs have been coopted by lies can be judged by the fanaticism with which all alternatives to government narratives concerning alleged threats to humanity, and their solution, are being crushed. These alternatives are being presented by people heretofore considered experts, i.e. repositories of agreed facts. Their views are being smothered by politicians with power, and corporations with money, both driven by agendas for which these truths (not to be ironical) are inconvenient, their actions justified by the amorality of an overarching scientism that lets them put profit (either money, or power, or both) first. Distrust in government is consequently escalating rapidly, and rightly.
We are on the cusp of a new world order, but whose will it be? The paradigm – the religion – of scientism, handmaid of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, will not usher in transhumanism unchallenged. If thwarted in its bid to assume total control after the planned chaos that’s coming, competing world views will rush in to fill the vacuum. In clearing the rubble and righting wrongs let us not succumb to the temptation of mere ‘reform’ of the institutions – LifeSite has named some of them - that led us to this debacle. And lead us they did! Let us rather keep in mind the moral heedlessness that permitted human affairs to reach this perilous stage, and proceed with humility to rebuild integrity – the baby that scientism, unable to tell the difference, threw out with the bathwater - with new institutions, from the ground up.
To learn more about transhumanism, go here.
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Pablo
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