Soapboxes:

We've all got soapboxes,even those who don't stand on rhem.

Quite Quotable: Digital Anvil.

Clever Cowards or Gullible Idiots: ( No More )

 

 

 

 

For Evil to Succeed, Good Men need do Nothing. 

 

Clever Cowards 

or

Gullible Idiots. 

 

Which?

 

Share your Outrage:

 

Lies travel half way around the world before Truth can put on its pants. 

 

 C. S.Lewis and 'Being Nice:'

 

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

Source: Athenaeam Book Club

 

( Agreed: Digital Anvil ) 

The Three Elements or Pillars:

The Three Pillars or Elements:

“That fatalism has become a hallmark of some western nations."

"The close of the Cold War was meant to usher in the final victory of democratic liberalism. With the ideological wars of the twentieth century in the rear view mirror, politics was supposed to evolve into a benign project of technocratic management carried out by well-functioning, pluralist, capitalist institutions."

( by Compact ) 

The rejection of this system by the far right and far left of politics ushered in the primacy of  political  chaos. A noisy mix-up of fluid faux genders, extreme feminism, nursery-state politics, crippled rule of free speech, scientific- barbarism, hesitantly democratic nations, tribal groups and dissidents of every flavour. Much of this accounts for  the extreme generational differences observed and the fracturing of gender unity. 

Of the rise of affirmed transsexualism, of fierce socialism, of fierce outlawing of trans-social exploration of ideas-culture,  of blustery ally/ enemy alliances and the prevalence of outright artificial/ natural 'slop.' Too many fear the rise of  suicidal radical Islam, the frenemy of communism and the mix of Chinese capitalism. The beneficial 'capitalism' of China and Russia via accepted infrastructure loans to many developing nations continue to divide the world. Proxy wars ceased to resolve armed conflict, if ever they succeeded.

Measured acceptance and vital negotiation is gone but timid subservience is the norm by once shoulder -to -shoulder allies. Once, but no longer, is  united confrontation even attempted.

 

He who hesitates seems to be the mark of slothness.

"That fatalism has become the hallmark of some Western nations."

 Interesting  but over- served theories that reverse customary norms, traditions and common - sense are rife.

All of which are much too tied -up into Humanity's current descent. Darkness of heart and mind pervades the ultimate route that men and women all too often depressingly attempt and accept.

Can we reverse our troubled ways without  being called to maintain the progressive outlook. I believe we can.

Restoration of the Western civilisation is possible and necessary.

 

 It is potentially the precursor to the  rule of the Lord Jesus without the usual accusation of christian nationalism being leveled at the conglomerate of the Christian church.  Even if you or I don't believe in the return of Jesus, the return of  democracy as the abiding world- system is both necessary and essential to the everyday health and strategic balance of the world.

 

The three foundational pillars are 

The wisdom of the ancient Greeks, the rule of Roman law and jurisprudence and the foundation of Judeo- Christian ethics and Christian thought.

It is necessary that the mash-up of the above three elements to prevail and abound the world in its entire arc be achieved.

So the earth might be closer to the outcome of peaceful co-existence.

My thanks to the original essay ( in a portion as quoted ) by the German eNewsletter: Compact.

This post is edited and reworked by me. All changes,errors and alternative views are mine.

(Final Form by Digital Anvil.)

Pause for Thought.

By Janet. Elaine Parks

I don’t think most people actually hate each other…

I think they hate what they think the other person represents.

Because let’s be honest…

Most of us aren’t sitting across from real people anymore.

We’re sitting across from:

 • headlines

 • clips

 • comment sections

 • and the worst examples of “the other side”

So instead of seeing a person…

we see a label.

And once someone becomes a label…

it’s easy to dismiss them.

It’s easy to assume the worst.

It’s easy to justify being disrespectful.

But if you actually sat down with most people…

face to face…

no cameras

no comments

no audience

You’d probably realize something uncomfortable:

You don’t actually hate them.

You disagree with them.

You see the world differently.

But hate?

That usually comes from distance… not proximity.

Social media removed the human part of conversation…

and replaced it with performance.

And now people aren’t just talking to each other…

they’re talking at  each other.

Trying to win.

Trying to prove something.

Trying to be right in front of an audience.

But real conversations don’t work like that.

And I think deep down…

a lot of people are starting to feel that.

Because this constant tension?

It’s not natural.

We weren’t meant to see each other as enemies over everything.

Maybe the problem isn’t that people are so different…

Maybe it’s that we’ve stopped seeing each other as people at all.

If you want to comment, please do!

( Agreed: Digital Anvil)

Noise & Chaos:

Noise and Chaos:

(For correction ' N ' confirmation)

By Janet Elaine Parks.

I think people are tired…

Not just of politics.

But of the noise..

The constant yelling.

The outrage cycle that never really ends.

The pressure to pick a side …and defend it no matter what, even when it doesn’t sit right with you..

It’s exhausting…

Because most people don’t actually want chaos.

They don’t wake up hoping for more division, more tension, more things to argue about.

They want clarity.

They want truth.

They want to be able to think something through… without being attacked for it…

But somewhere along the way…

thinking quietly became less valued than reacting loudly.

And having a measured opinion started to look like weakness instead of wisdom.

So people either get louder…

or they start stepping back.

And I think we need to see more of that now.

People pausing..

Questioning things.

Asking better questions instead of just repeating the loudest answers in the room… 

Because deep down, most people know…

…volume doesn’t equal truth.

Virality doesn’t equate to truth. 

And outrage doesn’t equal understanding.

You don’t have to scream to be heard.

You don’t have to match chaos with more chaos.

Sometimes the strongest voice in the room…

is the one that stays calm, pays attention, and actually thinks.

And honestly…

I think more people are starting to respect that again.

( and i have to agree. Digital Anvil )

Grief with Tears, Faith for the Difficult Years!

"Grief is not the absence of faith--its faith with tears in its eyes, still choosing to believe."

Comment:

The strongest aren't those who never cry, but those who cry and still say "God is good."

" Love teaches us what love weighs--and how strong we really are for carrying it this far."

Comment:

The depth of your grief reveals the depth of your love and both are testaments to the beautiful heart lost.

Thanks and agreed: Digital Anvil.