I think Q talked about this, but I’m not much of a Q guy. I hope they are right about a resistance within our government, and wrong about mass Satanism, but I can’t spend much time or hope thinking about an anonymous person or group dropping Rorschach shaped crumbs.
But it did occur to me yesterday this FEELS like something out of the Bible, like one of those many periods in the Old Testament where God tells some prophet that “the people have lost their way, and become immoral and impious and rejected the ways of the Lord.”
It FEELS like some large segment of our populace is lost. Gone. Disconnected. Put on a boat, and drifting away.
Even those reasonable enough to retain some connection with what I would call obvious reality feel this sense of condescension towards anyone “naive” enough to think Trump is a good President. That he is acceptable as a human being or leader in ANY way.
There is this gap. There is this absolute failure to communicate, this absolute failure of empathy, not by us, but by them. It is not us. We have been trying to talk for four years. We have been trying to get people to GET why Trump is innocent of nearly all the lies being told about him 24/7 all these years.
We were the same people trying to point out that we knew–and continue to know–nearly NOTHING about Barack Obama. He may well still be, technically, an Indonesian citizen. We have a record of his Indonesian citizenship, and no record of his repatriation. And this is just one item. It could be extended quite a ways.
At root, we have people willing to ask obvious questions about issues that are unclear, and people who are willing to repeat centrally created propaganda uncritically. If you repeat such propaganda long enough, if you train yourself to repeat bullshit as if it were obvious truth, you lose something important as a human being. You lose your dignity and your capacity for honest self respect.
Someone posted this yesterday, a quote from Dostoevsky:
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.
What I would submit is that even if you are repeating OTHERS lies, the effect is the same. To repeat a lie you must first lie to yourself. And when you lie to yourself, you lose, over some time period, all authenticity. You lose your ability to trust yourself. And all of our connections to others are the same in kind as our connection with our sense of self.
Put more simply: to lie repeatedly is to disappear as a person completely.