It’s a big task. But the facts seem clear enough: we were played, as Tucker Carlson put it. And those AgitProp efforts continue. They are happening right now on most cable news outlets.
Trump needs people to understand that the “invisible enemy” is in the gates, that they walk among us, with smiling faces, seemingly caring hearts, and that they are calling for “justice”.
I am strongly tempted to call them Wicker People, or children of the sacrifice. Much of this is very old. Any individual unwilling to lose their own ego must take the life of someone else. Any group of such people must make this process routine, lest they face seeing their own madness.
Much of this, I feel–and this is a sudden sentiment falling on me–was old ten thousand years ago. The choice all humans have to make sooner or later is if they want to be animals, or angels.
There are, I feel, heavens. And there are hells. None of us are truly ignorant of the basics. No one is born with no knowledge at all.
All of this: this is my own Chod, of sorts. I eat myself with my own doubts. Seeing this is liberating.
I will add something I felt in this mornings meditation: desire and repulsion are closely related, as are knowledge and ignorance, which might usefully be framed the rejection of knowledge.
With both desire and repulsion, there is a lasting connection, which makes you less free. There is an energetic tether, which is always pulling or pushing. And knowing is increasing awareness, and ignorance is closely related to ignoring, or choosing to reduce awareness.
What is left when desire, repulsion and ignorance are abandoned is pure free, liberated awareness. This is a cliche, of course, but I felt it more clearly than usual.
Oh, I need to put a pause on all this writing.
Terrible, terrible things are possible. So too are great things. We shall see.
President Trump: trust your gut. I think it is right most of the time.