The almost complete surrender of power by academics and doctors happened almost entirely without coercion. Why?
Essentially, deeply, due to the lack of motivation and courage from living as godless-expedient hedonists (i.e. regarding mortal life as wholly about 'utility'), on the basic of incoherent (increasingly inverted) Leftist values.
Lacking any positive transcendent values (truth, beauty, virtue, coherence...); modern people, especially Westerners, are easier to control than any group I have heard of throughout history.
But how did this control operate proximately? The answer could be termed pre-emptive compliance.
The management (whether national or local) would announce what was going to happen - some new scheme to strip autonomy from academics and subordinate teaching, research, scholarship under administrative control; or some new, extra, unpaid and harmful bureaucratic tasks...
And always the mass reaction was 1. to assume that this was inevitable and that 'resistance is futile'; and therefore to comply instantly and with feigned enthusiasm.
There was essentially zero mass resistance, yet those individuals who did refuse to comply were - for many years - left alone; showing that mass resistance would likely have been effective.
In other words - the mass of people responded pre-emptively to threats: threats were made, and people obeyed... Obeyed even before threats were implemented, obeyed even when threats were not implemented!
Scaled-up this has been the story of The West over the past several generations. Coercion to enforce totalitarian tyranny was very seldom needed or used, because compliance was automatic and instant - despite that there has been very widespread cynicism concerning the motivations of the bureaucracy and politicians whose instructions were being so slavishly obeyed.
This is a measure of our spiritual malaise - the West has quietly, obediently and pre-emptively complied with each step of a now System which covers all nations and regions, and claims authority over all aspects of human existence including family, church, and a Man's private thoughts - i.e. a global totalitarianism.
And there has been extremely little need for coercion, because the world has complied automatically and instantly; which is evidence of an extreme level of human demotivation due to gross insufficiency of any inner and positive convictions that might provide a basis for even conceptualized a need for resistance.
That is the point. We are not seeing merely a global 'failure' of resistance; but a global failure to recognize any need for resistance: that is, a failure to have any reason for resistance of a totalitarianism which is evil both intrinsically (in that universal control is of-itself evil) and also evil explicitly, in its agenda.
Our spiritual malaise is therefore much, much worse than most people seem to realize. People talk as if what was lacking is means to resist evil (they usually mean some kind of organization); but the much deeper problem is a lack even of the basic desire to resist evil.
And this stems from a false basic understanding of the nature of reality - false metaphysical assumptions about the world - consequence of generations of apostasy from Christianity combined with a pervasive 'materialism' that by-now permeates traditional Christianity.
If, on the other hand; you are personally motivated Not to comply - because you have strong positive motivations with which compliance interferes and/or because you regard totalitarianism as evil by nature and/or intent - then you do not need a plan for non-compliance.
One simply does not comply - and wait to see what (if anything) happens. Sometimes nothing happens.
If there are threats (and there will be) they are ignored. Often they lead to nothing. So one waits to see if the threats really are going to be implemented - sometimes they are not.
If the threats are implemented - which is relatively rare, because resource-consuming; one may still refuse to comply, or comply as late as possible (to make Them make extra effort - sometimes they will not, or will delay).
One may continue to disobey except when specifically told to obey - refuse to self-police, make Them do it (so They must expend effort); behaviour is adjusted reactively, not pre-emptively.
Evil plans and threats are cheap hence innumerable - an accurate response is that each will only happen when it has happened.
And even then evil will only continue happening either due to continued effort and resource expenditure from those who want it to happen - or else because of the chosen surrender to evil of pre-emptive compliance and self-policing.
In sum - resistance to evil has many levels and degrees - most are 'passive' (a matter of non-compliance); most are about delaying in hope of unforeseen providential assistance, not all require heroism and some at least are possible even to the most timid.
Enough delay, from enough people, for the right motivations; will provide God with everything He needs to make a cohesive, positive, alternative, better future.
God helps those who help themselves is both true, and exclusive: God helps only those who help themselves.
If individual people do not make choices, for good and against evil - then God cannot pursue good ends in this mortal world. But when some people do know and choose the side of God; then by the invisible working of providence (possible to The Creator) then an unknowably great deal can be achieved by combining and sequencing these individual acts.
Any individual who is motivated to do good or resist evil, will find sufficient discernment and some courage. And then each such act can be woven-with other such acts, by God, into a divine plan of scope far beyond the wit of Man.
But what all require is motivation - and motivation is based on an understanding of reality that identifies and distinguishes between good and evil, and the capacity to discern this for oneself (not relying on 'authority' to inform you) - it requires a perspective that we are each responsible for our own choices, and that individual choice is of genuine significance, and makes-a-difference.
In other words, resistance needs a transcendental perspective - one that is larger than this mortal life; and it also needs a personal perspective - that regards an individual's as able to make choices and those choices as having cosmic significance.
I don't know of anything other than Christianity - and even then only some kinds of Christianity - that can (even in principle) lead to such a combination of personal and transcendental motivations; and therefore sustain even the desire to resist totalitarian evil.
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Next, and please do not take this wrong, but are you aware that there's already a KevinSmith kevin smith here? (And who the hell is 'Kevin Smith' anyway? Similarly, I know that we have a nedlud and a Nedd Ludd (I can't get their spellings right.)but there's no confusing those two.) To minimize potential confusion, would it be possible to reregister under a different name? I apologize for such, but I hated seeing KS to find I didn't learn something about the scumbags' names who really control our world.
Again, and finally, please realize that I say what I mean, vice versa, and no more. Thank you!
RC
here's a photo of bunch of sotties riding out those negative influences, RC and Si are in the front car, followed by codis & balboa, behind them HVtech & LM....
Again, and no matter what, I apologize.
RC
What? Me? Trust me; I work for the Bribem Regime, at least recently.
RC
* Man, this is top flight United Spot! [Link] "at age 2, Kyle swore to be a white supremacist
RC
You may be interested in this I wrote outlining the predicament of having a common name. All the best.
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Wow! That is a cool link! Interesting, especially since I wrote all of the below without having read it.
As re my real name, I have one that has only one (maybe two) other persons with it in the whole of the US and that's where my just as cool and different middle name even differentiates me more. There's no one with my full three name name. (I've always felt lucky to have been named well and felt sorry for folks who've received awkward names etc. Kevin's always been a good name though. I would have been happy to have it. One of the very few names which I felt were better than mine was Shane, probably from the film.
But I actually called up the who has my exact first and last name, and found out that he wasn't born with my name - his father was involved in the stuff that became 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' and moved from the UK to here to avoid the KGB! To top it off, that same guy is TRULY someone who helped 'invent the Internet!' He too is a doctor, but of computer science rather than law.) Destiny in a name? Kinda cool. (No, I ain't gonna say it. Nice guy; real SOTType.)
*I've previously actually met a true doppelganger. a really cool story. All the people who worked at Walmart were demanding that I fix their slot machines. I got accosted about fixing the slots over 5 times in the store, and no one believed me and they were getting pissed about it. I literally had to show my DL to the cashier because as I was walking out after she hit me (again - she didn't believe my disclaimer) with, "Aren't you going to fix the slots?" and I turned around and pulled out my DL and was allowed to leave in peace. (I think she might have pulled another cashier over, 'Look at this, he's really not Scott!'
THEN, in the parking lot walking to my car, it felt just like walking at a full length mirror. There was the handsomest Mel Gibson looking guy you'd ever see. I said, 'So you're Scott, I guess." It was a memorable experience. Really, really cool. Nice guy too.
Is there some famous or literary KS? Or is that both y'all's names? I dunno. It's all y'all's call. As far as I'm concerned, the more SOTTites the better. It IS confusing though.
RC
Ken
BK
Peace is easy,
BK
The first contructive bit of criticism I had was as re:
And always t he mass reaction was 1. to assume that this was inevitable and that 'resistance is futile'; and therefore to comply instantly and with feigned enthusiasm.WTF is up with ath "1" standing starkly out there with no hard returns, no parentheses nor brackets nor bullets etc? This ain't some text sent to a friend. Importantly and also, what / where is your obligatory #2? Jesus H. Christ, heaven help us.
I could critique several more substantive things that a SOTTite should never have to deal with, but I didn't bother to finish it. Work on your paper skills sir, for I detect you have value to add.
R.C.
If you are a questioner you ask questions and you research. You seek to know. If you believe in science then discussion and research lead you to informed choice. This is the intellectual way.
Emotional intelligence also plays a role. What you value also affects choice. Do you value truth, freedom, human rights, justice, courage, art, culture? Or do you value the false values of CRT and sexual identities? Then on a higher level do you see intelligent design in everything?
Who are you and what di you stand for?
The way to understand the development as being invisible is in its gradualness and generationally. It is movies and education and media. If you transported someone from the sixties to now and showed them what is being taught and shown in movies they would be outraged. By doing it gradually, you mold the beliefs of the masses as Bernays promoted.
Those lulled slowly to sleep upon the will of others wake up MEAN when they realize they been played (#77)
BK
Buffalo_Ken Yes. There will be anger. Woe to the government, media and science puppeteers.Dwoods44 - I can't argue with that. I don't like it, but what is the alternative?
Ken
what's with this "pre-emptive" stuff ... and all the other wordiness ?
this didn't happen overnight, people have been dumbed down from nutrient deficient foods, social media, holywood, heavy metal aerosolized particles i.e. chem-trails and who knows what else for decades ... not just their inability to be the right kind of christian.
i see a danger in going overboard with the religious bent on your articles ... just offering constructive thoughts as
you show a ton of enthusiasm, fortitude, and good will in writing this article.