Recently I saw a video that hit me in the heart. It was a person in front of the camera talking through some troubles. However, it was pretty clear that they were truly struggling. Engaged in a war within themselves that clearly touches their very soul. It was hard to watch this person try to hold it together while nasty people said nasty things. You could see the emotion and suffering in the eyes of this person. I know that struggle. I know the emotional volatility of the whole experience. What it feels like when it takes everything you have to hold the stitching together, and it still seems to tear away. The hopelessness that comes with that. The depression that follows and the cycle that never seems to end.
I watched a broken person who was struggling with life, loneliness, and addiction. I know that battle well. This February it will be 5 years since I last took a drink. To God goes all that glory.
Those who have managed to put the demons of addiction and alcoholism behind us have in most cases paid a high price to do so. Often times leaving a wake of broken promises and damaged relationships that seem at the time will never heal. It is overwhelming and steals away your hope. So why bother trying to fix something when you feel like you’ve damaged it beyond repair?
Because it is worth it. Cliché as it sounds, you are worth it. The people in your life are worth it. At some point it becomes suicide to continue.
In that process we will most likely strengthen our character and heal broken relationships. Those of us who have spent time in those hopeless trenches, well, our hearts never forget what it feels like. Nor the helplessness we felt when those demons would come around. Tormenting and tempting us into destroying ourselves. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you don’t.
In this weird world, it is easy to hate someone just because they have different opinions. It is taught to us and encouraged with the lessons we learn at school and the wedges placed into society that reenforce those distorted perceptions about people who are different from us. It makes it easy not to love each other. It makes it easy to hurt each other.
It is easy to forget that we are all in these streets struggling together. I believe we are all simply souls trying desperately to get through life while experiencing as little pain as possible. Most keep their battles hidden, some wear them on the outside where you can see them. I have a heart for people like that. I am one of them. I always will be.
The whole thing got me thinking about how we can’t force other people to see things our way, and we shouldn’t hate them because we don’t agree on some trivial issue that has been amplified by outside sources to cause division where there should be none.
When will we realize we breathe the same air?
Why can’t we disagree with each other and not be enemies?
What is wrong with us that we can dismiss a person completely just because we disagree on something.
This the mentality of the day. Whoever injected this idea into society was a mastermind. Individualize people into their own personal prisons, eventually they will lock themselves into it voluntarily. They could leave when they want, but it is dangerous out there. Your feelings could get hurt. Instead just sit down and draw your attention to the screen on the wall, or on your desk, or your refrigerator door, or your cars dashboard, or on your wrist, or in your hand, or even strapped to your head.
Nothing is real anymore and the people have become detached from each other. Most expect to be served but won’t be a servant to someone else.
Life is easier when you remove that emotional connection to other people. That allows people to separate ourselves from others in every way possible. Now others become just an object, a label, an enemy. To be ignored, slandered, and silenced.
Most of us learn at a young age that unfortunately we can’t just yell the truth into people. It doesn’t work that way. Even if you really, really, really think you’re right. Typically if you are trying to convince someone that your position is better than theirs. Yelling, swearing, and insulting aren’t going to work. As a matter of fact it almost always has the opposite effect. Driving people away from you and your cause. How can people not understand this? Are we so trapped in our little worlds that we have lost the ability to effectively communicate with those we don’t see eye to eye with?
When talking stops war begins. Actually the war has already begun. While the first shots have not yet been fired, the build up is in full swing and has been for decades. We have been taught to hate each other. Encouraged to gather on the battlefield that is really just like a Roman Coliseum. Those that would have us fight, or that we fight for, stand on the outside of the circle. Safe from the arrows and swords. They direct the action and set the rules but never step inside the circle.
Those outside the circle create propaganda and manipulate the people inside the circle to advance their goals, or their political agenda. They care not what happens to those of us on the coliseum floor. The ones left mangled and damaged. We are nothing more than entertainment or an experiment to them. Surprisingly there are some inside the circle still defending those tyrants that would have us hate and fight for their gain or amusement.
Useful idiots and enemies of America.
Not only do patriots on the coliseum floor have to fight those controlling it. They have to fight the nasty drama zombies who bounce from group to group stirring up trouble and throwing drama grenades only to watch the world burn them down. Or those that call themselves patriots but only work to divide the patriot movement so that they might stand upon the rubble. Whether they do so calling themselves Kings or Conquerors, they rule a land of ashes burned up by egos and pride.
If I Were a Useful Idiot
If I were a useful idiot life would be so easy. I would be able to dismiss those who didn’t agree with me without thinking twice about it. My nose held high so I could look smug even when I knew I had no idea what I was talking about.
If I was a useful idiot, when challenged I would remind myself that they are stupid and I am smart. I will lash out and spew my own truth. It is my safe space. As long as the words I say are “my truth”, then I get to present a false argument and validate it with my own feelings. I no longer have to know the facts or see the evidence. I am the evidence and by disagreeing with me, you aren’t debating the issue anymore. Now you’re personally attacking me. That makes opposition easy to polarize, even if you did nothing wrong.
If I was a useful idiot, I would follow that simple plan then I no longer have to be right. My tactics aren’t based on being correct anyway. I rarely am. I don’t have to be, this is the new math. I simply have to think you’re wrong and then I am justified in dismissing you, demonizing you in some way as to achieve your polarization. Then it doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong. No one will listen. The debate no longer matters. I don’t aim to win the debate I aim to cause you to lose it.
If I was a useful idiot...
There is no pressure for me. I don’t have to remember facts or apply critical thinking to any issues. I only need to remember a few talking points and the rest is the same basic tactics every time. Typically no more than 3. You see I don’t have to understand the issues, I only need to feel I am morally right or compassionate to apply the same tactics of character assassination that I was taught. The issues no longer matter. It is all about virtue signaling.
You see, that is the beauty of the useful idiot’s life. They don’t have to be right. They don’t even need to prove you wrong. As long as they are convinced that they are morally right. That their position is the one of compassion, they will do almost anything for the mission. They only have to prove you are not perfect. Find some crack in your armor and exploit it. Amplify it and attach it to your identity. No longer will people hear your words. They only see the label. Polarization is a powerful tool used to silence opposition without having to silence them. They take away the audience from those they believe shouldn’t have a voice.
Useful idiots believe they are right simply because they say so. It is all really very scientific.
Trust the science. Vilify and destroy those who think critically or ask questions.
What has happened to our humanity? Have we forgotten how to love each other?
Have we forgotten that we are supposed to love each other?
The way we save America isn’t found in fighting each other. It is found in loving each other.
It is time to realize, if you hate someone just because you disagree, you are part of the problem. Even if you really want to believe that you are part of the solution.
It is by loving each other that we will once again begin to build community and restore America.
Do not allow your hearts to become hardened or cynical against people. Hard hearts expect only to be served. That is how America got in this mess.
We must instead have a servant’s heart and expect to find joy in serving others. We will find it there.
Soon the restoration of its people will once again produce the fruits of liberty and love only found in these United States of America.
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