The Tangent College
At the beginning of this plandemic I remember screaming into the vacuum “I don’t care if it is the bubonic plague, the black death, the worst pestilence imagined, you never, ever shut down! The way to defeat pestilence and sickness is by living, not by laying down and committing suicide which is exactly what this society did. America committed collective suicide. Forgive me if I didn’t take part.
The country burned itself out on hysteria. A few of us sat idly by while we watched the world descend into madness. We asked ourselves, “what the hell is going on?” We saw the slavish compliance to this madness.
This week I want to highlight this article by Jeffrey A. Tucker entitled “The Forgetting Is Mandatory”. We have just been through World War III. It just happened to be a non-shooting war. It was a war in which the global elites waged psychological war on their populations. And as is the case in all wars, which is highlighted in this brilliant piece, we are now in the forgetting stage.
Nobody is angry anymore about what was done to them. There have been no viral Nuremberg trials. The American Reinhard Heydrich, Anthony Fauci and his band of psycho “scientists” have not been guillotined in the public square. None of the mask wearing brownshirts who were busy throwing people out of their stores have ever apologized. And yet we, the sane, are supposed to nonetheless forgive them. Forget it. Repentance comes first and then comes forgiveness. But you won’t hear this preached in the love gospel churches, where God loves us unconditionally, and unconditionally forgives us, and unconditionally saves us. Sounds great doesn’t it? Too bad it’s not in the Bible. Sorry, it’s not.
The article observes how global conflicts such as the Great War, World War II (which was in no way “Great”, but was a war of savage revenge), and lastly World War III (a war of total world domination through different means), change us and our culture dramatically from the prewar to the postwar.
The article opens: Under the cover of disease control, most nations in the world have lived through the equivalent of war – never officially declared as such and never officially ended with a peace treaty – and this has swept into place vast changes in our lives, politics, culture, and economy.
Consider the big-picture thinking. Nearly every nation in the world attempted the eradication of a respiratory pathogen that is spread through aerosols and has an animal reservoir – an ambition that any competent medical professional could have told you was insane. And they sought to achieve this great goal through maximum control of the human population. And toward this end, they exercised total control for several years.
A devastating feature of total wars in history is the loss of cultural continuity from prewar to postwar. What came before fades into memory, replaced by trauma, and then the desperate desire to forget that it ever happened and then create something new.
This is the kind of article that we need to discuss at The Tangent College on a deep philosophical level.
My hope was that The Tangent College would be a meeting place of like-minded people who had gone through the war together, shared common experiences, and would be able to bond over the tyrannies that were imposed upon them. But while I never want to forget, I find most people are busy trying to forget. They don’t want to talk about the horror of this world wide non-shooting war. Or worse yet, as in Casper, for many it didn’t significantly affect their lives – yet – and so it is easy to forget and pretend that it did not happen, and that it won’t happen again. I’m both thankful for the forgetting and fearful of it because if we forget, even passively forget, we will not fight back when it happens again. Except for the blessing of war weariness which may be our only hope.
Also, just like with 9/11, many more of our liberties have been taken from us and government/corporate alliance has grown stronger. The fascism is a monster and it will not obey.
It was characterized by an explosive shattering of how life was supposed to work. Holidays were canceled. We faced global and domestic travel restrictions. We obeyed sudden and untested protocols from anti-social distancing to masking to closures of everything, together with the turn-key socialism of multiple trillions in stimulus spending (and money printing).
Add it all together and you get less individualism, initiative, and even desire to grow in prosperity. In other words, no surprise, the dramatic collectivized response has led to a greater degree of collectivism than we have heretofore experienced. With that comes inevitable spiritual despair.
Suicide rates skyrocketed during the scamdemic, but the collective didn’t care. The collective never cares because a collective only cares about the collective itself – its own collective identity – rather than the individuals that make up the throng.
Why do I harp on the church so much? The Tangent College newsletter is different than most in that it recognizes the problem primarily lies with the people more than it is with the machinations of public policy. We have a socialistic/fascistic state because that is what the people want. The people clamor for more socialism while believing America will never be a socialistic country. Too late!! The only way to take back the country, in my view, is not with legislation, though this is also worthwhile, but it is in changing the hearts and minds of people to want liberty. In the end I see no other way. And the key to changing the hearts and minds of people is in changing their beliefs. Unless the churches wake up and start preaching liberty, Freewill, personal responsibility, sin and judgment, righteousness, Truth (NOT truth in “love” which is truth modified by “love”
, living in rather than escaping from reality, there is little hope to turn the country around.
This is most likely a losing battle. But I don’t know what else to do. – The truth is only good “for him who has ears to hear”.
The Forgetting Is Mandatory ends like this:
We dare not comply with this mandatory forgetting. We must remember, and take full account of the deception and destruction the ruling class has caused for no other reason than profits and power. Only then we can learn the right lessons and rebuild on a better foundation for the future.
The only answer is for us to stand up, and for the church to stand up, and for the pastors to stand up. You cannot “Stand up to Cancer”, but you can stand up to tyranny. If anyone of you timid pastors would get up and simply read this open letter entitled “An Open Letter to the Davos Crowd” by Robert Jenkins, as your sermon on Sunday morning, delivered with power and conviction, I guarantee you would get a standing ovation. If the people aren’t overwhelmed by shock. This is what the people want. Enough with the meaningless religious pablum. The people need to stand up and they need you pastors as leaders. In the world but not of the world.
The legislators cannot deliver liberty to the people if the people clamor for socialism. And the people clamor for socialism because that is what the churches teach – the love gospel, the social gospel, the gospel that tickles the ears but starves the soul, the gospel according to Judas.