[What can we do to stop the Woke Insanity?  We haven’t the strength!]

We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! We hope only not to stray from the herd, not to set out on our own, and risk suddenly having to make do without the white bread, the hot water heater, [the nice home in the suburbs].

[So many here on TBP call for violence as the only solution. But, is it?]

When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance, it displays on its banner and proclaims: “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!”

But violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.

And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal non-participation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!

And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.

We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think! (…) Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge!

Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.

The end.  I will now await your praises that this above is one of the best, if not THE best, thing I have ever written.  I would have to agree with you.

The real reason why this Woke Insanity persists is because we — yes, YOU and me — in one way or another, most often  via silent acquiescence (bloviating on the Internet doesn’t count) — tolerate these lies daily in our lives. “Even the most timid can take this least demanding step toward spiritual independence. If many march together on this path of passive resistance, the whole inhuman system will totter and collapse.” Do you have a better solution??

What’s to argue with all that??  Please don’t get all butt-hurt by the truth.  Can’t get more brilliant than all that.  Praise Stucky!! Except I didn’t write it. Alexander Solzhenitsyn did. Click here “LIVE NOT BY LIES”   to read the full text of one of his most brilliant speeches ever, …. and so damned apropos for Our Times (it’s not that long).

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[What can we do to stop the Woke Insanity?  We haven’t the strength!] We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. … Continue reading “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!!”
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