I at First was going to erase this piece but thought better of it. As Sun Tzu believed, to paraphrase, one must know one’s enemy to ever be able to defeat them. It is sad to me, that we as a people, have succumbed to being perpetually led into the weeded field on a merry , fruitless chase after glowing and shiny things that are only a trap of illusions to part us from ever truly understanding GOD and ourselves in HIS world.
We Have to Remain ever Vigilant against the powers of Darkness that rule mortal existence. To my mind, they are as waiting, hungry vultures who wish to literally Consume the entirety of this world.
Pray for wisdom and good judgement in the face of those who wish us all harm.
"As Sun Tzu believed, to paraphrase, one must know one’s enemy to ever be able to defeat them."
I definitely agree.
And more to the point: the interest isn't even with picking a fight with anyone, for that matter. The goal is to remove those obstacles which stand in the way of the greater Good and Truth.
In this case, the obstacles just happen to be more than a little obstinate and hella vicious lol.
It’s interesting that I end up disagreeing with you so much. We have the same subject matter that we interpret differently. In the Latin West there was only one book of Plato and that was the Timaeus. It included the musical ratios as part of the understanding of how harmony was formed from chaos, comparable to Genesis when the spirit moved over the waters, etc. So in the Latins, Platonism goes back to Calcidius commentaries in the 4th century, who translated the Greek into Latin. Boethius is also very engaged in mathematical speculations. All of this ended up in the scientific revolution, which really came from neoplatonism. The Aleister Crowley thing largely came out of Polish based Jacob Frank—a kind of metaphysical nihilsim that emphasized the descent rather than the ascent. Nearly all contemplative Neoplatonism emphasized the ascent through a method of assertions and negations, a method that goes back to Pseudo-dionysius, a 5th century Assyrian. Not to Dionysius the god of drunkenness.
I guess I'd first start by asking what you think the intention of people like Gaga (or let's be honest, the people behind her) is?
As far as Neoplatonism, there are plenty of people who take interest in it and are fine people. But I'd say that it's really like a lot of things related to the mystery schools: there's an exoteric reading and an esoteric reading.
Most of the well-meaning folks are usually keying off the exoteric reading. But I've personally seen people who were intellectually very accomplished, and then they got sucked into the Neoplatonic mysticism, and they were never the same. What used to be potent ideas turned into gobbledygook. And the problem is they were under the impression that they had ascended. That's actually how their minds were subverted. They were made to think they had spiritually transcended their earlier selves and now they had attained a new-found, higher wisdom.
In reality, there were whisperers all around who were very deliberately leading them into a maze that had no exist. Once they're in, they never usually get out. This was ultimately what Aldous Huxley envisioned with his final novel, Island. The inhabitants were under the spell of the ultimate illusion: that they had shed all their allusions and had finally transcended.
"For the radical and permanent transformation of personality only one effective method has been discovered — that of the mystics. "
I really don’t pay a lot of attention to Lady Gaga. I think the parties where they eat cake in the form of dead bodies are disgusting. But that is not Neoplatonism or Christianity. It’s probably more like Aleister Crowley, the orgies of Frankism, but I don’t know. I can’t even imagine it.
I know a lot about the occult as I am writing a book about it. I make a distinction between the Neo-Platonism of the Renaissance and the Latin Middle Ages with what you might call Neo-Platonism of the occult societies of the 17th through the 19th centuries, which were a mishmash of a lot of different things—like a warehouse of rejected knowledge. It’s important to make that distinction because they are not the same. Aleister Crowley got a lot of his ideas from Jacob Frank. I am referring to his metaphysical nihilism, which is identical to Jacob Frank. The entity he channeled has the same name as Jacob Frank’s daughter who Frank saw as equivalent to the Virgin Mary. The idea of Big Brother also came from Jacob Frank. Basically these types are Frankists. I see a lot of nihilism in the modern occult that was not there in the Christian Neoplatonists who were the opposite of nihilists. They saw nature as good, and the beauty of nature as the visible sign of the invisible God. My problem is lumping it all together. I am afraid there is something going on here…that it is deliberate attempt to discredit the Latin tradition in general. Hermeticism came with the Greek texts in the latter 15th century. It is not Neoplatonism, but quasi magical writings that are Greco-Egyptian. Jacob Frank is the key to the modern occult.
"I know a lot about the occult as I am writing a book about it."
Hmmm.
I could point out some fallacies in your comments though... but I don't know that it will make any difference.
I'll just say:
1) I've never seen anyone who's gained a better grasp of Plato or his method from reading the Neoplatonists. It's always the opposite i.e. they're more confused. Kepler, Leibniz and many other great minds cautioned those relying on "Neoplatonists" to understand the Platonic/Socratic method. They should read Plato directly. And if they're still confused after or believe Neoplatonists are just advancing and building on Plato, they need a reset. They need to go back to the drawing board and practice humility, rather than do more research or read more books. For no amount of books or research inspires a love for Truth and wisdom, which must always be the driving force.
2) You're describing an incorrect line of thinking regarding the interplay of the occult and modern science. This is part of a narrative actively being advanced to revive the mystery schools in the West, assuming you recognize the mystery schools are not just some bygone phenomena, but a very active organization in politics, philosophical discourse and the realm of ideas generally. Assuming you recognize these things involve very real political realities rather than just the subjects of books...
The argument goes that those interested in alchemy were drawn to mathematics because of their interest in unveiling the magic of nature and the universe, which involved uncovering the hidden patterns and workings of nature through number, harmony etc. As if those looking to parley with angels were ultimately informed by the same thing animating those who were making genuine discoveries in science, art etc., only directed towards different goals.
It's a very deliberate narrative and operation to obscure the origins of real science and modern civilization--the two things the mystery cults are committed to killing.
People swallowing this stuff will think, "well, if we want to get back in touch with the origins of Western civilization, we have to re-acquaint ourselves with these magical traditions and the wisdom of the mystery schools, right?! Because they were at the heart of civilization in these earlier, purer times, right?!
In reality: the bad guys are just writing the history they want people to play out.
Pretty clever, but not wise!
And herein lies the most important distinction, I reckon: wisdom vs. cleverness. How might they resemble each other and yet also be so fundamentally different?
I like this piece. The atmosphere is self-regulating. I like the thunder clap at the end of Gaga's music video. Check my archives for a video titled Abracadabra Decoded. There's is a second part to it as well.
Thank you Mat you know what they say about once you see it? Well I will do my very best to un-see it. Appreciate the revelation and do think that 'artist' as so called is one of the most talent-less of them all, can't sing a lic so when you got nothing real?! The film work is good though do you think?
Matt I so much appreciate your Exposures. But you are wrong on this one. True Gnosticism, which is not a religion, is about Duality and The True Divine Exposing Evil and all its traps and Rescuing it's own from Darkness.
Does this mean you don’t think the Old Testament should be part of Christian teaching? If you think it is part of Christian teaching, then how exactly do you square that with your first statement?
This presentation provides essential information for mankind to wake up and see through the global deception. All said and done this is all about Actual Intelligence (Real AI) v every thing artificial
Lissa Johnson, Transhumanism and Covid-19: Military Operations in Civilian Disguise?
Lady Gaga and know satanic spirit eater witch Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be says The New York Times (Published 2020). So there that. Lol. Nothing to see here, move on plebs.
Lady Gaga has been ultra woke since day one pushing trannies and perversion. Her ties to the the occult are not hidden, just being pushed to the main stream.
Get wise to the Great Replacement if you have not been paying attention to it in my podcast here:
Sorry, maybe you were just looking to plug your stuff. The piece has nothing to do with what you’re talking about… Not sure if you read it all.
The purpose of my piece was to disabuse people from some of the common misconceptions animating a lot of pop-culture criticism. One of the main problems is people have relied on a lot of these fanciful caricatures of Satanism ie the countless varieties of some dude with plastic devil horns. This obscures a lot of the more subtle aspects of today’s spiritual warfare.
None of the plastic devil horn stuff is helpful, nor is a lot of the bible thumping where some well-meaning and some just crazy folks think combatting Satanism means banging people over the head with doctrine and dogma. They’re some of the more useful tools, in terms of making the opposition to the Luciferian varieties look like unhinged fanaticism.
The Satanists understand that the way to get to people is through play. A lot of the pop music and entertainment is playful, it’s not asking people to take it too seriously, and it’s inviting them to have a good time. But that’s not crazy. Education happens through play. Everyone knows this. If you want children to truly learn, you have to make learning fun.
And leisure time is the spare time people have to cultivate themselves. That’s the time when people have their guard down, are looking to be entertained and are ultimately open to new experiences, and therefore new ideas.
When you have classical art forms and culture that invites people to genuine play on the same visceral artistic level, but with elevated content, then you actually have something to contend with. Right now, there’s a dearth of that. And I don’t think all the blame can be placed at the door of the Satanists…
As Jesus reminds us, the first people we should point the finger at is ourselves. I think the more we do that, the more clarity may emerge.
The Western populations are being replaced by non-Christians. The locals are being pushed away from Christianity because of the woke Churches. The Neo-Feudal world order requires people to not believe in individualism and freedom as a birthright, which is a gift from God. Get God out of the way and people worship the government.
Collectivism is a cult.
Left is collectivist and they do not want you to see them clearly, so they can manipulate you and your ignorance.
The real political spectrum is this:
Left is total government control;
right is no government control.
The spectrum is degrees between those two points.
The communists have distorted the language to indicate a narrow band of possible reality, the left is a communist government and the right is a fascist government ( both are big government control of the individual). By using this scale, you always pre-posed their government's bureaucratic control. University has become a communist indoctrination mill, churning out leftist cult members who go into government, banking and media et al.. The communists themselves called this the long march through the institutions. They claim Nazis were on the right, but they were socialists, which is next to communism in the actual spectrum.
See the trick.
They need God gone for this to work better. Hense the Great Replacement.
Lady Gaga means nothing to me. Pop music, as far as I'm concerned, begins and ends with the Beatles. They were not just good at what they did they were also genuinely nice people. George Martin first signed them up not because they were better than other groups but because, in his own words, they were more fun to be with!
The thing that distinguishes the best Christians is a quality of relaxedness and ease. They laugh easily. I think here particularly of Jonathan Pageau and Paul Vanderclay. That to me is what Christianity is all about. All these other people - these atheists and agnostics and humanists and rationalists and secularists - are so tensed up. That's presumably why so often they need to take drugs.
The Beatles' own guru, Maharishi, was one of the most relaxed people I've ever come across. Which is why in the end I chose him for my own teacher. He almost never stopped giggling.
Incidentally, the more relaxed you are the more creatively inspired you will become; as Keats pointed out in his 'Ode To Indolence', where one-by-one he bade goodbye to all his earlier idols. It was only after this that he was in a position to produce his greatest work: the work by which he is now remembered.
Unbridled capitalism, which is what rules absolutely in the US, could nonetheless use some reining in. Undiluted Mammon worship inflicts substantial hardship on everyone except the very few, i.e. the richest, who dictate the labor camp's program, which is nothing but hard labor throughout, culminating in pauperization and extinction, thus double ruination in the end. Personally I'd prefer conscientious types in charge, people of good character. Lycurgus forcing kings to eat with beggars and the same food too, kept the population from polarizing. It's different now though, with so many worshipping the wealthy--a consequence of much conditioning by all the powers that be, from parents up through every level of the command hierarchy. The catechism currently learned by all, declares Mammon to be the answer to Who Is God? I personally can see nothing to worship but good character and good judgment. An absolute plutocracy, which Is the current form of gov't in Amerique, strives after one thing alone: selfish profit--at everyone else's immense expense. It's a system callous to the core. When the catechism is rewritten. and says God is understanding, and that society must look after it own members; and when lucre is converted to heavy iron coins, useless for foreign exchange, the way Spartan money was, and land is distributed equally among all, cupidity will be deprived of rewards and of its drive to heap up treasure. Nobody left to show off to.
But I disapprove of killing the runts of the litter, and keeping only those judged fit for work. Hive life leaves everything to be desired, unless you're wired for dronework, and creating new sustenance is your natural vocation. "It would be better if there were nothing," to quote Einstein's favorite philosopher, so scrap all the above and set your sights on achieving only that, indeed the worthiest of all goals.
I at First was going to erase this piece but thought better of it. As Sun Tzu believed, to paraphrase, one must know one’s enemy to ever be able to defeat them. It is sad to me, that we as a people, have succumbed to being perpetually led into the weeded field on a merry , fruitless chase after glowing and shiny things that are only a trap of illusions to part us from ever truly understanding GOD and ourselves in HIS world.
We Have to Remain ever Vigilant against the powers of Darkness that rule mortal existence. To my mind, they are as waiting, hungry vultures who wish to literally Consume the entirety of this world.
Pray for wisdom and good judgement in the face of those who wish us all harm.
"As Sun Tzu believed, to paraphrase, one must know one’s enemy to ever be able to defeat them."
I definitely agree.
And more to the point: the interest isn't even with picking a fight with anyone, for that matter. The goal is to remove those obstacles which stand in the way of the greater Good and Truth.
In this case, the obstacles just happen to be more than a little obstinate and hella vicious lol.
It’s interesting that I end up disagreeing with you so much. We have the same subject matter that we interpret differently. In the Latin West there was only one book of Plato and that was the Timaeus. It included the musical ratios as part of the understanding of how harmony was formed from chaos, comparable to Genesis when the spirit moved over the waters, etc. So in the Latins, Platonism goes back to Calcidius commentaries in the 4th century, who translated the Greek into Latin. Boethius is also very engaged in mathematical speculations. All of this ended up in the scientific revolution, which really came from neoplatonism. The Aleister Crowley thing largely came out of Polish based Jacob Frank—a kind of metaphysical nihilsim that emphasized the descent rather than the ascent. Nearly all contemplative Neoplatonism emphasized the ascent through a method of assertions and negations, a method that goes back to Pseudo-dionysius, a 5th century Assyrian. Not to Dionysius the god of drunkenness.
I guess I'd first start by asking what you think the intention of people like Gaga (or let's be honest, the people behind her) is?
As far as Neoplatonism, there are plenty of people who take interest in it and are fine people. But I'd say that it's really like a lot of things related to the mystery schools: there's an exoteric reading and an esoteric reading.
Most of the well-meaning folks are usually keying off the exoteric reading. But I've personally seen people who were intellectually very accomplished, and then they got sucked into the Neoplatonic mysticism, and they were never the same. What used to be potent ideas turned into gobbledygook. And the problem is they were under the impression that they had ascended. That's actually how their minds were subverted. They were made to think they had spiritually transcended their earlier selves and now they had attained a new-found, higher wisdom.
In reality, there were whisperers all around who were very deliberately leading them into a maze that had no exist. Once they're in, they never usually get out. This was ultimately what Aldous Huxley envisioned with his final novel, Island. The inhabitants were under the spell of the ultimate illusion: that they had shed all their allusions and had finally transcended.
"For the radical and permanent transformation of personality only one effective method has been discovered — that of the mystics. "
—Aldous Huxley
More on the subject here:
https://ageofmuses.substack.com/p/meet-the-artists-behind-the-artists
https://ageofmuses.substack.com/p/slaying-mithra-self-help-human-potential
I really don’t pay a lot of attention to Lady Gaga. I think the parties where they eat cake in the form of dead bodies are disgusting. But that is not Neoplatonism or Christianity. It’s probably more like Aleister Crowley, the orgies of Frankism, but I don’t know. I can’t even imagine it.
I know a lot about the occult as I am writing a book about it. I make a distinction between the Neo-Platonism of the Renaissance and the Latin Middle Ages with what you might call Neo-Platonism of the occult societies of the 17th through the 19th centuries, which were a mishmash of a lot of different things—like a warehouse of rejected knowledge. It’s important to make that distinction because they are not the same. Aleister Crowley got a lot of his ideas from Jacob Frank. I am referring to his metaphysical nihilism, which is identical to Jacob Frank. The entity he channeled has the same name as Jacob Frank’s daughter who Frank saw as equivalent to the Virgin Mary. The idea of Big Brother also came from Jacob Frank. Basically these types are Frankists. I see a lot of nihilism in the modern occult that was not there in the Christian Neoplatonists who were the opposite of nihilists. They saw nature as good, and the beauty of nature as the visible sign of the invisible God. My problem is lumping it all together. I am afraid there is something going on here…that it is deliberate attempt to discredit the Latin tradition in general. Hermeticism came with the Greek texts in the latter 15th century. It is not Neoplatonism, but quasi magical writings that are Greco-Egyptian. Jacob Frank is the key to the modern occult.
"I know a lot about the occult as I am writing a book about it."
Hmmm.
I could point out some fallacies in your comments though... but I don't know that it will make any difference.
I'll just say:
1) I've never seen anyone who's gained a better grasp of Plato or his method from reading the Neoplatonists. It's always the opposite i.e. they're more confused. Kepler, Leibniz and many other great minds cautioned those relying on "Neoplatonists" to understand the Platonic/Socratic method. They should read Plato directly. And if they're still confused after or believe Neoplatonists are just advancing and building on Plato, they need a reset. They need to go back to the drawing board and practice humility, rather than do more research or read more books. For no amount of books or research inspires a love for Truth and wisdom, which must always be the driving force.
2) You're describing an incorrect line of thinking regarding the interplay of the occult and modern science. This is part of a narrative actively being advanced to revive the mystery schools in the West, assuming you recognize the mystery schools are not just some bygone phenomena, but a very active organization in politics, philosophical discourse and the realm of ideas generally. Assuming you recognize these things involve very real political realities rather than just the subjects of books...
The argument goes that those interested in alchemy were drawn to mathematics because of their interest in unveiling the magic of nature and the universe, which involved uncovering the hidden patterns and workings of nature through number, harmony etc. As if those looking to parley with angels were ultimately informed by the same thing animating those who were making genuine discoveries in science, art etc., only directed towards different goals.
It's a very deliberate narrative and operation to obscure the origins of real science and modern civilization--the two things the mystery cults are committed to killing.
People swallowing this stuff will think, "well, if we want to get back in touch with the origins of Western civilization, we have to re-acquaint ourselves with these magical traditions and the wisdom of the mystery schools, right?! Because they were at the heart of civilization in these earlier, purer times, right?!
In reality: the bad guys are just writing the history they want people to play out.
Pretty clever, but not wise!
And herein lies the most important distinction, I reckon: wisdom vs. cleverness. How might they resemble each other and yet also be so fundamentally different?
I like this piece. The atmosphere is self-regulating. I like the thunder clap at the end of Gaga's music video. Check my archives for a video titled Abracadabra Decoded. There's is a second part to it as well.
Thank you Mat you know what they say about once you see it? Well I will do my very best to un-see it. Appreciate the revelation and do think that 'artist' as so called is one of the most talent-less of them all, can't sing a lic so when you got nothing real?! The film work is good though do you think?
Gnosticism is a parasite.
See my reply to Sober Christian Gentleman which has inadvertently been posted in that thread when my intentions were quite otherwise.
Oh.
Matt I so much appreciate your Exposures. But you are wrong on this one. True Gnosticism, which is not a religion, is about Duality and The True Divine Exposing Evil and all its traps and Rescuing it's own from Darkness.
Lady gaga is a man. That's why he sings that he's bluffin’ with his muffin.
Judeo Christian. Is a bollocks term. I suggest leaving out the first half.
Does this mean you don’t think the Old Testament should be part of Christian teaching? If you think it is part of Christian teaching, then how exactly do you square that with your first statement?
(Just edited comment to remove typos).
This presentation provides essential information for mankind to wake up and see through the global deception. All said and done this is all about Actual Intelligence (Real AI) v every thing artificial
Lissa Johnson, Transhumanism and Covid-19: Military Operations in Civilian Disguise?
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/lissa-johnson-transhumanism-and-covid?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319&triedRedirect=true
Well, that will bring the devil in faster than one can blink. What an invitation. Seek the Lord while you still can
Lady Gaga and know satanic spirit eater witch Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be says The New York Times (Published 2020). So there that. Lol. Nothing to see here, move on plebs.
Lady Gaga has been ultra woke since day one pushing trannies and perversion. Her ties to the the occult are not hidden, just being pushed to the main stream.
Get wise to the Great Replacement if you have not been paying attention to it in my podcast here:
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/p/s2-ep-7-the-great-replacement-strategy
Sorry, maybe you were just looking to plug your stuff. The piece has nothing to do with what you’re talking about… Not sure if you read it all.
The purpose of my piece was to disabuse people from some of the common misconceptions animating a lot of pop-culture criticism. One of the main problems is people have relied on a lot of these fanciful caricatures of Satanism ie the countless varieties of some dude with plastic devil horns. This obscures a lot of the more subtle aspects of today’s spiritual warfare.
None of the plastic devil horn stuff is helpful, nor is a lot of the bible thumping where some well-meaning and some just crazy folks think combatting Satanism means banging people over the head with doctrine and dogma. They’re some of the more useful tools, in terms of making the opposition to the Luciferian varieties look like unhinged fanaticism.
The Satanists understand that the way to get to people is through play. A lot of the pop music and entertainment is playful, it’s not asking people to take it too seriously, and it’s inviting them to have a good time. But that’s not crazy. Education happens through play. Everyone knows this. If you want children to truly learn, you have to make learning fun.
And leisure time is the spare time people have to cultivate themselves. That’s the time when people have their guard down, are looking to be entertained and are ultimately open to new experiences, and therefore new ideas.
When you have classical art forms and culture that invites people to genuine play on the same visceral artistic level, but with elevated content, then you actually have something to contend with. Right now, there’s a dearth of that. And I don’t think all the blame can be placed at the door of the Satanists…
As Jesus reminds us, the first people we should point the finger at is ourselves. I think the more we do that, the more clarity may emerge.
God bless.
"The Satanists understand that the way to get to people is through play."
Once the Satanist get to people, what is their end game(s)?
Distraction? Confusion? Demoralization? Division? Destruction? - Spiritual war
Profit? Ratings? Clicks? - Financial gain
Power? - Political or other forms
Something else?
To make them in their image.
Lady Gaga was pushing Transgenderism. I explain how this is a transhuman death cult for people who are unaware in my podcast here:
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/148987736?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished%3Fsearch%3DOccult
The Western populations are being replaced by non-Christians. The locals are being pushed away from Christianity because of the woke Churches. The Neo-Feudal world order requires people to not believe in individualism and freedom as a birthright, which is a gift from God. Get God out of the way and people worship the government.
Collectivism is a cult.
Left is collectivist and they do not want you to see them clearly, so they can manipulate you and your ignorance.
The real political spectrum is this:
Left is total government control;
right is no government control.
The spectrum is degrees between those two points.
The communists have distorted the language to indicate a narrow band of possible reality, the left is a communist government and the right is a fascist government ( both are big government control of the individual). By using this scale, you always pre-posed their government's bureaucratic control. University has become a communist indoctrination mill, churning out leftist cult members who go into government, banking and media et al.. The communists themselves called this the long march through the institutions. They claim Nazis were on the right, but they were socialists, which is next to communism in the actual spectrum.
See the trick.
They need God gone for this to work better. Hense the Great Replacement.
Lady Gaga means nothing to me. Pop music, as far as I'm concerned, begins and ends with the Beatles. They were not just good at what they did they were also genuinely nice people. George Martin first signed them up not because they were better than other groups but because, in his own words, they were more fun to be with!
The thing that distinguishes the best Christians is a quality of relaxedness and ease. They laugh easily. I think here particularly of Jonathan Pageau and Paul Vanderclay. That to me is what Christianity is all about. All these other people - these atheists and agnostics and humanists and rationalists and secularists - are so tensed up. That's presumably why so often they need to take drugs.
The Beatles' own guru, Maharishi, was one of the most relaxed people I've ever come across. Which is why in the end I chose him for my own teacher. He almost never stopped giggling.
Incidentally, the more relaxed you are the more creatively inspired you will become; as Keats pointed out in his 'Ode To Indolence', where one-by-one he bade goodbye to all his earlier idols. It was only after this that he was in a position to produce his greatest work: the work by which he is now remembered.
Unbridled capitalism, which is what rules absolutely in the US, could nonetheless use some reining in. Undiluted Mammon worship inflicts substantial hardship on everyone except the very few, i.e. the richest, who dictate the labor camp's program, which is nothing but hard labor throughout, culminating in pauperization and extinction, thus double ruination in the end. Personally I'd prefer conscientious types in charge, people of good character. Lycurgus forcing kings to eat with beggars and the same food too, kept the population from polarizing. It's different now though, with so many worshipping the wealthy--a consequence of much conditioning by all the powers that be, from parents up through every level of the command hierarchy. The catechism currently learned by all, declares Mammon to be the answer to Who Is God? I personally can see nothing to worship but good character and good judgment. An absolute plutocracy, which Is the current form of gov't in Amerique, strives after one thing alone: selfish profit--at everyone else's immense expense. It's a system callous to the core. When the catechism is rewritten. and says God is understanding, and that society must look after it own members; and when lucre is converted to heavy iron coins, useless for foreign exchange, the way Spartan money was, and land is distributed equally among all, cupidity will be deprived of rewards and of its drive to heap up treasure. Nobody left to show off to.
But I disapprove of killing the runts of the litter, and keeping only those judged fit for work. Hive life leaves everything to be desired, unless you're wired for dronework, and creating new sustenance is your natural vocation. "It would be better if there were nothing," to quote Einstein's favorite philosopher, so scrap all the above and set your sights on achieving only that, indeed the worthiest of all goals.