It's the way of the world that any given hegemon adopts bad ideas as policy, once that aggregate power to the hegemon, and people then fall in line. As Eisenhower warned, this leads to powers sought and unsought, and inevitably horrors unspeakable.
It's when the hegemon begins to lose his mandate of heaven, and people begin to admit those unspeakable horrors maintain, that their minds turn to violent reaction.
One of the problems of being a conscientious objector, a nonviolent pacifist, is one's reaction is expressly to reject violence in response to the unspeakable horrors. We exercise quite effective challenges to the hegemon. There is this strange thing, then, we conscientious objectors see all the unspeakable horror all the time, work against it nonviolently, which is the only effective means, but then comes a time when the masses begin to accept the reality of the unspeakable horrors.
Most people will overlook the unspeakable horrors when times are good, for one reason is that they believe the only rational response to unspeakable horror is violence.
Think of all of the people who tried to assassinate Hitler. Each was a Hitler supporter at one time, but only when Hitler was losing did they make their attempts (Canaris is an exception to this, but he never tried.)
The awakening of the masses to the unspeakable horrors is most unwelcome to the conscientious objector, since the violence of the masses just sets everything back. Also, those who want to overthrow the system never care about making things better, they only care about being in charge.
Russian literature knows this, the Russian writers all complained the put-upon masses wanted nothing to do with the change programs of the progressives. People who actually work for a living are the ones who suffer.
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It's when the hegemon begins to lose his mandate of heaven, and people begin to admit those unspeakable horrors maintain, that their minds turn to violent reaction.
One of the problems of being a conscientious objector, a nonviolent pacifist, is one's reaction is expressly to reject violence in response to the unspeakable horrors. We exercise quite effective challenges to the hegemon. There is this strange thing, then, we conscientious objectors see all the unspeakable horror all the time, work against it nonviolently, which is the only effective means, but then comes a time when the masses begin to accept the reality of the unspeakable horrors.
Most people will overlook the unspeakable horrors when times are good, for one reason is that they believe the only rational response to unspeakable horror is violence.
Think of all of the people who tried to assassinate Hitler. Each was a Hitler supporter at one time, but only when Hitler was losing did they make their attempts (Canaris is an exception to this, but he never tried.)
The awakening of the masses to the unspeakable horrors is most unwelcome to the conscientious objector, since the violence of the masses just sets everything back. Also, those who want to overthrow the system never care about making things better, they only care about being in charge.
Russian literature knows this, the Russian writers all complained the put-upon masses wanted nothing to do with the change programs of the progressives. People who actually work for a living are the ones who suffer.
Feel Free To Email This To Three Friends.
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