No Imagination for Evil
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A recent article in the Spectator Australia (7-8-2021) by Professor James Allan, drew attention to a person’s responsibility in the sphere:
“How do legal rules and legal obligations look similar to, and different from, moral rules and moral obligations? And in his discussion of the third of those, Hart comes down strongly on the side of the need for all of us to distinguish law and morality, the claims of the one and of the other.”
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Professor Allan has called to light the existential challenge of our time in Australia. It is a very thought provoking article in this time of SARS_COV2 societal challenge.
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As a layman, I have no expertise in the law, but like every other person (with the exception of clinical psychopaths perhaps?) I do have some personal experience of conscience and flowing from it the moral and ethical imperatives.
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This of course presents the conundrum of what is conscience and where does it come from; taking it out of the rational scientific materialism domain and lobbing it squarely, for this wayfarer, in the soul of man domain.
This of course is total baloney for the great majority of the population (95%) but it is not until faced with a real existential problem that has no obvious silver bullet fix, that these questions may start to fleetingly flash across the screen of many peoples’ minds.
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Have a read of Professor Allan’s article and see what you think.

The Wind in Time
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The freezing Covid arctic like wind has swept the rubble and dust of the wreckage of Western culture into a blizzard that is blinding the dream like fantasy of more and more for ever.
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Now, given that the culture is predominantly a product of the upper classes; people with some degree of leisure time away from the dictatorship of total work to pursue the seeking of wisdom, if desired; plus the deliberate greed driven attempt to steer it in directions beneficial to the power elite controlling huge resources dedicated to producing myths for the sheep to follow as circumstances continually change; – given that, the current frozen nature of the “Wind in Time” in Eurocentric culture is easily understood.
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And so one wonders, what has been the key feature allowing the generation of this collapse? Let me suggest that the abandonment by the ruling class, of a class demand that merit is at its core, opened the way to the rise of the five eyes of evil destroying the West: Hubris; Power Worship; Envy; Greed and Humbug.
Fragmented gangster-ism as currently evident, cannot flourish without them.
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And so, where does that leave the individual who can recognise the need for change, but where none of the current societal choices fit the need? Where does the individual find a solid enough base to stand in going the way of standing apart from the herd in their endeavour to try and effect some change for good?
Can I suggest that the reversal of Friedrich Nietzsche’s observation of the death of god in the hearts of Eurocentric people will be the only way, and for this to happen, the individual will have to find and develop a personal relationship with the divine within, albeit God understood in a very different way.
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The institutional expression of the “religious way” in the West has effectively committed suicide and so a more marginal mystical way will be needed. In Christianity, John’s gospel provides that window, if not read literally. The way ahead could be stated as God consciousness, allowing for a newly thawed Wind and Breath to flow.
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The search for how to do this is the core task for this new age. Perhaps Delphi provides a clue to start with?
The hollowness of man is where the divine enters.

Vail American Empire?
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Harvard professor Graham Allison coined the term and crusaded the idea only a few years ago, drawing insight from Thucydides diagnosis of the Peloponnesian War, and then applying that to the events leading to the First World War.
Having done so, he then presented these insight as a way, a lens through which to see the current dangers of the American Empire’s clash with the Peoples Republic of China (and its partners).
The thrust of which is that it only takes a match to be lit by a small third tier entity (e.g. Taiwan or North Korea or the American Zionist colony in Palestine) to bring the two contending behemoths into unstoppable conflict.
Seen through this lens geopolitics can be appreciated in quite a new and frightening way.
Allison gave a TED talk in 2018 which described this very well and quite succinctly. (See link below)
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Geo-politically, this post Covid-19 period seems to be even more dangerous with the American Empire becoming far more belligerent with the advent of the current Biden Administration and the seeming turning of the worm in Russia, China, and Iran moving to a more hardball response.
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All of that however in not what has been exercising the thoughts of this old pew sitter of late.
No, it is all the events in the Empire’s “Roman Centre” (Continental U.S.A.) that are starting to resemble some aspects of a Thucydides Trap.
The recent spectacle of the 2020 Presidential elections drew back the wraps from the deep divide in American culture like no other. And since last November, the internal cultural warfare seems to have grown even more virulent.
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This seems as if it could be very dangerous.
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The U.S. (A.) is an incredibly violent nation with a history of that way of being, dating back to its very beginning.
Part of that history has already seen two major internal wars.
First the revolutionary war of 1765 against the World hegemonic empire of the time (British) and the second, the American Civil War of 1861 to determine which form of economic system was to prevail.
Covid-19 has been the catalyst to tip the globalist world economic order over into a vast splitting of the haves and the have-nots, generated by that system.
It seems as if the East and West coast liberal intellectuals have become estranged from, and going into full bore battle against, the rest of the country.
In a country saturated with weapons of death this does not look pretty, particularly with the rapidly changing ethnic balances being brought about by massive flows of people coming in from Central and South America, as a result of claimed political intrigue to ensure the dominance of one political party.
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A heady combo developing.
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If this were anywhere near the mark, what might the off centre stage spark be that could set it off and continue the validity of Thucydides Trap insights?
The fallout of it for the rest of the world would make the Covid-19 pandemic itself look like child’s play.
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I don’t know what the Galilean would do about this if he were here, which is a pretty demoralising admission. It wouldn’t be inter-religious or inter-ethnic hatred, and violence.
Maybe something like taking his fight into the ivory towers of that cultural wreckage with their massive forces of militarised assault on the BEING of every human being world wide.
The five eyes it is sometimes called: Hubris, Power Worship, Envy, Greed and Humbug.
The roots of all evil.
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But alas.
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said from prison – – “The forcing of God out of the World is the disqualification of religion”. And so as per the Galilean as told in Mark’s story:
It seems as always, back to the individual to effect some change.