Out From The Shadows: Could Christian Nationalism Be The Antidote to Globalist Tyranny?

An excerpt from the written article:

In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, Socrates paints a striking portrait of people chained from birth deep in a cave by the neck and legs so that they can only see the dark wall inside the cave. Consequently, they only “know” the shadows cast by firelight behind them on the blackened wall of the cave. There are others: unchained “puppet masters”, who manipulate their manacled prisoners. Some puppet masters carry objects, such as a sword, between the fire and their captives and utter the word “sword” when its shadow flits across the rear wall of the cave. Since those in bondage never see an actual sword, they come to associate the word “sword” with the apparition projected upon the black cave walls.

The same is true for all objects; thus, they do not even know what their own words mean. The word “sword” actually means a sharpened metallic weapon, but the prisoners imagine it is a fleeting shadow dancing across the cave wall. Conditioned from birth in this way, the prisoners do not even realize that they are in a cave nor have any concept of what a cave is. They therefore cannot conceive that they are prisoners in a captive reality. Their “reality” is an insubstantial parade of shadows dancing before their eyes. The “puppet masters” have kept them in a state of complete illusion about both themselves and the world.

When the antagonist, Glaucon, says that these are strange prisoners, Socrates retorts “they are like us.” We are the prisoners in the cave. The fact that Glaucon finds the image alien shows that he does not know himself. He may even think himself free, but he too is a prisoner in a cave being manipulated by puppet masters. He cannot even imagine the kind of prisoner he is, let alone the extent of his slavery. Plato’s allegory is not a strange fancy. It is meant to describe the human condition. We have no idea what reality is. We do not even know the meanings of our own words. This has never been more true than it is today.

The point of Plato’s allegory is that tyranny is the rule rather than the exception. Indeed, history chronicles that tyranny is the homeostatic state of humanity. After all, Plato did not reside under Sparta’s military dictatorship, but in Athens, the inaugural democracy, populated by glorious minds such as Pericles, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and more. If even Athens in the golden age of Greece was a disguised tyranny, then tyranny itself is prevalent. It is not as though there is tyranny over there in China but we are free here in Canada. The nature of the control may differ, but the methods of authoritarianism are so diabolical that Canadians who fancy themselves fortunate citizens of the “True North Strong & Free” are so deluded that they do not even feel the chains rattling at their necks.

The WOKE puppet masters in government, big corporate, news media, social media, and Hollywood are so arrogant that if you ask too many questions (like some of us have done), you are censored, or worse. You are told what to think. You do not want to be a Covid or climate catastrophe denier, do you? That can only win you one or all of the leftist labels such as “racist”, “misogynist”, “islamophobe”, “transphobe”, “conspiracy theorist”, or “misinformant”. These terms are now equivalent to murderers and rapists in attracting public scorn. You do not want any trouble; so you announce your pronouns, you call Kaitlin Jenner a “she”, and go along to get along. You deny what you know to be true until truth itself has no meaning. It is just another shadow flickering along the wall of the cave.

We once thought we knew what a woman was, but now we have an Ontario shop teacher with 80 inch prosthetic breasts and a blond wig whose asserted right to be called a woman trumps all reason. He knows that he is not a woman, but we are still expected to all play along. Everything is play acting now. We used to know what boys and girls are (one of the great joys in life), but now we are told that boys are girls if they simply identify as such. What if someone tells us that they are a boy on MWF, but a girl every other day of the week? It is going to get awfully confusing. But perhaps that is the goal? After all, a conflated, ambivalent, mixed up peasant class is much easier to control and vulnerable to manipulation. Our sagacious puppet masters will need to sort all of this out for us, for which we must be most grateful. If the pressure to submit continues on its present course, the day may soon dawn when it is said of us what Orwell wrote of Winston in the closing sentences of “1984”:

“He had won the victory over himself:
He [now] loved Big Brother.”

So what then is the antidote to such tyranny?

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