♪ Getting closer to the bottom ♪

To be a free man who does not gotta bother with the farce of choosing his masters – this is the best situation. To be an enslaved man, who occasionally chooses in the act the least evil master, and then returns to average life – it is simply a bad but bearable situation. To be an enslaved man, whose large good is to be able to choose only between different types of humiliating evil, and who hears at all turn that choosing the right of these varieties is simply a substance of life and death – it is simply a situation proving that the bottom from which 1 can bounce must be near.

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The eventual pacification of man involves not subjecting him to an external ban on doing everything that can be done, but subjecting him to an interior ban on doing everything worth doing. In another words, this pacification involves not oppressing the possible political resistance, but dementia resulting in the inevitable spiritual lethargy.

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It should not be entirely amazing that, to the greater degree that humanity already has only caricaturely low demands on the banners, "health, prosperity, peace, security, diversity, inclusiveness, dialog and self-development", and that there are more and more chronic conflicts (from armed to cabinet), economical recessions and general intellectual deficits. The smallness and splendour of akin demands is simply a perfectly meaningful reflection of the dominance of intellectual laziness, moral cowardice and infantile complacency, that is, of everything that makes it impossible to constructively mention to any systemic challenge of a military, economic, intellectual or, above all, spiritual nature.

Referring to the classics of classics, only specified can be the results of a stubborn, chronic building of a world-wide home on sand. It is comforting to know, however, that as the home on the sand on the organization and systemic level is consistently broken down, it will increasingly appear who built the home on the stone on an individual and individual level. In another words, as all kinds of Potiomkinian illusions created over the last decades (and sometimes even centuries) are imminent and accelerated, no substance how severe this repercussions may be, they will be able to breathe out their interior freedom and their interior peace by the large P. So it is worth even throwing on the tape from these illusions and erstwhile for good to abandon the belief that the "decreet reality" will be able to escape forever from "yes" and "no" – even erstwhile it is as clear as "to be or not to be."

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If 1 says erstwhile a demoralizing thing in his ambiguity, then prudence allows him to respect it as an honest error, and justice as a reason for bringing his neighbour straight. If a individual says a akin thing twice, then prudence suggests accepting it as a witness to manifest folly, and justice as a reason for avoiding her preacher. If a individual says a akin thing 3 times and in addition ensures that 3 others repeat it, then prudence demands designation of it as an act of sick will and justice as a reason for giving it an active resistance.

Unless the evil will of what can be satisfactorily explained by stupidity should be explained by the foolishness of what can only be satisfactorily explained by evil will. After all, this first mistake can consequence in at most besides fast closure in a besieged fortress, while the second – remaining completely defenseless.

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For all kinds of secular messianism (i.e. earthly messianism, not necessarily materialistic), the key tool for preparing the ground under the "new order of the world" is war – and not just any war, but a war that consistently escalates according to the rule of motus in fine velocior. Whether the eventual goal of human efforts is to be the planet Caliphate of Mahdi, the planet kingdom of David, or the global republic of human rights and of the citizen, in the position of secular messianism, this goal can only be accomplished through a decisive political-military triumph over all his enemies or even over those who are reluctant to it.

In another words, the universal peace of unoccupied universal disaster can only be truly dreamed of by the 1 who realizes that neither the kingdom of God nor any of its "humanist" counterparts are of this world. But even specified a individual may have reasonable fears that the universal peace of “not of this world” will besides be occupied with a universal disaster, understood not as a essential means of attaining the eventual victory, but as an apparent consequence of the stubborn pushing toward the eventual abyss. specified a individual has the right to keep hope that the purity of his conscience will let him to last this catastrophe in the only crucial aspect – i.e. in the aspect of avoiding pride over good and evil. This, in turn, should be adequate to keep unwavering peace even in the face of a strong deficit of universal peace.

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski