12 Axioms

A break from the usual to share some observations from a real life exchange about the beast system and how to navigate the fake narratives that make up its House of Lies. 

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Ted Nasmith, The Ships of the Faithful

The Band is generally disinterested in analysis of current events. The ubiquity of lies and deception + no historical perspective from being in the middle of things + not being privy to the minds of decision-makers limits insights into the present. Time spent on news narrative is generally time wasted. And there are other observers and interpreters more suited to what value there is to be found there.  

The same people who were surprised that we exclude the histrionic degeneracy of the imbicile-fest called tv from our lives...

...were later surprised by our exclusion of all mainstream social media too. We don't even have Twitter or Facebook accounts. 

In other news, we are neither self-loathing nor inclined to lick the fingers of those that despise us either.

But the House of Lies is where modern life plays out. The Functionally Two Species model does comment on that life [click for the post]. And while the beast system of with it’s foundational lies of secular transcendence and Progress! was centuries in the making, the level of disconnect has recently hit terminal levels. From mass delusions around fake elections to fake plagues and toxic “vaccines” to the mind-numbing mix of gross ignorance and retardation around Ukraine – it’s an apotheosis of FTS-2 brainlessness and fruit-fly tier memory. To a point where it’s impossible to ignore. Even for those disinterested in current events.

There’s no point in dismantling the fake narratives.

The House of Lies has become so disconnected from reality that the entire world view of its idiot inhabitants is a grand unified liars’ club. There’s no there there – no anchor in fact to even start to try and build a truthful account on. 

Readers know enough to ignore beast blather from a collapsing empire anyhow. 

What we can do is share a few axioms drawn from observations of this rancid clown show and some attempts to explain it offline.

These don’t deal with specific lies as much as structures of the House of Lies. Because while specifics are murky and deceptive, there are identifiable patterns in how the beast system lies that let you know that a narrative isn’t even trying to get at the truth. That it’s creating a fake reality or false consciousness to serve some other end that they need to make sure you aren’t aware of. Consider that for a moment. In fact, that could be the first axiom…

1) No need for lies if the truth is beneficial 

This is the general moral bellweather and should be obvious. The truth is easy in itself. No need to concoct complex tales, stage events, devise false corroborations, get everyone on the same page, etc. Just say what happened as you understand it. Gaps in knowledge will be apparent and the story will be consistent and coherent. 

If something is going through the effort to build a fake reality and withhold the truth, it’s because it doesn’t want you to know what is really happening. In a personal case, this can be to make the liar look better. But on the institutional level, the preeminent reason is because you would object. The House of Lies purveys false realities so you comply with things that are not in your interests.

This is a particularly good illustration because it's meta-accurate. There's the deception of the anglerfish. Then there's Disney's use of colorful cartoon characters to lure children into the lies, degeneracy, and pedophilic grooming of the real beast system.

 

The vast majority of the idiot masses are so incapable of thought, devoid of memory, and dependent on external command that they can no longer even articulate their own self-interest. Where they would rather imbibe feel-good lies on the way to the abattoir than have to consider contradictions and draw conclusions. Rather rage at and cancel  revealers of the lies then the filth constructing false realities to destroy their way of life and ultimately them. There is no solution to this barring some divine intervention – FTS-2 is functionally a different species for a reason. Replacing mass fruit-fly tier memories with usable capacity is as materially unlikely as teaching the actual rabbit population physics. 

Before being compelled to a Christian reverence for life, the Band shared globalists’ conclusions about the necessity of culling the herd. Watching them virtue-signal mindless self-destructiveness, we can still understand the beast’s contempt. We just can’t condone it anymore.

The first axiom sets the moral compass on the self-interest level. We know lies serve evil on an abstract level because they deviate from alignment with reality and Logos. This simply makes it personal – the liar isn’t only violating God’s will by bearing false witness and placing their will over reality in a satanic inversion, they’re doing it to harm you directly. On every level, the House of Lies is objectively, morally evil and should be rejected by anyone who isn’t the same. And with that said, we can move to more specific tactics and techniques to watch out for.

2) If something changes, it’s no longer the same.

Beast narrative draws on assumptions based on a socio-cultural context that no longer exists. Referencing relations and conclusions from then and pretending they are applicable now. If you approach new scenarios with old thought patterns you are unaware of new threats and dangers.

It's the same place... Pay no mind to a few small changes...

Boomers are particularly susceptible to this because their world view is so simplistic and heavily imprinted, but it’s not limited to them. It applies to the entire West. Nothing about the current legal, political, economic, educational, demographic, moral, or cultural nature is the same as it was 40 years ago. We explained how keeping the word – the reference – while changing the reality fools those trapped in fake narratives in an earlier post.

Cut to the chase. If society is legally, politically, economically, educationally, demographically, morally, and culturally degraded from even a few decades ago, old observations don’t apply. At least not directly. Take “Russia”. Trying to see things through a lens of 1980s socio-cultural assumptions is not just retarded, it provides cover to the entities that are actively destroying our countries and culture. The Cold War West image of the West and the world fits contemporary globalism about as well as the 100 Years War. Less well, because it’s actually a full inversion of the Cold War narrative. There’s still a godless, amorphous, soulless tyranny attempting to crush national and personal self-determination. Except now it’s the globalist beast based in the US and  Europe but aspiring to world hegemony.

When something is proposing outdated paradigms as relevant, they’re lying. And playing along provides cover for the actual destruction they’re planning for you.

Therefore…

3) If you don’t see the larger structure, you’re in the larger structure.

Note the widespread venom now spewed towards Russian culture and people. Not the government or policy, but culture and people. We could write poetic meditations on the beauty of the Russian soul with paintings by Shishkin, Levitan, Aivazovsky and others, but who cares? The larger question is why is acceptable within the beast system to make collective character judgments for one group and not all groups? 

Roman Bozhkov, Landscape, oil on canvas, 21st century

Don't have to look at historical masters either. Contemporary Russian artists are still creating works of haunting beauty using fresh takes on old master techniques. Bozhkov's subtle lighting, atmosphere, and reflections have a poetic aura that would be at home in any era.

Now, let's generalize. Start by comparing this to the contemporary Art! that the beast offers...

Evgeny Lushpin, The Walk Home, oil on canvas, 2015

How about this guy? [Puts on Clott "never saw that one coming" Adams hat...] Could it be that the animus towards Russians is directed in part because they they favor beauty and logos over the poo-flinging trash excreted by the modern globalist "West"? 

We think we're on to something! Look at the next one...

Alexander Averin, Summertime, oil on canvas, around 2000

Turns out they can paint figures too...

The Band is not claiming that collective traits don’t exist. What we are pointing out is how beast myths of equalism and tolerance vanish when it’s politically expedient for the beast agenda. Of course the idiot masses drool along in slack-jawed outrage for as long as the glowing screens command them to. But for those who aren’t functionally retarded, blatant inconsistencies from the same source indicate they’re in the world of rhetoric, not logic. And we’ve known since ancient Greece that rhetoric is not based in truth value. 

So...

4) Why this now?

Because we don’t have fruit-fly tier memories, the Band recalls past events and compares them to the present. Looking for similarities and differences. At the same time!!! We see the same frame structure of [designated thing to be outraged by du jour] play out over and over. 

One manufactured world moral crisis after another. The Sandinistas and contras in Central America to Apartheid to Saddam to Islamic terror, etc. One mass hysteria laser pointer after another that disappears from public consciousness -if not in reality  - as soon as it exhausts its usefulness. 

Ukraine would be more of the same, only now social media amplifies and reifies mass narrative formation in way it never could before. 

What hasn’t changed is the question that really matters. If the outrage narrative – not the event but the collective mass reaction to it - is manufactured, what are the reasons for this narrative now? Consider the recent subjects of mass retardation from the disengaged and objective observer perspective.

Trump is a venal civic nationalist that would have been a moderate liberal a few decades ago [See #2].

Covid is a mild virus with a mortality profile similar to a bad flu at worst and then susceptible to robust natural immunity.

Ukraine is a sorry puppet state that harbors a variety of unsavory entities and has had the applicable Russian security issues clearly laid out for years. 

Nothing about these things is rational grounds for an all-hands-on-deck mass freak out by every institutional platform and organization. And it’s the same platforms and organizations in each case. 

This means the answer to why now is somewhere other than the nonsensical subjects of the top-down manufactured responses. All three serve the larger beast agenda - the ongoing and intentional destruction of Western economies by the neo-liberal world order under such labels as the Green New Deal, Build Back Better, or the Great Reset. Trump’s tepid civic nationalism was an obstacle and the others have used idiot fear and outrage to undermine personal and national self-determination, attack food and energy security, and curtail freedom of movement. Leading to...

5) If the reason isn’t a reason, look for the real one.

If the House of Lies – or anyone really – is offering an “explanation” for something that doesn’t actually explain it, they’re lying. There is no actual causal reason to demonize a head of state for controlling a country’s borders and strengthening the domestic economy. There is no actual causal reason to coerce and compel mass experimental genetic toxins, lockdowns, and masks for an historically insignificant viral infection. There is no actual causal reason Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine should equal $10 gas. But these self-evident lies are offered up straight-faced to justify nakedly evil globalist predation. And the idiot masses nod along.

Some "explanations" are so self-evidently untrue that no "proof" is needed. At which point, accepting and acting on them leads to our having to hypothesize that humanity is functionally two separate species.

Think a little further. There's no reason for that matter that there isn’t a North American food and energy self-sufficiency policy already implemented. Since the given reasons for these outcomes aren’t actually causes of them, the real reason is elsewhere. See #3.

6) The slippery slope is holistic. And steep.

If the socio-cultural context is changing, any meaningful reaction has to reflect that. There are two main patterns in detaching “analysis” from reality. The common one is the magical thinking that defines the whole stack of inverted secularist dogmas of the post-Enlightenment West.  Pretending what is wished for can replace what is. The other is more subtle and focused – a form of binary thinking that a lot of dumb people that think they’re clever fall into. That’s forecasting something by trying to extrapolate the consequences of one changing variable while assuming everything else stays exactly the same. 

Reality is complex and multi-faceted. Societal change occurs across an incalculable array of interlocking butterfly effects. Each status quo is a simply a momentary snapshot of this vast flow. Like a grain of sand in an landslide. Any credible projection needs to look at the entire trajectory of the last X years and then extrapolate. Not pretend that this special moment on the socio-cultural collapse train will remain frozen except for that one thing they’re fixating on.

It's sort of like planning how to keep the table from sliding on a sloping floor and thinking you're prepared...

The slippery slope is not only real, it’s holistic. And each individual line of degradation contributes to the overall mudslide. 

7) If you can’t define it, it’s an emotional projection

This applies to using words as if they were referring to what they always did while changing what they currently refer to. Consider the outdated left-right paradigm. You hear it all the time. Now define what they mean as a set of concise coherent ideologies.

We'll wait...

Conservatism isn't a coherent political philosophy because it's inherently reactive. But "conserve" does have a coherent definition. This semantic grift is the opposite of conserving a traditional social order. It literally inverts the meaning of the attitude it claims to profess.

Once you become aware of this meaning switch, you'll see it everywhere.

What does the modern “right” stand for? How about the modern “left”? How do these align with the historical associations of the terms? The answer to the last question is simple. They don’t. So there is no point in using them apart from deceptively creating a false impression. Trying to make people think something is other than what it is. Think about it. Why would anyone speaking in good faith use terms that don’t mean what they’re being used for?

Well... the entities connected to the "left" today - the globalist oligarchs and cultural atavists in the Democrat party etc. don't give a rat's ass about "labor". So we'd suppose you can learn how to call yourself something that means the opposite of what you are, but the cuckservative "right" already has that covered.

Good golly, the "American Conservative" is a disgusting smear of feces...

If something has no consistent meaning beyond a vague positive/negative resonance, what it actually means is [thing I like/don’t like], depending on which nonsense term the user identifies with emotionally. Which is as meaningful a key to understanding reality as your dinner preferences. The two primary drivers of the late-stage American empire are globalists and neoconservatives. Their opponents would be those who value free will and personal moral accountability. Actual nationalists, coherent individualists, real Christians, etc. Left and right have become meaningless nonsense terms that can't be coherently defined. That is, shorthand for unreflective emotional reaction in lieu of hard choices about reality.

The neoconservatives are intellectual descendants of Trotsky that oozed into American “conservatism” under the guise of opposing the Soviet Union. That is, extreme genocidal atavist “left” in the early-20th century usage. And the idiot cucks that welcomed them took their hated of Stalin and desire for revenge as "loving freedom" or something equally stupid. 

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1568, oil on wood, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

The globalists are related in their hatred of human dignity and spiritual potential, but don’t fit any traditionally political structure. Well, beyond the literally satanic craving of centralizing power by exerting will over reality. The impulse of Babel. 

In short, it’s metaphysical. See #13

8) Conceptual abstracts require real implementers

Metaphysics  - or ideology for that matter – frame and inform scenarios but don't materially exist as things in themselves. They're abstracts. They operate materially through material individuals and structures. This is pure ontological hierarchy - idealized abstractions lack material forms.

Theophany of Divine Love, early 13th-century illumination in the Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 1942 edition of Hildegard of Bingen's Liber Divinorum Operum, written 1163 to 1173

Metaphysics are literally not materially extant – it’s in the name.

Ideology is either a) some things someone(s) wrote in a particular context and/or b) an abstracted description of collective belief and/or action. 

None of which is capable of doing anything on it's own.

The oft-bleated “that wasn’t real Marxism” is such a retarded position because there is no real Marxism. It’s an abstraction, not a material entity. More specifically, it's a collection of poorly-written 19th-century blather that intellectually limited sociopaths apply in diverse circumstances. It has no empirically objective existence, only in the claimed motivations of actual people. That is, definitionally not true Marxism or Marxism qua Marxism. The only possible critique would be "my applicational interpretation of it is better than his is". When none of them actually are because the source texts are as idiotic as the idiots drawn to them.

Globalism is the same – a descriptor for a variety of actors who share similar power-seeking dyscivic goals. It’s an abstract construct that has to be administered and enacted by real people. And those people are sociopathic freaks who prevent organic socialization and natural social selection from doing what it always did. We are now in the later stages of dysgenic devolution akin to the old Mouse Utopia experiment. Meanwhile the freak-rulers exploit the degraded capacity and rampant appetite of the idiot masses to accrue more power. 

Ultimately the only metrics to measure "true globalism" would be socio-cultural destruction and personal or institutional power accrued. Cloaking this techno-satanism as an economic ideology simply obscures how it's the same ancient anti-human, anti-beauty, anti-God evil adapted to current technological levels.

We’ve recently lost assumed rights to open speech, bodily autonomy, association, medical privacy, due process, financial security, community, etc. The Band can remember a world where people could ride in the back of a pick-up truck. Now you can be fired for a tweet. Basic self-determination doesn't just come back without some massive reckoning. Because the increasing totalitarianism is an orchestrated macro-scale movement from individual and national sovereignty to globalist control. See #6. We’ve posted on centralization – it’s the mechanism of globalist control. But it’s administered and run by actual people. The “elites” are people. And Russia is demonstrating that they’re as susceptible to a Kinzhal missile as we are.

9) There is no collective “we”, just larger stables for the masters.

Globalism is meant to sound like reassuring group harmony, but consider the mechanisms by which uncontestable rules are imposed. Does anyone poll the group before stripping "rights" and transforming organic preferred culture? Words are meaningless without actions - we can only judge morality by actions and outcomes. By the fruits. And by the fruits, globalism in all its metastases is just a new manifestation of an old will to power. Another collectivism imposed by force by centralized sociopaths adapted to current technology and social organization. Like communism, only with digital currency flows and information control rather than industry. Plus way more overt satanism. And like any totalitarianism hiding behind the fig leaf of some collective good, it’s really a just another tyranny. Albeit it way more overtly satanic.

It's why older images of demonic tyrants are always generally applicable. The faces come and go and the labels change - communism, corporatism, etc. - but the structure doesn't. A monstrous elite tier floating parasitically on a subjugated populace. It's why ignoring what is materially happening to argue over ideological made-up words is such a sign of self-erasing retardation. 

It doesn't matter what they call themselves or what their stated motives are.

When demonic freaks blather about owning nothing and eating bugs, it explicitly doesn’t refer to them or their private enclaves.

Economically, the dissolution of national distinctions & barriers to capital flows - the two are intrinsically linked – is presented as an unexamined moral good. But in reality, actual people preside over this degradation of the human condition while reaping massive material rewards. Pretending human action is really some sort of demented offspring of Hegel’s inexorable spirit of history makes it easy to claim inevitability or draw up facile fake moralities. But there is no mass identity, only individual predators and prey in varying degrees of concert or opposition. Those who wish to actualize their God-given free will and those who wish to grind them under their heels. Anyone accruing personal power and privilege while blathering about the “greater good” or the “current year” is objectively a liar and probably a psychopath. Judge the deeds, not the words. 

10) "Ockham’s Razor" has become a tonic for Dumb People

There is at best no correlation between the simplest explanation and the truth. At best because the correlation is likely a negative one, given the complexity of the butterfly effect interactions that make up reality. 

Hiroki Sayama, Visual, organizational map of complex systems broken into seven sub-groups. 2010

Multi-component interactions across domains make up complex systems. And material reality is made up of countless interacting ones in a dizzying interplay of complexities. Dominant patterns can be detected, but monocausual linear and binary thinking are almost doomed to uselessness. Despite their "simplicity".

Take Ukraine. The liars and their lobotomized dupes have this “fighting for freedom” narrative that is definitely simplistic. It’s also so stupid that it’s actually annoying to even have to think about. Understanding the main thrust of the Ukraine situation doesn't take the number of parameters in the above chart, but it needs a heck of a lot more than slack-jawed idiocy about "freedom". Which is itself a nonsense word with a complex history of mass distortion and ontological impossibility.

Ukraine is a puppet creation of the same unaccountable unelected globalists that run the puppet juntas “Western democracies”. "Led" by a degenerate midget installed by globalist elites. Pedestalizing this turd as a hero is a perfect confluence of beast moral inversion and the functional mass retardation of FTS-2.

 

Processing complex situations with different historical roots requires a rudimentary understanding how geopolitics actually work. Some glimmer of the globalist beast system that's jacked Western society, and the role of Ukraine in their ongoing malfeasance. How narrative is engineered in the House of Lies through mass manipulation of technology, media and massive fraud. In other words, things further beyond the reach of the moral and mentally crippled masses than Tantalus' grapes.

Then there's the instant over-the-top reaction that is self-evidently orchestrated top-down. It's the mass-moron fear spell from a recent post on the functionally two species nature of modern humanity translated to faux-outrage over a country few were aware of a few months ago. Certainly not during the years of shelling civilians that ultimately helped precipitate Russian intervention.

Like the rationally inexplicably decision to illuminate degenerate cesspool San Francesco city hall. Maybe the lights look sharp glimmering off the discarded syringes and vials...

Here's a list on ongoing conflicts right now. To say nothing of the last few decades. On the surface, Ukraine should be as globally trivial as any other conflict to the fruit-fly minds of the average clod. But the absolutely hysterical reaction by every wing of the corrupt globalist narrative machine suggests otherwise. See #4, #11.

So why the orchestrated reaction? Multiple things overlapping. An existential struggle beginning between the globalist elite and the nationalist powers. Expect China to move at some point. The hysteria towards both of them – and Iran - is driven top-down by their threat to the neo-liberal world order. Russia represents the first time globalist ambition has been confronted by old-fashioned military might. Which is sufficient to explain the severity of the reaction. Governments, tech, media, etc. simply follow orders and their master is frightened. There are other things like the US bioweapon labs and so forth that add more nuance to the existential lines being drawn. To the actual globalists – see #7 & #8 - this is potentially apocalyptic. Hence the strident absurdity of the coordinated response.

Blathering about the simplest explanation guarantees getting it wrong.

1l) Public "Opinion” is Dictated

Response is coordinated. "Public reaction” is not organic. It’s orchestrated. This is far from a new observation, but recent events have made it obvious in a way it wasn't before.

Graphic from a recent post shows the process by which the fake narratives making up the House of Lies are produced by a network of narrative engineers & uptaken by a network of narrative huffers. That is, FTS-2 or the idiot masses, who then support or "stand with" their lying overseer abusers.

We were focusing on the trauma aspect of this as a hypothesis for why the masses are as emotionally and cognitively crippled as they are. But it also catches the more general process of being given "opinions" that serve the destructive ends of those giving them.

Twittter, Facebook, big media, etc. don’t reflect public opinion, they create it. And they deliver narrative content written by the same architects of the neo-liberal world order. This is where 70 years of diminishing IQ, educational degradation, and the cumulative damage of a toxic culture come in. The vast majority are so incapable of thought that they can no longer even articulate their own self-interest. There is no solution to that, and without a Christian reverence for life, there’s a dark logic to the globalist desire to cull the herd. 

It's a common misconception that the idiot masses are driven by desire for the luxe life. They may daydream of extreme wealth and privilege, but raw acquisitive greed only actively motivates a relatively small percentage of the populace. What most will sell personal, familial, and cultural health for is being able to do nothing. Passive, low-grade consumerist sloth. To sit motionless before a screen and absorb processed carbs and grease. And often intoxicants of various kinds.

Pro-tip. Ignore the fake binary they want you to get caught on and consider the aggragate.

This is partly human nature but enhanced by the meaningless nihilism of modern life. People whinge about "jobs" while enjoying material ease and comfort unimagined in past eras. The problem isn't actually that it's hard - most soft modern protoplasm have never experienced work that's hard. It's that it's meaningless. There's no tangible accomplishment. No one actually gives a rat's ass about your "report". It's socio-historic contribution is actually less than nil because the time and effort wasted on it could have been used for something worthwhile. Anything. 

But subordinating most of your waking hours to existentially irrelevant inanity in generally pathological social environments is inherently stressful. And once conditioned to meaningless stress as the norm, meaningless passivity becomes the tonic.

Imagine a meaningful existence of family and faith. Of truth, beauty, and goodness...

We do.

Body, mind, and soul are linked. The passive consumption of the lowest-frequency toxic junk isn't limited to the physical. The bag of suet that "lives" for hours of screen time is no better a steward of their mental or spiritual lives.

At least the turtles are moving and creating in a beautiful natural setting, though that alone in insufficient to break out of the House of Lies.

It's not just the obese and/or deconditioned majority. There's a segment that believes they "look after themselves" while still accepting the larger structures of the House of Lies. 

Ever-changing "health" dicta, a conga line of "self-help" and fake spiritualists... same end result as the suet bags, just with better BMI and fewer mobility issues.

Like this cheap luciferian occultism sweetened with the false promise of low-effort self-divinization. Do what thou wilt for the sloth-addicted huffers.

Disconnecting from the screens, developing anti-fragility, and back to the land self-sufficienty won't cure a terminally ill society. But it’s still better than the narrative-huffing alternative.

12) The enemy of the enemy is better than the enemy

Putin or Xi are not on the “side” of Western nationalists. Thinking in terms of two sides is part of the problem. See #9.  They are on their sides, as they should be. But they’re enemies of our enemy, and that’s significant. They’re not forcing toxic genetic “therapies” on us, or inverting human nature, or digital money and pod life in teeming failing cities ruled by psychopathic totalitarians that want us impoverished or dead. Because while material reality is a complex and multifaceted web of butterfly effects and endless agendas, abstract reality does orient around absolutes. And the one binary that matters is the moral one. Anyone opposing the beast aligns with a primal divide.

Abstract absolutes can't materially exist - see #8. They manifest more or less imperfectly through material agents. Who are themselves complex and multifaceted in ideology and motivations. Insofar as those oppose the beast, they align with our opposition to the same.

Checking the imperial designs of globalism is a net benefit, full stop. Now obviously there are many possible pathways from there in a lot of different directions. But whatever comes next will not follow the same trajectory of what was before. Because it’s also obvious that the post-War era – and perhaps the entire post-Renaissance era – of the West is ending. Best-case scenario is a lot less ease and abundance but new organic communities form. Others are less good. Who prevails in this clash of powers matters to all of us. There’s a serious difference between reality-facing groups with rival interests and satanic totalitarian atavists perched atop the food chain.

In the last of our Thomas Covenant posts, we noted how Lord Mhoram's epic clash with the forces of darkness is applicable to multi-level truths in reality. His attack is preceded by an assault on Satansfist's army by the Waynhim - an unaligned eldritch race that had no involvement in the clash up to this point. But Foul's evil is repulsive to them as well, and despite their differences from the Lords, took their shot for their own moral reasons. Mhoram seized on the unexpected distraction to sally forth and... well... look at the picture and read the post...

The point is that in the face of true evil, the non-evil, even if at cross-purposes - have common cause.

And that means...

Bonus) It’s metaphysical

Post-Enlightenment materialism is a monument to human vanity. Auto-idolatry based on the self-evident falsehood that the infinite exists within the finite and limited human minds can fully grasp the fullness of abstract absolutes. What we call secular transcendence for short. We've traced this over several years of posts showing the empirical and logical necessity of levels of reality beyond the material. We express them in the ontological hierarchy, but that’s just a graphical metaphor. The point is that the false claims of the modern world are ontologically and epistemologically false. They can’t work, which is why the system founded on them is collapsing under its own fakeness. 

This also means that people who refuse to recognize the full ontological significance of the current situation are powerless to even understand it, let alone fix it.

Samson Gabriel, The Blind leading the Blind, 21st century, oil on canvas

The fiery abyss is right. But they should be wearing masks and standing with Ukraine.

The servants of the beast certainly believe it’s a metaphysical conflict. Recurring occult rituals and symbols make that painfully obvious. The secularism and “atheism” of the de-moralized, posturing, self-fluffing lackwits is a form of spiritual unilateral disarmament. 

With sufficient perception and intelligence the larger patterns in the House of Lies can be somewhat puzzled out. But once the metaphysical angle is understood they snap into focus, no exceptional perception or intelligence required. And that’s the globalists’ uniquely sharp animus towards Christianity explained in sentence.