Edwin

“Paul is consistent with his Mediterranean environment in seeing the world as full of more-than-human beings who have the ability to control humans. The nomenclature Paul uses already indicates the beginning of the shift that will lead to Christian theological taxonomies of angelology and demonology”
― Alexander Chantziantoniou, Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle

“Schopenhauer believed in the absolute determinism of the natural process and furthermore in a first cause. There is nothing to warrant either assumption. The first cause is a philosophical mythologem which is only credible when it appears in the form of the old paradox Ἓν τò πãν, as unity and multiplicity at once. The idea that the simultaneous points in the causal chains, or meridians, represent meaningful coincidences would only hold water if the first cause really were a unity. But if it were a multiplicity, which is just as likely, then Schopenhauer’s whole explanation collapses, quite apart from the fact, which we have only recently realized, that natural law possesses a merely statistical validity and thus keeps the door open to indeterminism.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“A German philologist reflected in 1954 that Nazi propaganda kept the people continuously distracted with “continuous changes and ‘crises,’” as well as the “machinations of [ . . . ] ‘national enemies,’ without and within,” leaving “no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us,” paving the way for the descent into barbarism (cited in Mayer, 2017, pp. 167–8). Similar is true today: Western propaganda barrages the population with crisis after crisis, enemy after enemy, e.g. terrorism, financial crisis, the “climate emergency,” the threat of “pandemics,” Russia/Ukraine, the specter of nuclear war, the “cost of living” crisis, Israel/Palestine, and on and on. The population does not notice the global technocratic coup gradually unfolding, or consider where it might lead and why it must therefore be put down before it is too late.”
― David Hughes, Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State

“The imposition of authority in a climate of fear is an effective model. Erich Fromm, a Jewish psychoanalyst who left Germany after the Nazis came to power, was astounded by the millions of Germans who were “as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it” (Fromm, 1942, p. 2). Ordinary Germans in 1933, without being forced, rapidly submitted to the process of Gleichschaltung, or self-imposed conformity (Epstein, 2015, p. 60; Gellately, 1991, p. 137). The social response to “Covid-19” was marked by a similarly astonishing level of voluntary conformity.”
― David Hughes, Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State