Edwin

“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

“for who would be satisfied by a city but not by its laws?”
― Plato, A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

“If people, place, prayer and the past are the ground upon which real culture is built, many of us today would have to look at our own countries and conclude that they have no real connection to any of these. Blame the immigrants if you like—it’s always the easy option—but they didn’t strip the soul out of the nations of the West. We did. Do you think you can build your country around nothing but money and then complain when people want to come in and earn some of it themselves?”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

“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