The Gathering Darkness
We stand amid the roar of the COVID tormented shore and hold within our hands the remnants of our future.
Lament for Torn Out Pages
The crowned virus was never our king and still half the world knelt before it. It was never dangerous and still half the world feared and fled it. It held no power over us and still half the world tore out full chapters of their future and cast those pages as an offering before it.
The danger of the crowned virus was never more than an invisible notion: no more threatening than climate change or middle eastern terrorism. But just like these forbearers because it went unseen it was everywhere: in every corner, on every surface, in every breath; and it was also nowhere. It was simultaneously disease and death and neither. It was capable of anything and nothing, depending on your point of view.
Like terrorism and climate change, it was a virus of the mind.
Yossarian comes to realize that Catch-22 does not actually exist, but because the powers that be claim it does, and the world believes it does, it nevertheless has potent effects. Indeed, because it does not exist there is no way it can be repealed, undone, overthrown, or denounced. The combination of force with specious & spurious legalistic justification is one of the book's primary motifs.
—Catch 22 Synopsis
And so the future for all was splintered and shattered on the rocks of destiny over a lowly notion of danger, and all of those cast out pages, once brimming with promise and potential, are instead teaming with dread, cowardice & paralysis masquerading as virtue, and irreparable arrested development.
The deformities now written on these sacred pages cannot be unwritten, and this mournful consequence shall ripple down the corridors of time, permanently altering the future, as if this mind virus were forever spreading within the family tree of mankind.
If we fail to learn from this experience then our failure will be total as nothing good will have come from it. However, if we seize this experience as the lesson we need in order to ensure that we will never again allow this madness to occur, then maybe, just maybe, with so much at stake, we will have gained more than we’ve lost, or at least will have broken even.
As we stand amid the mass destruction propagated by the mere idea of an unseen danger, we hold our delicate future in our hands. Where will we go from here, and what will we take with us?
Yes, the world and the what might have been were conquered by an invisible idea and battling this phantom proved as fruitful as boxing shadows on the wall. But now that we know the ropes, and if we’ve managed to gain and keep the right kind of wisdom, the next time we will see it coming and we will be ready.
What ropes are those?
COVID Operation Executive Summary
The virus held no danger so to fix this flaw the script was flipped to ensure that all of the preventative measures were overflowing with harm:
The masks were designed to devitalize you mentally, physically, & spiritually.
The propaganda was programmed to wreck your mind and install the “virus”.
The lockdowns were enforced to eviscerate your economies, education, and autonomy.
The injections are intended to erase you.
All of this damage is by design: death by a thousand cuts.
The Darkness is Gathering…
…from behind masked faces where recognition of who we are is lost.
Where the air is festering with chemicals and bacteria.
Where smiles and empathy and cognition go to die.
The Darkness is Spreading…
…from the television and radio where naked lies program minds with fear and distrust.
Where the ties that bind unravel, replaced with flooding darkness at six foot intervals.
Where critical thought is drowned with panic and unmasked eyes regard all others with suspicion.
The Darkness is Rising…
…from the ruined small businesses with their desecrated store-fronts.
Where dreams turn to nightmares of bankruptcy, insolvency, and suicide.
Where hope and family fail and despair rages like wildfire.
The Darkness has arrived…
…from venom needles and toxic tests the blackness spills inside once sound bodies.
Where the light of health is sadistically splintered with pestilence and treachery.
Where warped pride refuses to acknowledge this invading hatred as anything but love.
The Darkness is Afraid…
…of the light within you and your potential to extinguish the gloom.
Of that place where courage and kindness ebb and flow in revitalizing waves.
Of your discernment shattering its lies.
Of where divide & conquer and fear hold no power.
So much emotion and truth packed into these reflections. Hard to believe we actually lived thru it, and we MUST be vigilant and head off any future satanic attempts to thwart our humanity. Prayer is essential in fighting this supernatural battle between good and evil. Most people agree there are angels but fail to understand demons need hosts and have found many willing souls to inhabit and deceive. How else do you explain this worldwide phenomenon? Seek truth. Look UP. 🙏🏼
Darkness may not be afraid, but it is certainly powerless in the face of the light of true humanity