They Love Big Brother…
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THAT FINAL PARAGRAPH BY ORWELL is highly psychologically astute, worthy of a little commentary here. Firstly, Winston (the main character in “1984”) chiding himself for having the “misunderstanding” that Big Brother was a tyrant rather than actually being a wonderful leader is extremely perceptive. To call Winston’s perception of Big Brother as a tyrant and the state as a totalitarian regime a mere “misunderstanding” shows how depleted Winston’s discernment was. To say that one’s perception of an evil regime as evil was a “needless misunderstanding” and all that was therefore needed was a slight adjustment in his understanding is disingenuous, to say the least. It presents Big Brother as a much-misunderstood benevolent leader. To see him as anything other than that is just a little “misunderstanding”, as he had now been persuaded to believe. Talk about being gaslighted! Seeing such a state as a tyranny and its leader as a tyrant is not a “misunderstanding” at all but a wise, brave, and honest conclusion. To think otherwise is like a rich old widow thinking that the handsome confidence trickster she met in the bar and who proposed to her did so because he cares about her rather than about her money!
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WHAT IS IT IN THE HUMAN HEART which loves to bear a grudge? I assume it must be some obsession otherwise those grudges would not be clung to so avidly. Have you ever tried to dislodge a grudge in someone? It’s an almost impossible task, outside of some kind of exorcism. The more you try to uproot that spike of bitterness from grudgers, the more they will cling to it. It’s as if they have a need to bear grudges, for grudges are a form of victimhood. People bear their grudges like badges saying, “poor me”, so the world will feel sorry for them, and they can wallow in their mire of dark unjoy. Grudges are a form of hate embedded in the fabric of the soul (its freeze). Grudges are the canker sores of those who take offence with ease. Their precious little egos, when they’re slighted, make a meal out of venom and aggrievance and, begrudging conflict resolution, they would rather hide behind antagonistic zealotry than simple fruitful fellowship. People with grudges think they are indulging in justifiable resentment. But they are merely showing their pettiness and inability to forgive — if indeed there is anything really needing forgiveness, for very often grudges are based on the egocentric neuroses of the grudger rather than on any terrible evil of the one who is begrudged (which has usually been blown out of all proportion). So often, one finds that the object of the grudge is only something slight which could be annulled with just a mutual smile and a shared cup of tea, if only grudgers realised what course could set them free.
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NO DOUBT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE PHRASE, “The end of the world is nigh”, or you may have seen it written on a sandwich-board donned by a religious fundamentalist in the street. However, rather than “The end of the world is nigh”, it would be more accurate to say, “The end of this age is near”, as it has to give way to the new, when this world will be supernaturally morphed into a totally transformed new heaven and new earth (fully transfigured cosmos and hugely raised dimensionality). And so it should be. We should not want to stand in its way. The world as we know it was never meant to be the final state of this creation. This world as it is now is merely transitory — a fleeting cosmic theatre in which darkness (evil) must come to its climax so that it can all be supernaturally eradicated (as it surely will be by the Creator of this cosmos and those remaining faithful angels) when a new creation will arise out of the ashes of the old.
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False Worship or A Mirror’s Tacky Dreams
How easily we make a fleshly idol out of people,
or imaginary objects, things, and even of ourselves.
Virtually worshipping a mirror’s tacky dreams
or anything which into bogus ‘godhood’ streams.
Our lifestyles, hairstyles, beards and faces too
all lined up for worship as our love of selfness grew.
When the World Has Let You Down [song video]
LIVING-ROOM VIDEO #76: “When the World Has Let You Down”. This new song was written in a half-hour sitting yesterday, plus 2 new verses added today. It could do with some nice fiddle accompaniment. But here it is with just me and unplugged acoustic guitar. My intro in the video tells the background story (as you’ll see if you watch it) and the song contains multiple promises. So, if you ever need anything — a helping hand, a listening ear, a responsive heart, especially when the world has let you down, well, here I am, and here are the lyrics:
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“Just Leave Me Alone” (new poem)
As I minded my business in a world of my own
(I was making some notes in a park all alone
for a piece about Truth). There I was ‘in the zone’,
when some humans approached me and said,
“Oi! You! Go home!” But I was lost in my words
and my world and I did not look at them as I had
not heard. So a death-look at me they did hurl.
The Naked Troubadour 