Discernment

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan

Why is it that with every week that goes by we’re seeing the world spin out of control more and more? 

Well when I say what I’m about to say you critical thinkers out there are going to experience more affirmation that you’re not alone in something you already knew, or had a sense of since all the chaos began back during the pandemic. However, for all the rest of you it’s going to be a difficult pill to swallow because you’re going to probably get a sick feeling deep down in your gut with having to face the reality, but will probably choose not to face it…at least not immediately. 

If you are a critical thinker and can pay attention to the environment it’s easy to see that in the last 10 years or so that the brightest in society have been punished while the least talented people get promoted into high positions of the corporate world, media, and politics. 

This is painfully obvious when you pay attention because it completely demonstrates how we’re living out a real life enactment of Atlas Shrugged where John Galt and all the producers of society are punished by the mid-wits that run the bureaucracies and the effete intellectuals that have stumbled their way to the top of said bureaucracies which basically equates to our modern day Administrative State. 

This is precisely why I started this podcast and blog because I wanted to affirm to those who are critical thinkers (that would be you) that you’re not alone. The beauty of having new social media and messaging platforms such as Substack always popping up is because initially these platforms aren’t run by midwits and effete intellectuals…at least not for the moment. 

It’s easy to spot the platforms that are run by lesser talent because they’re always the ones silencing the more talented, outspoken, and freedom messaging individuals that exist in society. Granted many of these existing social media companies engage in censorship by burying the posts of intelligent individuals to the bottom of their platform’s relative newsfeed while they bolster those more vanilla, less outspoken for freedom, and more outspoken Marxists that toe the company line with whatever lying narrative the Administrative State Media (ASM) decides to push forward. 

In short, the less interesting, the less intelligent, and overall the less talented in society are now celebrated in the mainstream while those on the opposite end of the spectrum are having to fight to build a new ecosystem based on individuality, intellectual free thought, and meritocracy. Hence, this is why I am liking what I’m seeing here with Substack so far.   

The problem with this is that we are now battling inside a Thunderdome with the midwits and the effete intellectuals that have possession of the bigger megaphone while the rest of us are battling to pierce the veil of censorship and suppression so that our voices can break through to the masses. 

So how is it that those of us who are critical thinkers recognize this scenario while, at the same time, are working hard to battle the censorship apparatus to reach those people who are a bit slower to understand this dilemma? 

Discernment

I want to shift gears for a moment to talk about something that can give you a deeper level of understanding. 

If you’ve been a regular reader/listener to this show then you’ve probably heard me talk about discernment, or have heard me use the word before when describing circumstances of people that have the ability to use discernment in order to avoid falling victim to a lying media narrative. 

The word discernment means the ability to judge things in a wise way and to possess the ability to figure out the meaning of a situation, or narrative, that may actually be obscure and difficult to comprehend for many. 

In terms of my faith this is something that I often pray for and study as I read more into the Bible. I’m not trying to sound like I’m preaching a sermon here, but what I am saying is that if you intently study the Bible it will provide deeper meaning for you regarding the context of life for you to acquire discernment when you have to apply it to situations that may be a bit more difficult to understand at certain moments throughout your life. 

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 

In this verse it’s clear that the Bible is referencing those people who are deceitful (Satan’s servants) and they exist throughout society and will lie in order to attempt to deceive the public (you and me) on a consistent basis. 

However, this verse also points to something else that we can use to distinguish the difference between those who are trying to deceive and what the truth tellers are as the Bible here offers a metric that separates the two. 

That metric that will distinguish the difference between the truth tellers and the liars resides in their deeds. 

In other words, look at what the actions are of those who claim to be telling the truth, but are producing the real world physical result of lies. For instance, this can be seen when the media says that the border is secure, yet the deeds that back up that statement is that millions of illegal migrants are funneled into cities all across the United States and are literally overrunning huge hotels in major cities like New York. The deed doesn’t represent the statement that the borders are secure, therefore this is a major lie. Here we can exercise discernment by comparing the deeds to the statements that precede them. 

Another more recent example here can be seen when the media has told you for months that Joe Biden’s health was tip top and that he was sharper than ever to perform his duties as the occupant of the White House. Even Joe Biden himself has been stating for weeks that he wasn’t going anywhere and that he would undoubtedly be the Democratic nominee for President and in less than a week all the sudden an ambiguous document is released supposedly containing his signature on a letter of resignation and he’s currently nowhere in sight.