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There is great wisdom here and back 40-50 years ago he expressed ideas that I cannot express so eloquently.
Please listen!
Alan Watts - The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Alan Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a well-known British philosopher, writer and speaker, best known for his interpretation of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences. He left behind more than 25 books and an audio library of nearly 400 talks, which are still in great demand.
The diagnosis may, in part, be true but the sin is in wanting to tear everything down.
A socialist calls into the Sean Hannity Show
This was discussed in great detail by the Tru News team.
A socialist who called himself "Dave" called into the Shaun Hannity Show being hosted by 'Rose Unplugged' saying that there is a Great Reset which is going to wipe the Republican away and replace it with a New Order.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1090346434757519
Unlike the young people of Antifa this man was older and quite coherent and clear in his message.
He alluded to having had a seminal experience which changed his old views and opined that 200+ years of the American Republic was nothing but crony capitalism.
The Tru News team had some sympathy towards those things that motivated him - the endless wars and warmongering - and referred to Sean Hannity as one of the prime cheerleaders as well as crony capitalism.
These are things (crony capitalism and war) that I oppose myself with every fibre of my being.
However, the answer is not, and not has been, trying to tear down the Old and create the New.
I can almost guarantee that the Revolution (or the "Great Reset") will do what all revolutions before it have done: it will eat its own children, like the Antifa thugs and its intellectual proponents like "Dave"
Tru News give a biblical interpretation of things but I think that Alan Watts back in the 1970's gave an interpretation that speaks to me ; we cannot create something better because we never understand the complexity and we do not know the implications of what we are doing.
Nothing makes this clearer than the trajectory that humanity seems to be on and that is brought out by 'Dave'.
This can be seen in the revolutionary changes of the 19th and 20th century which brought little else than genocide and replaced the Old Order with something worse (much worse) than what was replaced.
I always end up coming back to Alexander Solzhenitsyn (and I have to say that I had a similar attitude in my youth as the older Dave, including towards Solzhenitsyn himself - but I have long repented of that).
Nobody knows more about Evil than Solzhenitsyn and yet he was able to say the following:
