If you buy into the premise that the Hegelian Dialectic (thesis, reaction, antithesis) is what is behind the infestation, real or imagined, of the latest of viral infections coming out of China (COVID-19), then we are in the middle of the reaction phase, which is powered by embellishment. This will be followed by antithesis, i.e. the solution.
Perhaps it is difficult to convince people that man-made viruses, deliberately released into a civilization of people, is possible. Consider something that might be easier to understand. We should know that the love of money is the root of ALL evil. We should also know that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet). But how to put that in terms that most might understand presents a challenge.
If we look at just one sporting event that takes place in the United States, and try to imagine the amount of money that can be made or lost (we are talking millions if not billions of dollars) corruption has to be part of the Super Bowl. Those with the greatest investments are also those with the greatest amount to lose and often the ones that wield the most power and control. Nobody wants to lose that kind of money and control.
Try to imagine what would happen if the Super Bowl was cancelled. Is it even possible to fathom the extent of the fallout? Yes, the money aspect of the game would be lost but what of the extenuating consequences? Think of the economic chain reaction and the changes and shifting of power and control at all levels. Impossible, isn’t it?
Now, is it possible to begin to understand the total chain reaction of when a disease becomes a pandemic?
This morning I was reading Richard Fernandez’s article, “The Virus that Changed the World.” He writes that in China, COVID-19, “is devouring the entire Chinese medical system.” All normal health care is being stopped in preference of only treating COVID-19-infected patients. Think of that statement and try to imagine the loss of all “normal” healthcare treatments. Chaos!
Wretchard quotes the LATimes as to the pending power struggles that could “fatally rock” the Iranian government: “With public trust plummeting around the government cover-up in January of accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet, the government’s handling of the virus outbreak is a critical test not only for its healthcare industry but also for its political legitimacy…”
Glancing into possible problems within the European Union, we see that the EU is already rocking from their own created problems, i.e. terrorism and open borders immigration. With a viral pandemic standing on the doorstep, their open borders policy surely will take on attacks from those who will blame a viral outbreak on uncontrolled immigration. Can we consider the ramifications on existing governmental policies should the masses demand closing the borders?
When we ponder what might take place in the United States, the complications can turn catastrophic. When we see a dysfunctional and insane federal government being torn apart by rabid Leftists doing anything they can to destroy Donald Trump, already we see them blaming him for COVID-19 cases showing up in places within our own borders.
With an economy that’s dependent upon the Stock Market, we already are seeing fallout – some of it real and some imagined. With real supply chain disruptions and fickle emotionalism, the Market becomes volatile and unpredictable. Wretchard shares that a destroyed Stock Market could spell doom for Trump’s campaign…something the Democrats would be eager to foment just to bring him down. Think of their insanity. At what lengths are they actually willing to go?
Wretchard suggests that perhaps Bernie Sanders “free-everything” campaign promises would atrophy because a pandemic would leave him nothing left to give away.
Consider, if you can, that we are firmly imprisoned in a global economy – a one world government. If a pandemic became big enough, might it cause some governments to begin closing their borders and shrink back into a more provincial existence, doing all that they can to isolate themselves from the infected outside world? This would be a giant contraction that, should it happen quickly, economies wouldn’t have time to adjust. Chaos would ensue.
Because countries like China have become so centralized, look at what they have done since this viral outbreak. They have quarantined millions of people. Shut off their connection with the rest of the world and probably many more things we don’t know about.
In a world where it appears more and more governments are working harder at centralized governments, what might be in store to those of us who will become the victims?
Fernandez describes it this way: “Like applications on your smart phone, each has to be separated from the others by standard interfaces so that corruption in one does not destroy them all. That is the future political parties must envision instead of rehashing Marxist manifestos from the early 20th century.”
We cannot and we choose not to consider all these things. We cannot because the embellishment, the “reaction phase” of Hegel’s Dialectic, is laced with fear mongering. A scared mind is incapable of rational thought. We then become helpless victims stricken with fear willing to silently acquiesce into submission. We choose not because doing so takes us outside of our comfort zones.
There is an even more sinister plot to consider. In 2005, Comrade Chi Haotian, the Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission, delivered a speech to his top officers and generals. The foundation of his speech was based on the prospects that within China, they do not and will not have the needed resource in which to sustain themselves. The Comrade suggested what would become necessary: “It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the CCP leads the world. We, as revolutionary humanitarians, do not want deaths, But if history confronts us with a choice between deaths of Chinese and those of Americans, we’d have to pick the latter, as, for us, it is more important to safeguard the lives of the Chinese people and the life of our Party. The last problem I want to talk about is of firmly seizing the preparations for military battle. The central committee believes, as long as we resolve the United States problem at one blow, our domestic problems will all be readily solved. Therefore, our military battle preparation appears to aim at Taiwan, but in fact is aimed at the United States, and the preparation is far beyond the scope of attacking aircraft carriers or satellites. Marxism pointed out that violence is the midwife for the birth of the new society. Therefore war is the midwife for the birth of China’s century.”
I’ll leave any conclusions of this to the readers, except to ask, “Is it then troubling when we consider the origins of all the latest disease threats?
In the last paragraph of the article I have linked to, the author writes what I might consider the most important statement found in the entire article: “Bad as it is, it’s not the coronavirus we should worry about so as much as what might come after it.”
It is the antithesis, the solution, to the created chaos that should worry us the most. The Hegelian Dialectic is designed specifically to foment a desired result. When a society is not completely in submission to an authority, such that an authority cannot cast their will unchallenged upon the masses, tactics must be used (thesis, reaction, antithesis) to bring the people to a point they are seeking a solution. And thus, “Bad as it is, it’s not the coronavirus we should worry about so much as what might [WILL] come after it.”
What will come after it? I don’t know what will happen in this world. I don’t have any way of seeing into the immediate future beyond what the Scriptures tell us. I do know that we are living in the Last Days. I know that Satan’s rule in this earth is nearly over. He’s not going down without a fight. He is ultimately behind all of this chaos. We have an option. We can turn our backs on all those things Satan, and thus man, have created and place our focus on the Almighty EL. Belief that the Almighty EL sent His son, EmanuEL, to enter the rigged Beast System we are prisoners in, to atone for our sins, converting our tricked existence into one of putting both eyes on Christ the Redeemer, and none of this stuff will we have to worry about.
Think about it. Then do something about it.
