Shaking Hands With The Devil EP32 : Monologue
An interesting thing happened the other night while John Henry and I were recording this episode. Right as we were ending our conversation, a listener sent me this video from a mass shooting that had just happened that evening in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. What made it interesting for us, is that John Henry and I had decided to focus our attention for that show on the New York subway shooting and the FBI and DOJ's failures. Then, another horrific shooting occurs, and we have cell phone footage dropped in our lap, from inside of the building that the shooters were apparently targeting.
For those of us that follow these sort of issues, mass shootings like this occur often in parts around the country. Hell, the city of Chicago is known worldwide for them. You are more likely to be shot in a city run by Democrats and even shitty fact checks have to admit it, and make excuses for it, but when it comes to policy in this country, it is the gun policies of those cities that sticks out when you see the most draconian measures resulting in the worst gun violence. And that, is the pattern we always see, when it comes to government involvement.
We could spend the next few moments exploring gun violence, policy, and the constitution but you can hit up Liberty Conspiracy and Gard Goldsmith will have something for you there, but I wanted to focus on something even more ubiquitous this time...I want to talk about death.
For those of you that have been listening for awhile, you know that John Henry and I are huge metalheads. This past week I found myself listening to a bit of the new Meshuggah but I have really been enjoying the new Mastodon album. Particularly the track called Sickle and Peace, of which the chorus's lyrics are
“Death comes and brings with him sickle and peace
Shelter from storms come with long flowing robes”
I'm sure there are many ways one can interpret those words but I think they explain beautifully what our voices at The New Prisoners and many others in The Liberty Movement, like the aforementioned Gard Goldsmith, have been saying: When we ask for the governments protection we will most certainly create other issues that will cause us harm. Maybe even ones greater than the problem that we asked them to fix in the first place.
See the pattern? Cuz we do. There really isn't a political issue one can raise that doesn't show an instance where the government's intervention doesn't cause an equal or opposite effect. This isn't even exclusive to government though. It can be applied to health from medicine to behavioral therapies. It can be seen in environmental issues like the use of species to solve one problem but become invasive or outlawing slash and burn practices that look primitive to the masses but their banning actually results in more forest fires.
You see, the problem is man made. Our interventions will always create ripples that we cannot control, because we are not the water but the stones dropped into it. Every breathe, every second, every synapse and every fraction even much smaller can create a ripple that effects all of that around us. Good, bad, indifferent but we are always creating new ripples in time. Our obsession on controlling them, after the fact, may be a sign of our guilt as a culture. Guilt for our hypocrisy and the death that we have caused. One that we can't even put a number on.
Case in point, I asked Gard the other day on Twitter “If the U.S. government had to pay a financial penalty for every unborn life it has terminated, how big would the tab be?”
Our friend Krypto Man chimed in and said “Probably at least the size of the US government's debt.”
And I responded by saying “A large sum indeed my friend. That would have to be the 1st installment because that's just what they spend causing all the death and destruction.”
We're all paying the tab. One way or another. The suffering in our countries from the violence I spoke of at the beginning here to inflation. We are paying for the sins of our representative government. The fortunate thing about life and the constant creation of ripples, is that we have the free will to choose how we strike the water sometimes. It's not an exact science and even the best divers in the world can tell, you if they're not dead from myocarditis in the next few years but I digress, when we make the decision to act, we have the ability to judge from past experiences how to make less of an impact or more. We can choose to make gentle rings that slowly rock a baby to sleep or we can be the fat guy emptying out the pool with a canonball. Government is that fat guy, and he ain't ever gonna be the diver Florian Dagoury was, no matter how much practice we give it.
I guess my point with death is, that during life we can change how we finally meet it and those around us each moment. I want all of you listening to this to make a conscious effort to control your own ripples in time, not some government bureaucrat or anyone else for that matter. If we can all focus individually, on the results of our actions and the harm they cause, the consciousness of that negative effect, that evil, will surely affect the choices of those in tune with something higher. But regardless of who sees or feels that effect, it is a responsibility of those who do, to accept the message and to straighten out their body and soul so that all the others sitting poolside can see how its done when its our turn to take the dive.