Oh the frustration of being unable to convince another living, beathing human being of the truth that you are currently seeing! Margarart Anna Alice’s observations ring true that people have their own moments in time when illumination strikes them. The impact of the same information shared by a different person can make the difference as well.
Given these sometimes daily realities of being rebuffed by others, I wanted to share a passage from Tolstoy’s, The Kingdom of God is Within You that has been helpful to me to acknowledge certain patterns of knowledge diffusion within societies and with that to remain hopeful and patient as we continue to sow seeds and behave in ways that will eventually bear greater fruit on the population at large.
Tolstoy likens the public opinion of the larger mass of humanity to the ballast of a ship which causes it to ride deeper in the water making it more stable and less susceptable to being thrown about by wind and waves.
Stability in public opinion is likewise essential in communities as the sheep nature is easily spooked and upset by chaos and seemingly random change or disruption. Few people want convenient and settled illusions disrupted—it’s simply too anxiety producing.
Most sheep like to feel that they are in the mainstream of thinking and will only change course when an undeniable truth forces its way to the surface. This is the Social Pressure element of the Infrastructure of Belief which I discuss in my book, One Idea To Rule Them All: Reverse Engineering American Propaganda.
Here is Tolstoy…
Men do not only assimilate a truth through recognizing it by prophetic insight, or by experience of life. When the truth has become sufficiently widely diffused, men at a lower stage of development accept it all at once simply through confidence in those who have reached it by the inner spiritual way, and are applying it to life.
Every new truth, by which the order of human life is changed and humanity is advanced, is at first accepted by only a very small number of men who understand it through inner spiritual intuition. The remainder of mankind who accepted on trust the preceding truth on which the existing order is based, are always opposed to the diffusion of the new truth.
But seeing that, to begin with, men do not stand still, but are steadily advancing to a greater recognition of the truth and a closer adaptation of their life to it, and secondly, all men in varying degrees according to their age, their education, and their race are capable of understanding the new truths, at first those who are nearest to the men who have attained the new truth by spiritual intuition, slowly and one by one, but afterward more and more quickly, pass over to the new truth. Thus the number of men who accept the new truth becomes greater and greater, and the truth becomes more and more comprehensible.
And thus more confidence is aroused in the remainder, who are at a less advanced stage of capacity for understanding the truth. And it becomes easier for them to grasp it, and an increasing number accept it.
And so the movement goes on more and more quickly, and on an ever-increasing scale, like a snowball, until at last a public opinion in harmony with the new truth is created, and then the whole mass of men is carried over all at once by its momentum to the new truth and establishes a new social order in accordance with it.
Those men who accept a new truth when it has gained a certain degree of acceptance always pass over all at once in masses. They are like the ballast with which every ship is always loaded, at once to keep it upright and enable it to sail properly. If there were no ballast, the ship would not be low enough in the water, and would shift its position at the slightest change in its conditions. This ballast, which strikes one at first as superfluous and even as hindering the progress of the vessel, is really indispensable to its good navigation.
It is the same with the mass of mankind, who not individually, but always in a mass, under the influence of a new social idea pass all at once from one organization of life to another. This mass always hinders, by its inertia, frequent and rapid revolutions in the social order that have not been sufficiently proved by human experience. And it delays every truth a long while until it has stood the test of prolonged struggles, and has thoroughly permeated the consciousness of humanity.
The dark side of this point however, is the massive advantage the idea syndicate has to in essence, “surround sound” the population with THEIR stories of the world which is why I spend the majority of my time trying to explain the origins of that invisible system of control.
So the next time your neighbor shouts, “Heretic” and runs frantically in the other direction in response to your suggestion that an invisible governing structure might actually exist—Give thanks for the ballast that holds the ship of state steady…at least for the time being. In the fullness of time, he’ll move quickly to the new balance point if we— each one of us—continue to do our small part.
And even if they continue to resist an awakening, our steadfastness to the truth will eventually result in violence toward us, as the truth is universally hated by those installing this system of control. As Tolstoy relates, any use of force or even callous disregard of life, inevitably weakens their position.
The existing order is maintained, not by force, but by public opinion, the action of which is disturbed by the use of force. Consequently, the effect of using force is to disturb and to weaken the very thing it tries to maintain.
Violence toward the innocent is always a red flag to the population which is why the blood of martyrs seems to awaken human consciousness.
Fight on prophetic leaders of the sheep who are shepherds not hierlings. Do your small part with joy and don’t let the “ballast” get you down.
Margarart Anna Alice’s discussion with Hrvoje on Geopolitics and Empire substack is available here. I highly recommend them both as being wise and fearless!
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