And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” – Christos

“We all complain of the senseless order of life, which is at variance with our being, and yet we refuse to use the unique and powerful weapon within our hands —the consciousness of Truth and its expression; but on the contrary, under the pretext of struggling with evil, we destroy the weapon, and sacrifice it to the exigencies of an imaginary conflict.” – Leo Tolstoy

The anti-globalist movement currently underway throughout the world reflects a bottom-up manifestation of growing societal discontent with globalist policies such as debt enslavement, undeclared wars by proxy, oppressive and racially disparaging drug laws, national destabilization and cultural genocide, mass surveillance, loss of due process under the law, and, most importantly, the suppression of free thought and its expression.

With this in mind, it is important to recognize that such rapid organic shifts in public opinion always begin with an individual who garners the will power to express the Truth in the face of others knowingly living in falsehood.

The freedom to express our individual opinions openly allows us to learn from one another and to see the world through each other’s eyes.  It is precisely for this reason that the founders of our great country thought it necessary to codify this freedom with the 1st amendment, a declaration so supremely important that they codified the 2nd amendment to protect the it by force of arms should it ever become threatened.

The following essay represents a distillation and modern literary adaption of the writings of Leo Tolstoy in revealing a great open secret for which we all possess within us as individuals.

With the advent of mass communication and consumerism, a global public opinion has been established as a fine moral sentiment, that it is our duty to regard one’s own local, state, and national sovereignty, along with our cultural subsistence as no longer being necessary.  And, flowing naturally from this public opinion is another, namely, that it is right and our moral duty to acquiesce to a global corporate governance (the “State”) and its control over our liberty, to subordinate ourselves to it, to serve its institutions, to give some portion of our earnings to this State in what is now called “carbon taxes”, and ultimately to consider the edicts of this State as divinely right.

And when such public opinion exists, it fuels the State’s power, which then seeks to establish a monopoly over monetary policy, an organized mechanism of administration, standing armies, compulsory schooling, various methods of control over theological and scientific institutions, as well as a corporate driven “mainstream media.”

Thus, the State’s power maintains in the people, the very public opinion which it finds necessary to preserve its own existence and there appears to be no escape from this fact.  Indeed, there would be no need for maintaining this power, if public opinion were something fixed and unchangeable.  Fortunately, public opinion is not permanent, unchangeable, or stationary; but, rather, is constantly changing and moving with the advance of humanity.  It follows then that a primary function of the State is to employ every means possible to control public opinion, because it is that which gives, or deprives, the State of its power.  While it may seem that public opinion is at present stationary, and the same today as it was ten years ago; that in relation to certain questions it merely fluctuates, but returns again — as when one political party or President replaces another; it only has that appearance when we examine merely the manifestation of public opinion which is produced artificially by the State.

But we need only step back and examine public opinion in its relation to the life of humankind to see that, as with the day or the year, it is never stagnant, but always proceeds along the way by which all humanity advances, notwithstanding delays and hesitations, like the way springtime advances by the same path as the Sun.

If it appears to us to be stationary it is because there are always some who have utilized a certain phase of public opinion for their own profit, and who, by consequence, use every effort to give it an appearance of permanence, and to conceal the manifestations of real opinion, which is already alive, though not yet perfectly expressed, in the consciousness of the people.  However, those who adhere to the outworn opinion and conceal the new one are currently the minions who support the State and its elite ruling classes, and who preach globalism as an indispensable condition of human life.  While the means of control these people have are immense and pervasive, new public opinion is constantly springing up against them and their efforts must in the end be in vain; for the old eventually falls into decrepitude while the new grows in strength.  The longer the manifestations of nascent public opinion are restrained, the more it accumulates the more inevitable and necessary it becomes, and the more energetically it will burst forth when critical mass has been reached.

And indeed, one has only to honestly contrast those fundamental principles of morality by which we purport to uphold in our social, family, and personal life, with the incongruent position we place ourselves in the name of globalism in order to see to what a degree of contradiction we have placed between our conscience and what, thanks to State influence, we regard as global public opinion.

One has only thoughtfully to examine the most ordinary demands of globalism, which are expected of us as the most simple and natural affair, in order to understand to what extent these requirements are at variance with the true public opinion we already share among those we are closest too. While we may privately regard ourselves as free, self-governed humane people, we are all experiencing greater external pressure to ignore our conscience and support the State’s influence over our personal lives, as well as the killing of innocent people with whom we have no knowledge, and towards whom we are as amicably disposed as to the rest of the world.

We all complain of the senseless order of life, which is at variance with our being, and yet we either refuse to use or are unaware of the unique and powerful weapon within our hands —the consciousness of Truth and its expression. Indeed, no feats of heroism are necessary to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen’s unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, not the perfection of aerial navigation; but simply a change in public opinion.

And to accomplish this change no exertions of the mind are needed, nor the invention of any extraordinary novelty; it is only needful that we should not succumb to the erroneous, already defunct, public opinion of the past, which the State has induced artificially; it is only needful that each individual should say what s/he really feels or thinks, or at least, not say what s/he does not believe.

And if only a small group of the people were to do so at once, of their own accord, outworn public opinion would collapse upon itself, and a new living public opinion would begin to strengthen.  And when public opinion should thus have changed without the slightest effort, the internal condition of people’s lives which so torments them would change likewise of its own accord.  One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Let people only rise above the falsehood which is instilled into them; let them refuse to say what they neither feel nor think, and at once such a revolution of all the organization of our life will take place as could not be attained by all the efforts of revolutionists during centuries even when complete power was within their hands.

If people could only believe that strength is not in force, but in truth, and not shrink from it either in word or deed, not say what they do not think, not do what they regard as foolish and as wrong!

What is of so grave importance in supporting these “wars” on terror, on drugs, on poverty, and disease; when we all know that they create to very problems for which we were told they were intended to solve?  What is of such importance in supporting international sanctions, treaties, and trade alliances, or in keeping silence when one’s own nation is falsely praised or condemned, at the expense of other nations abused and maligned; or when religious or scientific dogma are to be protected; or some false hero of peace is to be admired?

All these things seem so unimportant on a personal level. Yet, in our reframing from them, in our proving, as far as we can, the unreasonableness that is apparent to us, in this is our chief, our irresistible realization, of that unconquerable force which constitutes real genuine public opinion, that spirit of Truth, while itself advancing, moves all humanity.

The State knows this, and trembles before this force, and strives through its envy in every way it can to counteract or become possessed of it.  They know that strength is not in force, but in the action of the mind, and in its clear expression, and, therefore, they are more afraid of the expression of independent thought than of armies; hence they institute censorships, bribe the media, and monopolize the control of religion, science, and education.

But this spiritual force which moves the world eludes them; it is neither in books nor in papers; it cannot be trapped, and is always free; it is in the depths of consciousness of each individual.  The most powerful force of freedom which cannot be imprisoned is that which asserts itself in the soul of an individual when s/he is alone, in silence, and then naturally communicates his/her thoughts to a spouse, sibling, or friend; those from whom s/he would regard it as dishonest to conceal the Truth.

No amount of money, troops, organizations, wars, or revolutions will produce what the simple expression of a single individual may, on what s/he regards as just, independently of what others may think.  If only the individual will say with conviction what s/he really thinks and feels amongst thousands of people who by their acts and words attest exactly the opposite.  It would seem that he who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that everyone else, or the majority at least have been thinking and feeling the same things but without expressing them.

And that, which yesterday was the novel opinion of one individual, today becomes the general opinion of the majority.  And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of humankind begins to alter.  Whereas, at present, every individual asks him/herself, “What can I do alone against all this ocean of evil and deceit which overwhelms us? Why should I express my opinion?  Why indeed possess one? Is it not better to reflect on these misty and involved questions? Perhaps these contradictions are an inevitable condition of our existence.  And why should I struggle alone with all the evil in the world? Is it not better to go with the stream which carries me along? If anything can be done, it must be done not alone but in company with others.”

And leaving the most powerful of weapons — individual thought and its expression  which move the world, each individual employs the insanity of social conformity (“collectivism”), not noticing that every social activity is based on the very foundations against which s/he is bound to fight, and that upon entering the social activity which exists in our world every individual is obliged, if only in part, to deviate from the Truth and to make concessions which destroy the force of the powerful weapon which should assist him/her in their struggle.

It is as though an individual, who has been given a divine blade so marvelously keen that it would sever anything, should use its edge for driving in nails.

One individual does not assert the truth which s/he knows, because s/he feels himself bound to the people with whom s/he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive her/him of the profitable position by which s/he maintains his family; a third, because s/he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in the service of humankind; a fourth, because s/he does not wish to destroy old sacred traditions; a fifth, because s/he has no desire to offend people; a sixth, because the expression of the truth would arouse persecution, and disturb the excellent social activity to which s/he has devotion.

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves know in our heart is false.

If only individuals would not rely on that which has no power, and is always weakened by social forces; but would at once trust in that which is always powerful and free —  the truth and its expression!

SF Source Noble Scientist Nov 2017