Yesterday I put forth the perspective that evil hides in the shadows, in the chaos, while it diverts and distracts enough to move its ultimate clandestine agenda onward. This is as true of a law for demons as it is for termites in a house. The devil, until recently, only rarely arrived with a pitchfork and horns.

Until recently.

Covid-19 provides a vivid micro for the macro message I offer today—a message that, as always, is about hope in a human story that at times seems destined for Sodom and Gomorrah.

As anyone can recall, there was a definite pattern of fear and calm, a cycle explored in the documentary Mass Psychosis: How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill. Periodically, after stretches of dramatic music and news anchors insisting everyone on planet Earth was dying (despite our very different personal experiences), there would come a stretch of hope, of calm, the shouting voices and dun-dun-dunnnn music exiting stage left.

Psychologically, this is the best way to brainwash humans. It’s the pattern itself that leads lambs to the slaughter, not just the isolated stretches of fear. Throw people the chance to go to a ballgame or a concert—or even Walmart for a change of underwear—in the midst of the fear drops, and you’ll keep them docile. If you’ve ever dated a narcissist, you know the pattern exactly. It is in those moments of hope that we find reason to stay and invite back the soul-sucking disaster. It’s Stockholm Syndrome, pure and simple.

That’s Covid-19 and its aftermath in a nutshell.

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The Narrative of Hope—in God

Giving humans false hope keeps them from outright revolting and making real, lasting change for the good. The hope I work to ignite is different: it is for mass change toward the good, in God, not in man, mammon, or devil.

Before the last ten years, few of us would have recognized the pattern so clearly. It was supposed to move slowly, the chaos contained, the villains hidden.

But everything sped up.

“Operation Warp Speed” is the most obvious example. Lockdowns were meant to drag on far longer, but the acceleration of the “vaccine”—or, more importantly, the story that there was a vaccine—forced a quicker move than the impious players intended. You may have heard Trump and General Flynn say the plan was eight years of Obama and eight years of Clinton. They never thought she would lose.

Acceleration creates chaos, chaos creates exposure, exposure creates recognition, awakening, and ultimately change.

One optimistic read of Trump’s touting of Warp Speed—given his love of the weave and double entendre—is that he wasn’t lying when he said it saved “meelions and meelions” of lives. It wasn’t the not-really-a-vaccine that saved them; it was the speeding up and spotlighting of the narrative, the 40,000-foot view that slowed everything down just enough for people to see it.

(As an aside: I both support Trump and don’t fully trust him. I freckle my work with this stance and will continue to do so. He has given us a chance to see, and I’m grateful. But my ultimate trust remains in Christ alone—especially having been taught by a Catholic mother and grandmother about the coming deception of Antichrist.)

Covid is just one micro of many that reveals Gospel-inspired patterns going back to Old Testament times. It’s good to remember the old saying: “The devil is in the details.” Think of the narcissistic lover with an elaborate story at the ready when caught—“No way she could make all that up”—until you realize the person serving you coffee with a smile is precisely the one who did.

Now that we’re out of those cycles—not just from the Mockingbird media but from Trump’s team as well—have you noticed no one’s talking anymore about the December bill, Mike Johnson, or the H1B controversy? Issues that, at the time, felt like they’d tear America or at least MAGA apart? The same will likely happen with the Canada and Greenland talk. These stories flare, incite chaos, spark conversation across the map, and then fade—deployed, I believe, precisely to let truth rise from the ashes.

Teleology

To make sense of this, we’re dealing with the Art of War and game theory, played for decades by whatever good and evil forces exist. The good side—wherever that intelligent design lies—is reverse-engineering the Hegelian Dialectic imposed on us, making us till the soil, retrace our steps like Simba back to the crux of his cowardice. The chaos is accelerated in a way that helps us see, a cleansing kind that rids us of the hyenas and Scars who have kept us wounded.

This brings us to teleology, the philosophy of purpose found in Plato, Aristotle, and St Thomas Aquinas.

From Wikipedia:

In Western philosophy, the term and concept of teleology originated in the writings of Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle’s ‘four causes’ give special place to the telos or “final cause” of each thing. In this, he followed Plato in seeing purpose in both human and nonhuman nature.”

In other words, an acorn’s telos or “final cause” is to become an oak tree, so everything it does as it grows is to fulfill that end. There is an intrinsic purpose to everything about it.

On a personal spiritual level, if you are a true person of faith, your telos is to spend eternity in heaven, so everything you are and do should be intrinsically geared toward that end. What may seem a disconnected component of your life is actually intrinsic to the end as well, like my writing of “political” articles because at my core I am working to honor God by spreading the truth as I see it. I hope I am honoring him and will be in heaven with him some day because of my good, honest, servant-like work in this war we are in.

Heaven is my telos.

And a note from Aquinas’s perspective himself:

Aquinas observed that natural objects/beings do not behave randomly, but moved towards a certain goal or purpose (end/telos).

We can observe that things act ‘always, or nearly always’ in the same way to ‘obtain the best result’, meaning to attain their purpose.

The idea is that things we observe in the world are goal-directed. For example, flowers can move in alignment with the sun throughout the day to get more sunlight. An acorn can grow into an oak tree. Water falls as rain and then evaporates as part of the water-cycle. The planets orbit the Sun. Everywhere we look, Aquinas wants us to notice that objects do not behave randomly but with regularity in a goal-directed way. This shows that it is not mere chance that objects behave in this way.

However, things in the world cannot have directed themselves towards their end. This is because they are either non-intelligent or insufficiently intelligent. Such things cannot move towards an end unless directed by a being which does have intelligence. A thing cannot reliably move with a purpose unless an intelligent being had that purpose in mind and directed its behaviour….

God’s ability to direct the behaviour of things in the world is of a much greater type than our ability, however. God directs the behaviour of objects by creating natural laws which govern and regulate the behaviour of all objects by directing them towards the end that God has in mind for them.

Just as an archer has the power to make an arrow goal-directed, God has the power to make everything in the world goal-directed. So, there must be an archer for the arrow of the universe, which must be a God.
P1: The behaviour of objects is goal-directed towards an end, because they follow natural laws.
P2: Natural laws cannot have been created by objects themselves, since they are non-intelligent or insufficiently intelligent.
C1: Natural laws must have an intelligent designer. ‘That thing we call God.’

If you believe God had a hand in saving Trump’s life on July 13th, do you think he stopped there in the plot, the design, the story he is writing?

This goes beyond Left and Right commentators vying for narrative supremacy. Even MAGA, in the end, is a construct being torn apart in these rapid cycles to reveal clearer truths. There are legions of Trump supporters who sense truth goes beyond any movement or man.

Acceleration = exposure.

Exposure = awakening.

Awakening = revolution—not necessarily with gun or sword, but with word of mouth, mind, and soul.

The stories we’re telling each other now rise not in spite of the chaos, but because of it—because it’s happening so quickly our minds are forced to make sense of it. This chaos can work on two levels: one that looks like hell, and the same fire that cleanses like purgatory, ridding us, at least for the next hundred years, of the predators who have kept us bound.

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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.