Revelation 3:15-17
"The _______ people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals; they give them the opportunity to carry on their depredations; and of course they do so. Is this a sign that the _______ are brutalized in their simplest human feelings, that no chord within them cries out at the sight of such deeds, that they have sunk into a fatal consciencelessness from which they will never, never awake?
It seems to be so, and will certainly be so, if the _______ does not at last start up out of his stupor, if he does not protest wherever and whenever he can against this clique of criminals, if he shows no sympathy for these hundreds of thousands of victims. He must evidence not only sympathy; no, much more: a sense of complicity in guilt. For through his apathetic behavior he gives these evil men the opportunity to act as they do; he tolerates this government which has taken upon itself such an infinitely great burden of guilt."
The White Rose, Second Leaflet, March 1942
There are a number of different governments that one can insert into the blanks above, with surprisingly little difficulty.
Although one comes instantly to mind, there are a number of very good candidates for a collusion in this fellowship of darkness.
These war crimes, these crimes against humanity, are the shame of our time.
Moral outrage is used as a weapon, to excuse greater and greater atrocities and offenses against humanity that raise a desolation of hypocrisy.
How long can we expect no reckoning, no judgement of God, no rising outrage from the rest of the world.
We have truly lost ourselves.
Today was a very boring day in the markets.
The Dollar drifted a little lower, gold and silver a little higher.
VIX is complacent.
Stocks are overvalued and mispriced for risk.
The problem is not that some people wish to give themselves over to lawlessness.
It is the larger number of people who enable them, for mostly selfish reasons.
It is going to take something significant to waken this cult of complacency.
A common story from history.
But we never see it coming in our own case.
It doesn't happen to people like us.
Have a pleasant weekend.
