"God will send them a deceiving power so that they may believe the lie, that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in their lawlessness."
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12
"Once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. As soon as men know they that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
"Satan has been in the Heaven of Heavens and in the abyss of Hell, and surveyed all that lies between them, and in that whole immensity has found only one thing that interests Satan. Satan’s monomaniac concern with himself and his supposed rights and wrongs is a necessity of the Satanic predicament. He has wished to ‘be himself’, and to be in himself and for himself, and his wish has been granted. The Hell he carries with him is, in one sense, a Hell of infinite boredom."
C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost, 1942
"Great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid, it must also be compellingly simple and at the same time absolute. The ideology of genocide is all of those things.”
Philip Gourevitch, Tomorrow We Will Be Killed, 1998
“Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.”
Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudon, 1952
"Those who have faith had better keep in the state of grace, and those who have neither had better find out what they mean, for in the coming age there will be only one way to stop your trembling knees, and that will be to get down on them and pray. The most important problem in the world today is your soul, for that is what the struggle is about."
Fulton J. Sheen, The Day of the Beast, 1947
You have accepted things, things that your father and mother could not even have imagined.
Stocks were dodgy again today.
I think it will continue to be like this for some time.
The market wants to revalue lower, but Trump and Bessent see it as an important symbol of their administration.
This is a recipe for a bone-crunching correction.
Gold and silver bounced.
There will be an option expiration on Friday.
The US State of the Union meeting will be next Tuesday.
This will weigh heavily on all those things that the administration can control, for now.
An attack in force on Iran will likely be viewed in retrospect as a similar poor decision as Operation Barbarossa.
The thought processes in both are strikingly similar.
Have a pleasant evening.
