Dear Dan Bongino RE: Parler

Dear Brother, I applaud the attempt at providing an alternative to the Leftist propaganda that emanates from the engines of Social Media.

But Man! You are missing the boat! We cannot overcome the propaganda by merely producing more propaganda. It is not about “owning the Libs.”

Take a page from Reagan:

State the case of your opposition, not a straw-man. Crush their case with incontrovertible facts, not opinions or differences in point of view. Present your own case without slipping into the rose-colored-glasses of nostalgia and nationalistic rhetoric. And then knock it out of the park with more incontrovertible facts.

What comes at me from Parler, incessantly, sounds more like propaganda and less like the reasoned arguments we need in order to defeat an alien worldview that seeks to destroy the very foundation upon which this country rests.

It’s not about clicks. It’s not about generating more upvotes than the next guy. It is about evangelism. We have the Truth. We must argue the Truth wherever it leads. Even, and maybe especially, when it crushes members of our own team. Right now we are playing by the Left’s rules. Those rules only work for a worldview that seeks power as the only objective. We must pursue Truth as our only objective or we will only further the objectives of our opponents.

Stand ONLY on the Truth as you can define it to the best of your ability. Let the rest of this baseless tit-for-tat argumentation go back to Hell where it came from.

Your friend in the fight, John Showalter

Socrates’ Cave

How does one think of reality? No, not the word. The state of existence where one is certain that the way things are perceived is an accurate representation of how and what they truly are. Is man capable of perceiving this kind of reality, and if not, what is it that man is perceiving in relation to the act of living?

For in much wisdom is much vexation,
and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Socrates put forth an idea that man may be experiencing life only as a reflection of reality, seeing the shadows of reality  being cast upon a cave wall, but never venturing beyond the cave to experience the actual cause of the shadows that dance on the wall.

Socrates hit upon something that perplexes man to this day. We are careful and precise to measure and analyze the shadows cast upon the wall, but no matter how excellent becomes our science of analyzing shadows, it brings us no closer to seeing reality.

So many basic questions elude us:

Of this Universe, inside the cave, nothing is eternal. The properties of matter and energy in Thermodynamics tell us that matter and energy are not self-existent. Meanwhile, man sets in his cave pondering the shadows while failing to recognize the possibility of anything beyond the shadows that he sees.

Of this Universe, inside the cave, every effect has a cause, nothing is self-created. Self-creation is logically impossible, something would have to exist before it existed in order to be self-created. And man peers deeper into the cave looking for answers from the shadows that cannot be found there.

Of this Universe, inside the cave, the knowledge of good and evil cannot be discerned. Man can express happiness and sadness, as these are internal states of mind that are present inside the cave. But good and evil are not states of mind, they are states of being. As such, they exist. Yet from inside the cave and through the shadows we cannot define what is good and what is evil by clear scientific analysis of the shadows.

But of course, man is the measure of all that there is, and there is no more.