Celebrating the Small, Select Group that Withstood All of It
Gideon's Army - On choosing, and being chosen: masterpiece by John Carter
John Carter’s piece, “Gideon’s Army” was so good I had to do a video reading of it
If you survived the war waged on us these last three years, this piece will lift your spirits. I recommend reading it yourself, but because I know that many people prefer videos or audios to reading, I made a video for them. Audio here.
And for those who don’t mind hearing the Bible quoted, here’s a longer reading that includes the Bible passage about Gideon:
And in case YouTube censors the video, a backup copy is here:
My favorite quotes include:
It’s been a rough few years.
With zero warning outside of those few of us who lurk on the chans to monitor the Internet’s id, the planet locked down under threat of an unprecedented pandemic.
We all know what happened. I won’t re-litigate it here. It’s almost boring to talk about it now. We all know that it was all fake and ghey, the mother of all psychological operations. The world was shut down, and we were imprisoned in our domiciles – in some cases literally, in most cases as a fait accompli as everywhere worth going had been locked up and wrapped with caution tape. Socially distanced in solitary confinement, our devices were used to feed an unending doomscroll of panic porn into our optical nerves, shutting down our neocortices and leaving us at the mercy of the nudge units and behavioural insight teams yanking on our lizard brains in service of a global criminal network of would-be technodeities with man boobs and terrible fashion sense.
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re in that small, select group that withstood all of it.
You resisted the propaganda telling you to be afraid of the virus, and you went outside.
You shrugged off the social pressure to wear a mask everywhere you went, and breathed freely, and smiled.
Most importantly, you refused the jab.
So now, here you are.
You’ve been tested as few have ever been tested before.
All of us have, and most of us have been found wanting. As the bad cat said, there’s no shame in failing a test with a 10% pass rate.
But there is glory in passing it, and I want you to bask in that glory for a moment, for you now stand among the elect.
Having passed through this purifying inferno, you now know your inner strength of spirit with certainty. Before this, you might have suspected, or hoped, that your soul would be made of such an adamantine alloy, but you couldn’t know.
Now you do.
Perhaps we should thank the tyrants for stealing these years from our lives; after all, they made us what we are now. Personally, I think we should thank them with gibbets and gallows, but I’m old school that way.
In any case, you’re not alone in this.
Look around at the battlefield, littered with the fallen and crowded with those kneeling in surrender, and see all those still standing proud and defiant amidst the carnage and cowardice.
Those are your brothers and sisters in Gideon’s Army now
There’s so much in this article to lift our spirit!
Rather than focus on how difficult it has been to “wake up” the sheep people, I judge we ought focus on celebrating and supporting one another in this struggle. The sheep will follow the winners.
Celebrating the Small, Select Group that Withstood All of It
Dude. Thank you very much for doing this!
Wonderful stuff, and a very good idea. I think you are spot on focusing on the good, and where and who we want to be. Let others follow or not, but we can decide to make our own future.