Masks of charity?

There is a common theme coming from the mask-fascists declaring that this is a matter of charity. A matter of love toward your neighbor. A matter of coming together and uniting. I am not persuaded by these arguments. I have studied socialist and revolutionary movements to know better. But more precisely, I have studied the teachings of the Church to know better. St. Gregory of Palamas talks about the pagans stating,

"[W]e know that if they [the Hellenic writings] have something beneficial, they have obtained it from us without fully understanding it. On examination, we also understand that they give it a different meaning. And if one of the fathers says the same thing as one of these worldly men [the Hellenists], the similarity is only in words. The meanings are quite different. In fact, according to Paul, the one has the nous of Christ, while at best, the others express human reasoning." (The Triads, Bk. 1, 1.11)

So it is unsurprising to hear so many people talk about love and charity and saving lives but is this really founded in the true charity of divine agape or is it founded in the deficient human reasoning of the gods of chaos? Every revolutionary movement starts off seeking something beneficial. Every revolutionary movement is about uniting people to a common good that is for the benefit of the nation. If I may here cite a reference to the heavy metal band Blind Guardian's album Beyond the Red Mirror. Regardless of whether you think the style of music is evil or not, the storyline shows a group called "The Nine" overthrowing the old order of "The One". Many aspects of the album can seem almost political at times as the first song on the album, "The Ninth Wave" almost appears to be about the rise of an earthly dictatorship. The opening lines of "The Ninth Wave" are as follows:

(We are a nation)

I will cleanse all your thoughts

(We will wipe them out)

Now my children

(For the sake of the nation)

Let us carry on in glory

(We are a nation)

Be my fellowman!

(We will wipe them out)

Let there be light!

(For the sake of the nation)

Precious and bright

(As dark night embraces)

As dark night embraces my mind!

"The Nine" intend to usher in an era of nihilism. They intend to completely destroy the old world. "The One" is a divine figure. "The Nine" boast about how there is no real salvation. There are no gods, no one can save you. But they also go beyond a state of nihilism. It is a state that seeks to make their act of the overthrow of "The One" seem worthy. "The Nihilist rebellion and antitheism responsible for the 'death of God' give rise to the idea of the 'new age': the transformation of man himself into a god." (Fr. Seraphim Rose, Nihilism, 92) And if indeed man is a god, then he must clearly make himself worshiped as a god, no?

And this is the root of the obsession with the pandemic by our media and our political ruling class. It has become blatantly more and more obvious to those in the Resistance that the social controls implemented by our political elites have minimal, if anything, to do with actual health policies. Most of the leaders involved in making these policies have no health experience, failed health experience, or haven't even interacted with the virus on a daily basis. The pandemic has become an obsession to embrace our inner fascists without us even thinking what we've become. We cannot think what we've become because our world has fallen into the abyss. So we repeat mantras that give us the confidence that we are working toward the benefit of the human race when we are actually nose-diving toward its own detriment. We cover up our faces to hide our beauty thinking that we actually hold a godlike power to stop and slow the spread of a virus that escaped from a level 4 lab in China and state this as our "act of love" toward our fellow man.

The modernist heresy is the spiritual error that you are in control of your world. That you can control things in life. That you can control your health. The Christian belief is that these are gifts from God. Every breath of life is a gift he has given to you. Every chance of suffering is for your perfection. But to think you can control a microscopic virus is disillusionment at best, and beyond nihilism at worst. It is the status that you yourself are god and capable of stopping the inevitable from happening upon you. Our political elites sure haven't stopped the spread of any viruses with their dictats, that's for certain. What they have stopped is our love for our fellowman. Our being there for each other. Our being side-by-side with each other. They insist that those who hold these views just want everyone to die from a disease. They are disillusioned by their own anger toward the God who has given them life.

The Christian mission seeks eternity. It is one thing for one to shelter in place voluntarily. That is a noble goal if they truly believe they are doing it to save someone. It is another thing to coerce the rest of society to follow suit. To mandate that society be distanced to such an extent that we now stand tethered by mere threads holding us together and to one-by-one clip them apart from each other separating us from each other. We are "united" under their whims to a common goal but only in a fictional sense. We are separated and broken off from each other. This is where they want us to be. They have not charity.

"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." (1 Cor. 13:4-8)

If it is a "public duty" to wear a mask in public such that you are threatened with jail time or must end up in court if you aren't wearing one, then your wearing one is not actually an act of charity. It is an act of suffering. Suffering can improve charity so it is put up with but it cannot ever become an act of charity. If love truly endures all things, then it must be able to endure a virus. We are living in a world where our leaders tell us to be charitable and yet their charity cannot endure a virus. Their charity cannot endure all things. Their charity is deficient. Their charity insists on its own way. It is irritable and resentful toward those who seek to challenge it. We must pray for them and know how much we have failed to be charitable in full. We must use the suffering to improve our own charity but it cannot be said that being blindly obedient is ever an act of charity.