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Johnstone: Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Cailtin JohnstoneThe video footage that came out of Sri Lanka earlier this month has been the recurring nightmare of every ruler throughout history.
Thousands of protesters outraged by the deteriorating material conditions of the nation's economic meltdown have stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and I guarantee you the aerial footage as they poured into the building en masse has made every government leader and plutocrat a little uncomfortable today.
Video footage of Sri Lankan protesters taking over President's office in Colombo
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Just look at that. Look at all those people flooding in there. That is some truly awe-inspiring power. Imagine how terrifying it would be to find yourself on the receiving end of it.
I don't know enough about what's going on in Sri Lanka yet to comment with any authority on what powers might be at play in this uprising, but I do know that every ruler throughout history has spent time envisioning what would happen if a crowd that size decided to storm their base of operation. If their numbers became too great to suppress, or if your forces who would be doing the suppressing joined the ranks of the people instead, the best-case scenario for you is that you'd have already fled the building by that point, as Rajapaksa had the good sense to do shortly before the building was stormed. If enough angry people get their hands on you, it won't matter if they're armed with rockets or pistols or their own bare hands; you are in for a violent end.
If you've ever wondered why so much energy goes into keeping everyone propagandized in our society, this is why. If you've ever wondered why our rulers work so hard to keep us divided against each other, this is why. If you've ever wondered why we're always being instructed to take our grievances to the voting booth even though we learn in election after election that it never changes the things that most desperately need to change, this is why.
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1 Comments in Response to Johnstone: Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This
This article is a tiny tip of it. Are you a Christian? Do you believe what Jesus said? Then why aren't the churches teaching the following. Go read Matthew 7:7-12. It starts where Jesus says, "Ask and it will be given to you... ." Then in Matthew 7:26 Jesus says, "But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." --- The point is, do you ever ask and not receive? You better find out how to ask and receive, because otherwise you might be building your house on sand. Why isn't it a priority of the churches to teach us how to ask so that we receive? I mean, if it wasn't God's will for us to receive, Jesus wouldn't have said Matt. 7:7. But the churches would rather cover up the ways we can get the faith so that we can obey Jesus in this 'asking, seeking, knocking', rather than teaching us how to get that kind of faith.