Perhaps the most mundane color in the light prism is the color gray. It pales to the inspiration of more dynamic colors like bright red and deep blue. Yet, in reality life is mostly gray. In other words, life can be very complicated.
Simplicity is beautiful. As a species we love the simple rather the difficult. We desire life to be more black and white. We desire ethics to be more simplified and yet sometimes morality can involve great dilemma and sacrifice. Wisdom must be utilized to determine the right course in life.
COVID-19 mandates often invoke a black and white response, however simplicity is not always in order here. The one thing that has been consistent during this government response to COVID-19 and the reaction of the people to the declared pandemic is a black and white simplicity. The government takes a top down one-size fits all disease prevention approach to the pandemic or what I call the scamdemic. Spell check does not like that word and neither does the globalist deep state!
On the other hand, the people tend to divide along pandemic mandate lines. Those who wear masks, even if they don’t agree with mask wearing, are declared to be compromisers and hypocrites. Those who don’t wear masks causing disruptions at work and the grocery store are called murders because they are killing grandma. Once again we are divided along ideological lines, but is life really that simple?
In Southern California, where I currently live, health department mandates are absolute. Employers and retail outlets enforce them religiously to prevent the health department from shutting them down. Some people, who hate masks and see them as unnecessary and harmful, grudgingly wear them at work because others are depending upon them. They must provide for the family and there are no other options other than to be homeless and dependent on a government unemployment check (although some are actually doing better on unemployment rather than working, but you get my point). To stand their ground is to lose their job and put others who are depending upon them in a bad situation. Thus, we enter the gray area. To wear the mask is to compromise convictions and to not wear it is to not provide for your family and as scripture says become worse than an infidel. The moral dilemma requires the Wisdom of Solomon.
One solution is for government to end the mandates, but we all know that
government historically has been the abode of fools more than the wise. The top down one-size fits all approach disregards individual medical restrictions and medical needs in favor of the so-called common good of society. It is the black and white approach to conform or else. This is in contrast to the wise approach of case-by-case medical needs and restrictions. Some people are simply harmed by mask as the result of a preexisting medical condition, but this is ignored by the black and white approach of bureaucratic health department mandates. Individuality is sacrificed in favor of group conformity. Group conformity is a tool used for mental conditioning. It teaches the individual to conform to the bureaucratic authority without question and without logical sound reasoning. This is a tool used for mind manipulation to exercise power and control over others.
I am convinced that the key to surviving this situation is simple rather than
complicated. It is simply to love your neighbor as an individual regardless if they wear a mask or don’t wear a mask. The command Jesus Christ gave us to love our neighbor possesses a power that cannot be overcome by the globalist deep state agenda. They want to divide and conquer us. If we resist that effort by those who want to rule over us and enslave us, we can by the means of biblical love win this war.
By Jeff “The Brain” Claiborne
Staff Writer
The Vortex Apologetic
The Vortex Apologetic 