The Cabal

If there is a Dominant Narrative (one is the rise of Civilisation and the Battle of the West to overcome oppression and Enlighten the World and the other is the Existence of God and the battle of Good and Evil) then there is a Counter Narrative.

Over the last 30 years the Internet has seen the development of this negation narrative.

It has reached its zenith now in videos like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAOHLw_8m2w

A tight consistent narrative that equals the narrative that came before it.

I have on problem with it, but firstly it is to be applauded in bringing new life to the old challenges of challenging corrupt power and protecting the weak and vulnerable. Although Nietzschians would argue that Power was just Power and the powerful will get away until a greater power brings them down. 

My problem with this new narrative is that it is entirely negative. It tells us what is wrong but not what we can do about it. It is like a Jesus or Messiah exposing the working of the Devil but offering no guide to Goodness of Heaven. Narratives of the Past like Jesus protecting the weak and championing the Good, the Peasants Revolt in 14th Century Britain to overcome Norman oppression, Marxism being the theory of theories about the end of corrupt rule by Feudal Aristocracies, and then Capitalists and many battles by people against corrupt power structures of the millennia have all offered an alternative view of reality. Today there is none.

The best we have is Aliens will save us or Trump and JFK Jnr will save us.

Even Christianity which seems to say that Jesus will save us requires faith and obedience on our part. That it is true is a complex piece of theology: I saw it argued in the Zoom pulpit only a few weeks ago that salvation cannot come from our own hands and we cannot do good deeds expecting God to save us as a result. God is absolute freedom and mysterious as a result: He makes the Laws he doesn't need to obey them. We can hardly argue with St Peter based upon our faultless life, this is not what Goodness is about. It is not a bank account of deeds. As Jesus Himself says pray to God in silence, because if you go to the temple just to be seen by others as pious then that is all you will gain. While those who pray sincerely in silence are the ones that God hears. But if you get angry because God didn't hear you you don't understand prayer or God. It is not an equation, God is not there for deals. He is gracious if we are lucky! However all that said, Jesus gave us a very good idea of how we should live and what allowing the Spirit of God into our hearts is like. There is nothing to expect, and no currency, just an attitude and striving to be more like Jesus.

Yet what of the new narrative? Apart from uncovering the unspeakable evils of the corrupt elites like detectives and putting the State legal system to work to rid them what else is there? What does the new world look like? How are we to behave to make things better, what is the meaning of our life, what should we strive to do? It's actually just the same. And one wonders if its just the same whether the future is just going to be the same. It looks a lot like blaming a small cabal of bad people for the world's wrongs. There are high profile people in the US system being brought to light now for abuse of people. Yet no mention of the vast networks of criminality that span the globe trafficking people from all countries. The immigrant problem is not a problem with people running from oppression in "bad" countries but rather a mature market in human beings being fooled into giving up their life saving to criminal gangs for a better life abroad before ending up being dumped at the gates of foreign powers with no protection or assurance. Many end up in slavery both economic and sexual. This is nothing to do with The Cabal but a deep problem with human beings exploiting each other for personal gain.

The Devil is extremely subtle. He infiltrates the World at all levels. Removing a corrupt global elite will not change this. And Trump is not able to take on the Devil. However he may do a lot to clean up the current corruption in the US and good luck to him. But I suspect we shouldn't hope for too much, and we shouldn't get complacent that things will change by themselves. We need ensure that we are part of that better world, and we need to strive for clear ideas about what a better future looks like.

The current narrative is not enough. A lot more work is needed especially in the area of economic reform.