The Coldest War

I was thinking about the state of affairs in which we live. I sat here and applied a metaphor of war to what I can only describe as the raging battle for the hearts and minds of all mankind. I want to make it clear in this metaphor I am not pointing fingers at anyone. The list would be too huge. I am instead blaming all of us. Society itself is to blame.

Here we stand in the midst of the intersecting battle lines. The ideological frontline encroaching, silent but deafening. The flurries of attacks are so consistent and devastating that it simply the norm. The victims are unable to distinguish their wounds from the rest of their being. The enemy surrounds us, enticing us to surrender. The apathetic are the most tragic of victims. The enemy allies itself with technology, the most beloved creation of modern society. It warps technology and uses its limitless power of persuasion to infiltrate the holiest of sanctums. This final refuge, the mind. It erodes the defences as the bombardment continues. The weapons at our disposal; freewill, critical thought, camaraderie, compassion, sense of higher purpose are maliciously manipulated and perverted by this indescribable all encompassing force of coercion. The hierarchy of vices and evils had become obscured to most. The so-called four horsemen of the apocalypse are but subordinates to the ever-destructive forces of greed and selfishness, apathy and ignorance. These less recognized evils are accepted by our society to grow in our midst. How can we defeat enemies that are cultivated in our schools, fertilized by our media, accepted by our families and given legitimacy by our culture as a whole? I draw this post to a close with a ws a quote by Jules de Gaultier, “Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.” Perhaps imagination will be our trump card to triumph in the end. We have to do something or we will lose everything. That’s precisely what we are going to do with E².