Liberty Lighthouse Journal: AN ESSAY ON FEAR

FEAR is a word that can be a noun or a verb. As a noun, it is an “unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. As a “transitive verb” it is an expectation of an alarm or reverent awe like fearing the worst or fearing God.

Greek philosophers, like Plato understood fear:

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote about fear:

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

People have either succumbed to fear or dealt with it throughout human history. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about dealing with it:

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

The philosopher & German intellectual, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote about fear among other things:

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” [Something that is a problem with those who follow democratic socialists in the United States]

And about fighting fear and other “monsters”:

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

When I read the DUNE series of books by Frank Herbert, which took six years of research to write. Actually it was comprised of two parts that was composed in eight installments – Dune, Dune World, Prophet of Dune, and Children of Dune, Dune Messiah, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune. I found a way to combat my fears, which fortunately are few and has remained with me to this day, from this segment taken from Dune:

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

One can see by taking control of one's mind and emotions, fear can be overcome.

Mark Twain wrote:

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”

There is an old saying, which I have failed to find the original source:

“Those who claim not to fear are either crazy or a liar.”

Something I learned in the military. Since fear is psychological, it must be dealt with at that level. In the military, whatever branch, especially soldiers and marines – they repeatedly train until it can become monotonous. But there is a method behind this – constant training promotes a moment when that training must be brought into play in combat and then actions are almost performed without thinking about it. Repetitive training does that and our wise DI (drill instructors) knew that. Later, as an NCO tasked to provide soldier's manual classes I utilized it.

Knowledge helps to combat the debilitating emotion of fear. Fear of snakes can be overcome if one studies and understands their habits and nature. I do not like snakes, but I do not fear them because I use caution and knowledge to prevent a dangerous encounter. For example, when sleeping in the desert especially, a snake during the course of the night might crawl into your sleeping bag or under it if you are sleeping on the ground. It is seeking warmth from the cold desert night. While in the Arabian desert, it would get to 120° by noon and after nightfall temperatures would quickly drop so much so that sometimes water may freeze on the surface. It is because there isn't any vegetation to retain the heat. In deserts where there is vegetation during the summer months the night temps will be as high as 90° at night, maybe 80° by morning light after temps have climbed 110° to 120° during the day like here in Mohave Valley. Knowledge about the habits of scorpions and spiders like the tarantula can be useful.

Thus Plato wrote:

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

What do I still fear? Once I had a fear of heights in certain situations. Like climbing a ladder swaying in the breeze or looking down over a railing in a high-rise building. I overcome most of my fear of heights when I attended Air Assault training in the military. But it was always difficult for me to rappel facing down (a tactical employment) – one hand on the rope and the other on a slung rifle. I have a photo I took of a group of helicopters taken by having someone hold onto my combat harness as I leaned out of a Huey chopper to get the shot. The crew chief was not pleased.

Everyone has something they fear.

When I was young I enjoyed the antics of clowns. Today I detest them, thanks to Stephen King and the writer/directors of clown horror films. They are creepy. Never know what lurks under the face paint.

But my biggest fear now is what is happening to our nation. We have allowed Marxists and decadent social engineers to infiltrate our education system and I see the result in a younger generation who no longer are taught to think, but to obey consensus science and twisted ideology that transcends against common sense, the international “Golden Rules”, and the morality of philosophy and religion.

I see angry young people attacking and destroying and showing their disrespect for authority – all the while in their hatred for everything decent, hating themselves. It is why suicide has increased in young people. Their outlook upon life, tradition, patriotism and self-esteem has been stained with the Marxist evil doctrine.

I fear for this generation and those to come. I fear for a Republic, youth no longer reciting much less knowing the salute and pledge to our flag, the symbol of the People recited every morning with our hands over our hearts and STANDING looking toward the flag in our classroom and saying:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Democrat-Socialists detest the pledge of allegiance for two reasons: (1) it contains the word “Republic” and the word “God”, which was added during the presidency of Eisenhower. Democrats have been insisting our nation was conceived and remains a “democracy” - despite the truth otherwise since Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat president took office.

The New York Times, the most provocative Marxist newspaper along with the Washington Post, has devised something called the 1619 Project that was developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones who writes for the New York Times. The writers of the NYT declared its purpose – it

“aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States national narrative.”

The New York Times Magazine, August 2019, commemorated the 400^th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colony of Virginia. The Pulitzer Center, another polluted by Marxism institution, announced they were awarding the 2020 Pulitzer Prize to the project's creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones. From there it has been published in textbooks that depict that our nation was systematically racist from the beginning. Historians like Gordon S. Wood, James M. McPherson, Sean Wilentz, Victoria E. Bynum and James Oakes expressed their concern and “strong reservations” that the project was rift with misconceptions and requested factual corrections be made.

Wikipedia:

“The scholars denied the project's claim that slavery was essential to the beginning of the American Revolution, as colonists wanted to protect their right to own slaves.”

The truth was that slaves that were fighting against the British were promised freedom if the revolution was won. The British also offered such a promise by Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia in 1775. This fact was altered/omitted in the 1619 Project text. Our nation has had its ups and downs, beginning with allowing slavery in a nation that is a Republic based upon constitutional rule of law and the natural rights endowed by the Creator, as pointed out by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and others. Jefferson for example, despite inheriting and owning slaves was in a conundrum. What is not being taught in our school textbooks is that it was Jefferson who heralded the law that no slaves from Africa would be allowed to be sold and slave ships no longer sailed to American ports. During his lifetime he freed slaves. The rest were freed by his will. But according to this generation of racists, this is not revealed. Instead they have removed the name Thomas Jefferson from institutions that he founded because he knew the importance of education and that all must be educated in order for citizens to understand, uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States and our Republic. Racism has reared its head and turned 180 degrees. Now Caucasians are apologizing for actions of Americans long dead as well as those slaves that were not freed until the Lincoln proclamation. Even Abraham Lincoln is not exempt from the wrath of the racist Marxists. Despite freeing the slaves and the fact he detested slavery, they have begun to remove his name and likeness from campuses that have succumbed to the Marxist ignorant mob. And mentioning ignorance, all our positive progression of the education system is being reversed. Students are being graduated from high school that have no proper reading comprehension, cannot spell, don't know who we fought against or why there was an American Revolution. The Marxists are playing the Communist Manifesto playbook and what took place in the medieval era - "dumbing down" the population because ignorant people are more easily controlled.

This is what is being taught to today's students along with pornography disguised in sex education classes and other mundane and despicable curriculum. Political Correctness has reared its ugly head and grown into such a size as to be dangerous and is based upon the principles of Karl Marx whose Communist Manifesto is a playbook for Democrats who have declared themselves democratic socialists, as though making up a description or changing words changes the concept of Marxism. And what does the Marxist playbook declare? Karl Marx quotes are clear:

“The education of all children from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”

“Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.”

“In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.” … “The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”

Time and again one can see in social media and elsewhere the cry for dissolving the American Marxist movement; but to some it falls upon deaf ears because that is not what they were taught in school.

Thus, since the Marxists and social engineers first made their political agenda by infiltrating our education system – it should be what We the People initially focus upon to make a complete reformation back to the Republic created by the Founders.

When elections come, be a responsible voter and find out all that can be found about candidates wanting your vote. Listen to them, for sure, but do not take their word as obvious truth. Find out if their political career shows their words were backed by actions. Use the website On The Issues that documents what they have said, what they voted for, and what they proclaim to support. But part of the problem is that a growing number in our society has become as corrupt as those they vote and cheat for.

I have provided sources that help in this area and provide knowledge needed as ammunition against the American Marxist cancer killing our Republic.

Benjamin Franklin was a skeptic and it was because he understood human nature. He declared to a citizen that they had created and formed a republic when asked what government was decided. He also wrote and warned us:

“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

I have turned my fear into something else: resolve. And that resolve is to enlighten the "lost generation" whose mind has been corrupted by an evil element that worked its way into our education system, our culture, our society, OUR government; spreading like cancer among the youth of our nation. If I can enlighten just one young American, that American can in turn enlighten another and as a snowball rolls down a hill, accumulate enough momentum to restore our Republic to which the Founders so wisely created in hopes that it would last. It will, if We the People let it and perform our duty. Incrementally we are witnessing our freedom, our liberties, our constitutional rights being sent to the dustbin of history orchestrated by self-serving, corrupt leadership that through our education system has created the amount of "sheeple" that will allow them total control over our lives from cradle to grave. And then only the ruling elite will be the ones enjoying any form of happiness that Thomas Jefferson spoke of in the Declaration of Independence in its preamble:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

I should feel empathy for Joe Biden because of his senility, the mind is a terrible thing to go to waste. But I also feel and know that it is karma in that he spent 40-50 years of corruption and criminal activity, passing this onto his children to the point that he will go down in history as a likeness to the Mafia as a the head of a "crime family". I cannot allow empathy to alter the fact that too many in our government, teaching staff and educational administrators are purposefully, willfully imposing Marxism upon the youth of our nation in order to make our Republic a distant memory.

Some of these sources thrive upon donations, several do not accept government funding (like Hillsdale College and Patriot Post. A few dollars provided by thousands can go a long way. I know it is difficult during this time of intense inflation, but as I stated $1 or $2 can go far multiplied by thousands or tens of thousands.