Why I Fight

I've been thinking a lot about what is fueling my most recent expansion into what I guess to be the eternal struggle. I've always been the type of person that stands up against some pretty specific types of injustices throughout my life. I'm far from perfect and I make a lot of mistakes. And I've accepted my imperfection, and with it a long time ago gave up worrying about my personal hypocrisy and not always doing the right thing. I've accepted my imperfection and I’m a very flawed person, but I feel more compelled than ever to stand strong against a specific set of injustices that I see unfortunately expanding in our world. To me, caring more about pushing back against these expanding injustices forces me to expand my resolve to push back against those injustices. And by forces, I mean that my mind is built in a way that I actually do not have a choice. I see something coming, and the very nature of my existence and every pillar of what I understand to be my purpose for existence is counter to standing by and watching the outrageous misfortune.  I’m not saying that out of idealism.  I’m specifically saying this because that inability is true of you too, and you are no doubt slowly coming to the realization that you can’t just sit by and watch the world fall apart. 

I, like all of you, see the turmoil in the world today. It's unavoidable. The perceived problems are numerous and each one most likely bigger than any of the individual problems that each one of us has faced before in our lives. I imagine that lots of people looking out into the landscape of our civilizations can't help but feel helpless. When I take a step back and look at it, I am in awe of how much pressure and stress humanity can endure and has endured.  So, I am hopeful.  I believe that while what I'm referring to here is a great darkness, we will prevail and life always finds a way.

This conversation is about me sorting out some of the reasons that I feel compelled to fight so hard against the dark injustices that I see. For some reason, I seem to take a much harder stance against these injustices than many of the people around me. I don't know why to tell you the truth, and it’s a point of frustration for me. It's frustrating because I don't believe that I'm taking an irrationally hard stance with respect to the tragedy the world is becoming. I sincerely believe that others are not taking a strong enough stance against the injustices that they see, and our hiding is fueling the sorrow that’s saturating our society.

I don't see many of the people fighting strongly or efficiently, but those that do are quickly becoming the heroes, protectors, and icons of our time.  And those that are going along with the lies are quickly being identified as the villains and cowards of our time.  The villains and cowards are in the open now as currently outnumber the heroes.  But that’s fine and expected.  In a time when courage is so rare, courage is unmistakably visible and highly powerful.  That’s where we are.  We are in a time of great deceit and little courage.  People know exactly what I’m talking about and they can feel it around them.  Cream rises to the top and the deceit of our time is starting to create a new generation of heroes that will move mountains by simply telling the truth. We are known for our deeds and not simply our words.  It's my firm belief that the darkness comes when people don't speak their minds and cowards thrive.

The darkness, whatever you may be picturing when I say that, comes when our civilization becomes more of a series of accidental events. We as men and women are built to forge our destiny and do the things that we deem right for our communities and families. And though we make mistakes, like being imperfect, our civilization will work out what is right only when we are speaking up and defending ourselves and our integrity. That's why my fight is so important to me. When we don’t speak our minds, we let the world slip.  When we stop fighting for our families, children, grandchildren, and unborn, we are letting the world slip.  We don’t speak out for what is right when society starts to spoil and we fear the people around us not accepting our views.  We let the world slip out of fear of ostracization or fear of retaliation.

There are of course reasons why people don't fight for themselves and those reasons are in ways rational. But our fears of retaliation are only rational to a point, and we are far past that point. I believe people know that we are far past the point of losing control inside of their own minds.  The pressure from above and pressure from below puts them in a defensive mode where there frozen for the don't act or they just start moving into the darkness. The darkness is ultimately death and genocide of course but they don’t know the answer is as simple as just speaking out and saying what is true.

It is no measure of sanity or safety to be well-adjusted to a sick society and the price of lying to oneself is indeed death.  Honesty is our only salvation in this world.  It’s been shown in the greatest of examples that sacrifice and pain is required to preserve anything beautiful and we all have our cross to bear. Our voices are the light and that is ultimately much stronger than the darkness. I, and soon you, will not let the world slip into sleep and a series of accidental events. We will return this world and the human species back into a place where we make the decisions which were said to be the responsibility of the elusive professionals.  We will return the world to the point of declaring what is right from wrong without fear of attack.  We will do this for our families and the long-term greater human destiny.

Maybe I see the darkness more clearly than others, but I don’t think so. Maybe I'm delusional and have simply spent too much time in some obscure echo chamber. Maybe I, through some experience’s life, have simply made me more suitable to battle the misfortunes of the world.  I can't answer lots of these questions, but I do feel that my vigor is not misguided.  I naturally admit imperfection and revisit these types of questions in hopes of keeping myself in check. I have seen points in my life where I have failed to act and points where I over reacted. I make it a point to fight viciously against the injustices that I am seeing expanding over the world. I consider myself fierce and at times appropriately brutal. I do not believe this to be misguided and you shouldn’t fear or avoid your passion. 

I believe the world has lost its fighters and philosophers, but only temporarily. The darkness in the turmoil does tend to make heroes. The heroes of this upcoming era of oppression and sorrow are going to be nothing short of biblical grade champions. It's going to be an era of heroes who fight with their pens and lives in ways that we've only read about at rare moments in our history.  At those points in history, we see true human greatness and the rare glowing spirit of courage that we are so drawn towards. The heroes of the coming era will live out long and glorious stories of the transformation back to a beautiful world.  The beauty they fight for will only become visible as the world itself starts to slip in between our fingers.

I see a more beautiful world for all of us than what we were told was possible, and it’s hiding just around the corner or our courage momentarily. Every one of us remembers better times, and everyone knows that we could have something unfathomably abundant. I see how beautiful the world can and will be now that it's slipping away, and I believe that we are spiritually and biologically programmed to love the world so much that we ultimately will give anything to preserve it. To preserve life.  And make no mistake about the darkness; Life is it’s enemy.

As pessimistic as some of this may sound, it's okay and I know you can see it too.  We know that ignoring it is worse.  I have faith that it's just a lesson for us, and it's a lesson whose time has come. The darkness is a natural phenomenon that comes when we stop compelling our will. Our will is to preserve life and our family.  So quite naturally, when we stop expressing our will, life and our family stopped being expressed proportionately. We now no doubt all individually feel the stress of this in our individual lives. I see this stress in our lives as a symptom and the real problem is good people not speaking up for what is right. Viewing the world in this way creates a terror in me of not expressing myself. I'm not perfect and you are not perfect, but in general we will end up moving towards something peaceful and harmonious if left to our own conversations and concerns.  The aggregate actions of humanity compel us towards basic respect for each other that stems directly from and is sociologically an extension of the love of our family and children. Our evolutionary path does compel us towards peace and harmony though there are hard lessons along the way.

It’s all evolution of our minds, and the beautiful world that we are destined for is written in our DNA.  I see it and the most amazing places. I see a more beautiful world inside of children's eyes as they play and explore before they've learned our adult problems. I see it and feel it whenever I observe a speaker, athlete, or hero of any sort self-actualize in front of me. And I see it in the eyes of the adults around me when they choose fight the outrageous misfortunes when they're not even guaranteed victory or survival.

That is why I fight with my pen as viciously as I can. We are no longer, and maybe we never were, in a time where we can go along quietly with what we see rotting around us. And the heroes are coming. The heroes are on their way.  But you don’t need to wait for them, because most likely, at some point, you are one of them.  As the message gets less and less subtle, simply passing by will no longer suffice.  The darkness leaves no stone unturned and it will come for you sooner than later.  Even if you believe that you are simply playing it safe in a precarious time, ultimately the human spirit that lives in each one of us, and you, will realize that everything is at risk.  Your spirit has most likely already noticed that what is slipping away is more valuable than your job, your social status, and material possessions.  There comes a point when you will give up everything you have and you will gain everything else.

And though for each individual that time may be different, it's coming quicker and quicker every day now. Can't you feel the speed at which our society is being altered by the darkness. Can't you feel how people's very grip on reality is becoming hazy. Mental illness and immorality are metastasizing exponentially at this point.  When the time comes for you to stop playing so safe and move towards what you know is better and right, you will feel the weight of our chains and the fear of the darkness lift off of you. When you choose to put the fear of ostracization behind you and in faith put everything you think you have on the line, you will accept that you will most likely lose everything you thought you had including the security who you thought you were. That's the true fear inside of us. The fear of losing their station in life and security of what people around them currently think about them.

We fear people finding out that we don’t have it all figured out.  These fears are deep-seated, completely natural, protective psychology, and internally terrifying.  We all face these most treacherous fears all alone in our heads. They are understandably scary but fortunately self-imposed paper tigers. They are not real. Every one of us in our own way passionately seeks to overcome what we falsely perceive as inabilities to express ourselves. Enter the hero, the person you really are.  The person that boldly rejects the coward.  Isn't that your true adventure?  An adventure that no one else knows you are on.  The version of you that would shock your friends.  It's definitely my adventure and the most exciting peril that I have ever experienced. Life's an adventure where we seek passion, and passion is always some form of expressing ourselves.

Watch the signs.  Society is quickly being altered by darkness that is brought on by our fear of ostracization and fear of losing our station in life.  This causes us to play through life's events safely in a tumultuous time in need of bold people. We are currently entering the greatest adventure in human history, and as the heroes show up, you will lose your fear of speaking up, and you will lose your fear of defending yourself and your way of life. As you start to see how beautiful this world can be, you will choose to take that scary step of put your finances, your job, and reputation on the line for that beautiful world you envision with your family. As you and the people around you do this, we will reestablish the order and general security in our world that we are now missing so much.

When you put this everything on the line, you will not fear losing that everything you thought you had because you will see what is being lost and what is to gain.  When you take that scary step into the unknown and into faith, only then will all these stressors of the world that you feel expanding daily be lifted off of you. If you feel the weight against you in a grocery store, then you have to fight the darkness in the grocery store. If you feel the weight against you at work, then you have to fight the darkness in your place of work. There are no places where the darkness isn't intruding into your life, and nowhere is exempt from the battle.

The battle of life is against fake realities.  Fake realities such as the constantly fraudulent news cycles, altered visions of what makes a healthy family, public education raising our children to be at odds with their own bloodlines and nations, and the glorification of sexuality over love and sexual responsibility. Common sense conversations with healthy minded people naturally dissolve all of these fake realities and we simply need to stand up and have those common-sense conversations again. Common sense and plain truth are the theme of the coming era which fights back the darkness by the heroes as they rise. And what an adventure. I'm so glad to be living in hard times like this where we have a chance to see the darkness and let it compel us to fight.  We are lucky to live in a time where we will see the glorious rise the most prolific heroes that are DNA can achieve. I've seen the beauty in life and I want more.

I want to thank each and every one of you for being strong this life and being in this life with me. I want to thank you for the contributions you have made and will make towards bringing order back to the world.  It's an adventure and yes, it's going to be epic.  It won’t be an easy adventure though hero, and you are going to have to…

            Wake the Lion!