James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Hypocrisy was once a useful. albeit shameful, way to get what you wanted without getting anything that you didn’t. It could be use to attempt to obtain the rewards of obedience without having the obligation of any of the hard work. It was a way to trick others without fooling yourself. Everyone else was a sucker because you knew you weren't. But what if you're the sucker and don't even know it?
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
But what happens when two-facedness no longer responds to getting caught with shamefacedness? What happens when you weaponize hypocrisy to get what you want, but justify your hypocrisy because it got you what you wanted? In other words, what if you are the kind of hypocrite who says that hypocrisy is ok for you, but not for others? What if you believe it is ok for you to lie, but insist on being told the truth?
"They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When this is taking place, it has gone beyond hypocrisy -- it is hypercrisy. It is lies leaned into, lies as a means of conduct, lies in broad daylight, lies, lies, and more lies. It is deceit and devilry employed on a daily basis with no attempt to cover it up. It is blatant disregard for the standards you hold others to. It is taking liberties precisely where you're depriving others of theirs. It begs the question, "What you going to do about?" It is bald-faced and bold. Hypercrisy is deliberately doing and saying different things. It is hypocrisy without embarrassment or reservation and double-mindedness without cognitive dissonance. It is calling lies "truth" while calling the truth that exposes it "a lie." This is dysinformation.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” - George Orwell, 1984
Hypocrisy is so last season, hypercrisy is now all the rage… literally.
Faced with this, we must refuse to deal in lies and refuse to participate in the lies of others.
"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We must refuse to play along with it, refuse to shake its hands, refuse to show it hospitality, refuse it quarter, refuse its peace treaties, refuse to entertain it or to be entertained by it. Do not exchange the truth for their lies. Do not conduct business in their form of commerce. Do not change your truth coinage into their incoherent currency. Refuse to buy or sell their deceit. Do not accept it as a means of exchange and do not use it to purchase anything. Sit the system out. Speak the truth. Deal in facts. And do not, for the love of God, buy or sell any of it.
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We must hold on to the truth and proclaim it -- come what may.
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The liars will insist that you confess their truth. They will make you complicit in their conceit. They won't allow any other take on truth to exist. The coexist-stickered cars will be the first to run over the fish-symboled sedans forgetting that the coexist crowd was permitted to exist under the reign of God's truth, yet God's truth will not be permitted to exist under their reign of terror. They will resort to physical violence because in the world of ideas, they cannot win. Their philosophy is impotent. It is self-defeating and founded on lies. It cannot hold there, so they take hold here. But even here, they cannot win. Ideas have consequences and idiocy cannot be contained to brains. Insanity is not a strategy. Anything that cannot go on forever, won't. It's only a matter of time.
So, stay true to the truth. Wisdom is justified by her children and the woke have none of their own. Their fruitless philosophy cannot produce biological offspring. The meek will inherit the earth, in part, the old-fashioned way, by being fruitful and filling it.
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