Trying to ignore evil in an evil-dominated world...

I keep circling back to the basic insight that negations do not suffice; so that the common strategy of trying to ignore something like geopolitical evil turns-out to be an assimilation to exactly that evil. 

On the one hand, mass media (eg "news") addiction, is a besetting sin of our times and place: the media is intrinsically evil in motivation and net effect. 

If we are to choose salvation and learn spiritually from this mortal life; then we each must know this evil, and must not surrender to it. 

But! 

Cutting-off from the mass media (as well as being literally impossible for most people) is not a virtue - it does not even tend to goodness; because negation does not lead us to positive good. 

And positive goodness is what we must have. 

If we attempt to cut-off our awareness, try to Empty our minds, try Not to have our thoughts occupied with the totalitarian agenda...  all this does not accomplish anything good, because thinking does not stop, minds will not stay empty... 

Unless we acknowledge and discern the presence and activities of purposive evil in our world - such minds will passively be filled by the pervasiveness of evil motivations throughout all the social institutions.

In a world that is - as now - administered and managed by evil-affiliated persons, any form of passivity, negation, attempted-ignoring, or the like; will fail to discern evil, fail to dissociate from evil, fail spiritually to oppose evil by active goodness. 

However differently things were in the past and in other places; for Men in 2025 in our society it is only a conscious and positive spiritual affiliation to the hopes of God and divine creation that suffices to benefit ourselves and the world. 

This, naturally, entails an inner detachment from the ideology and propaganda that pervades (and is the ultimate purpose of) mass media and the Western social institutions - yet it also entails our own active, aware, positive and personal choice to reject the plans and schemes of the servants of evil, whenever they impinge upon us... 

Which impingement is frequent and unavoidable.

The main thing is not, therefore, to try (and fail) to avoid the endless unavoidable impingements, not to enter the infinite and overwhelming vortex of double-negation - hoping to reject evil after evil after evil, without end...

But instead consciously to recognize evil-motives and actions in our orbit of thinking...

And - whenever this happens - recurrently to confirm our desire to align with God's eternal agenda, and confirm our intention to follow Jesus to resurrected eternal Heavenly life. 

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Note: Back in January when DT replaced the previous puppet-Prez, done with the essential support of CHOAM and its agents; I made a precise prediction of upcoming direct Western military action in the Middle East before April, rationalized by a fake pennant event. This prediction was wrong. My prediction was about three months too early, and I underestimated both the scale of action; and I failed to recognize that the nature of evil in The West would have reached such a point that large scale direct intervention could happen without bothering about false pennants - and indeed without any plausible excuse or attempt to explain its "rationale". Yet here we are. To me, this confirms the acceleration of that decisive shift away from the Ahrimanic evil which is rational pursuit of global totalitarianism (i.e. wars intended to gain relative power and wealth). A decisive shift away from this, and instead into a spitefully-motivated and intentionally destructive evil of the Sorathic kind. (NB: Mutually destructive war - war intended not to "win" but to damage both sides, indeed all sides, i.e. to damage the world, humanity, and divine creation.) So this war is primarily spiritual, and to oppose it requires a spiritual act of conscious recognition and choice. And such discernment is A Must; not something that can be avoided by negations such as trying and pretending not to know, or attempting not to think about such things. Or pretending that what we personally think makes no difference... when in truth what we personally think, makes the only potentially positive difference.