Spiritual Thinking is a simple way to counter Demagogues.
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The demagogue preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H. L. Mencken
Reason and truth rarely prevail against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.
Charley Reese
Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy, and anxiety is not hope; it’s not change; it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship or demagoguery; we need solutions.
Paul Ryan
If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance, or ineptitude. Still, it also requires a furious, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to complicated problems.
Moby
America has been a land of dreams—a land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here, they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now, we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, ideology, poverty, disease, illiteracy, demagoguery, or tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Whether we admit it or not, the world is inundated with demagogues, though they will always be in the minority. When God created man in His image and likeness, He graciously granted man the power to think without unintended consequences. Many men will veer away from that image and follow a path of selfishness, lying and dishonesty, cheating others, developing an ego way beyond their capabilities and intellect, and a superiority complex over all the good and decent people. It happens because they do not have the intellect to excel in anything except cheating themselves and others, and they very seldom have any compassion or empathy. If anyone excels and is intellectually superior, by God’s grace, then these people with low intellect to understand complex problems or have the intelligence to be innovative, these people, whom we call demagogues, try to start whining, crying Foul Foul! To take attention from them. Since there are so many innocent people who are lazy idiots, these demagogues look so intelligent to them because they feel that they are representing them. The buck does not stop there. They would use terms like Nationalism, Race, patriotism, etc, and start waving the flags as if they were the only patriotic people in this world. They will use every information to their advantage because they do not have any ideas. They do not sacrifice anything for the good of the community or country. If one were to develop a test to distinguish between humans and animals, they would score in the animal’s region rather than in the human range. So, how do we deal with them when they are so grossly obnoxious?
Spiritual Thinking is the synchronization of our human thoughts with the Divine Mind, God, and Brahman inside us, resulting in exactly the behavior that God created man in. Since the God inside us is the only God and He is inside each of us, our collective thinking will always be harmonious. Everyone will agree on their disagreements, and know that that is what makes Democracy work so wonderfully, without any discrimination based on race, color, or origin. We are tolerant of people’s misgivings and accommodate them and their thoughts. Collectively, people will not be divisive and tear each other apart. Even all the duds who are so insecure will start feeling secure and will not be as paranoid as under a demagogue. At this time of elections around the corner everywhere, let us pray that God will reign in everyone’s minds. We can find solutions for solving regional conflicts, wars, climate crises, energy crises, infrastructure management, civility towards each other, etc., and everyone, including the demagogues, be blessed so that they may feel secure and not cause continuing damage.
As I mentioned in my previous post, at an early age, I was fortunate to spend some time in Swamy Sivananda’s Ashram in the Himalayan town of Rishikesh on the banks of the River Ganges directly across from The Bhagwad Gita Bhavan where they would be chanting Bhagwad Gita 24 hours a day. Swamiji will hold the prayers several times a day. The exciting thing was that there were visitors worldwide, though Swamiji’s “Divine Life Society” exists in almost all countries, including his Asrams and schools. His Universal Prayer is linked below, especially at this time of upheaval everywhere, and a brief picture of His Ashram in Rishikesh.
OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
Life is a Pilgrimage.
Humility is not Cowardice.
Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh India.
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