3 | ‘Revelation works when we stop resisting the Spirit of the Lord …
and start listening. And He’s saying a lot right now. The signs are clear: Gird up. All of us. Together. In Him.’
… What else is God saying? What do you see?
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3. Twitter.
One day someone close to you maybe, someone less timid and more real than we were, one of those hardened by repercussions who gained knowledge from our failures, will look you in the eye and say, ‘You guys really blew it on that Twitter thing.’
They’ll be referencing Trump’s agonizing first term, the restriction and disappearance of freedoms across the Big Tech spectrum, and the whole 2020 election fraud debacle. And our only response will be, as if to lend credence to our shame, ‘You weren’t there.’
But this is fiction, like any movie where things always turn out in the end. That place where we’ll have learned our lessons and licked our wounds, and except for the smudge of having collapsed under the weight of totalitarian aggressions which we unknowingly and unwillingly participated in, we’ll find ourselves magically sitting outside under the umbrella, listening to lawnmowers in the distance, sipping ice-tea.
In truth, someone somewhere, probably by candle-light, will eventually write a thorough account of what really happened that will probably never see the light of day, except perhaps internally, filed away in the secret archives of the ruling elite as both blueprint and proof that as far as people are concerned, you can get them to do almost anything with the right amount of smoke and mirrors.
Thankfully, neither the story nor the fight is actually over (in fact the latter is only beginning) but valuable lessons on how to navigate the post-truth landscape in these waning days of freedom still haven’t taken root. We’re as drunk and blindsided as we ever were. It isn’t for lack of patriotism or personal investment in the great throw-down of our lives (not when over 80 million voted the old-fashioned way for Trump) that we couldn’t meet the challenge head-on. We tried, we really did. But in the end, for all our posting and loyal outrage, … we didn’t know where to put our hands.
Summarizing Twitter is simple. It lied. It cheated. It continues to deceive.
I liken Twitter to the kidnapper who confines its captives in the basement and feeds them just well enough to make them feel grateful that things aren’t worse than they are. We fell under its spell, in other words, and stayed there. We kept talking, but in smaller and smaller circles. To our credit we lifted our voices and believed our energy and truth combined with the right intentions would somehow coalesce into unstoppable form, that Trump would rise because of us, and with the help of other heroes we would all join hands and push the Devil back inside his box.
But it didn’t happen.
We didn’t lose because we weren’t good enough. We lost because our good wasn’t and isn’t yet stronger and smarter than their evil.
We must accept the fatal disconnect that Big Tech and powers higher still will deliberately continue to confound and repress us. They will pretend to give us access then take it away. They will make us believe we are still speaking and our voices are being heard long after they have silenced us.
This war can no longer be fought on their terms. We have to change our tactics and tools.
(CONTD)
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