In a chapter of the book “BIT & COIN: Merging Digitality and Physicality” titled “The Cosmic Information System: Across-Realm Battle for Truth“, I explored the concept of “The Evil’s Scissors” and provided an example illustrating “The Paradoxical Contradiction between Nazism and the Frankfurt School.”
I discuss the two blades of the Evil’s scissors: coercion and deception. My argument is that this duality may seemingly contradict each other, but in reality, they are used by the Evil effectively as the two opposing blades of a pair of powerful scissors.
Devil’s scissors extend beyond mere political ideologies. Without recognizing the underlying spiritual dynamics, societies and individuals risk becoming instruments manipulated by Evil, regardless of their feelings and intentions.
A hard truth
Here is a hard truth that most of us living in the so-called “free world” find difficult to acknowledge: both at the individual and societal levels, the harm caused by soft and subtle deception has surpassed that caused by hard and direct oppression.
If we compare the human mind to a coil, constant pressure may temporarily impair its function, but barring extreme conditions, it tends not to damage its nature permanently. In contrast, excessive stretching not only impairs function but can also permanently damage its nature.
For example, after decades of communist oppression in China, when people were granted even a small measure of freedom in the 1980s, they quickly rebounded. Most people’s minds remained relatively healthy, allowing them to swiftly pursue whatever new opportunities became available.
In contrast, digital addiction—resulting not from coercive oppression but from deceptive freedom —has produced a generation suffering from significant mental health issues. This condition is much harder to address. More material freedom does not remedy it and can even exacerbate the problem. Conversely, imposing stricter boundaries also fails because such minds have developed an extreme aversion to pressure, rendering therapeutic interventions ineffective.
A recent interaction with a 17-year-old boy illustrates this. He is so deeply addicted to gaming that he has entirely abandoned school and struggles with basic self-care in his daily life. Worse still, when his parents installed parental controls to restrict internet access, he reacted violently. I managed to understand his behavior to some degree. However, I was shocked by his response when I tried to reason with him about his well-being. He firmly and explicitly declared: “Playing games makes me happy, and therefore it is the only right thing for my life. Anyone who deprives me of happiness is my enemy.”
Certainly, not every young person is addicted to games, nor does every gaming addict reach such extremes. Nevertheless, consider the power of deception when cloaked in the name of “freedom.”
This tragedy is a result of broader problems in modern society: moral relativism, moral nihilism, and the cult of self-worship.
Destructive scissors of our time
Meanwhile, the Evil continues to use his destructive scissors effectively.
In China, the authoritative mind control is making a full-scale comeback, now with “persuasion” by the problems of the “exorbitant freedom” manifest in the world, especially in America and Europe.
In the US, more indulgence in fake freedom is encouraged, now with “persuasion” by fear of authoritarian society pictured by painting another country.
All these developments are driven by lies. They are lies not only spiritually, but also socially and economically. China is likely to go much further in the direction of making a stronger nation by sacrificing human values, and the US is likely to go much further in the direction of causing a weaker nation by worshiping individualism and humanism.
The trade war is a great illustration.
Americans are misled into believing that tariffs against China will save the US, when the reality is that the US can only save itself from this problem when its people become more disciplined and less indulgent.
Meanwhile, Chinese are misled into believing that as long as they work harder under the banner of nationalism, they will be a happy people.
Lies.
Truth exists, and the Truth can indeed set one free. Open the Book of Truth (the Bible) and find out. Do not allow Evil to convince you that Truth is against you.
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