Can’t say that I’ve heard of any of those, sorry…but I don’t tend to dig into these sorts of subjects. I can say that I’m not at all surprised that Goverments control their populations by fear. I am, a little…surprised at how…readily the peoples of the world have handed over their rights so quickly in the face of this pandemic. Being cautious, and caring for others is something I think we should all do…but here in Australia, we’re basically under martial law. I’m a good 6 hours away from the nearest case of Covid…and yet I can only leave my house for ‘essential’ purposes and then I must wear a mask. Seems a little foolish.
I hadn't noticed that you live in Australia so I'm not surprised that you're unfamiliar with my government's covert misadventures. I'm not a historian, but have always been interested in history to the extent that it reveals human nature and tends to repeat itself.
Our government had issued lock down orders early in 2020, but law enforcement was hesitant to enforce them. I don't have a laundry in my house (and I'm retired) so I was out driving into town a few times a week doing laundry and food shopping, yet no one stopped me or questioned why I was out. However nothing much was open except a few businesses deemed essential (like the laundromat. )
Throughout the pandemic our government has used "experts" to warn of the dangers of the virus, but the media outlets have consistently filtered, misinterpreted, or ignored the experts to use fear politically and influence the last presidential election. Unfortunately, our "experts" under government employment were never entirely honest as it could cost them and in some cases take them out of the spotlight. Those of us educated in the sciences recognized that the "experts" were being pressured and disingenuous about the information released through government sources and so began the misinformation war, also politically driven.
In the US we still have a majority of citizens that consider themselves Christian and the signs of the times are making it difficult to maintain the attitude that Christ's return is in some distant future and not imminent.
Our government has been actively promoting a narrative to our population for over half a century, pretending first that the US was the defender of the free world and then taking on the role of "liberator " of oppressed nations (with useful natural resources.)
As a consequence, the far right has been predisposed to resist any restrictions on freedom and personal liberty, while the far left has been predisposed to believe in their own moral authority as liberators and movers of social change.
I'm convinced that the principle of "divide and conquer " is written into two party political systems as a means of control over the population, but that begs the questions why and by who?
My interest in history and specifically the truth regarding my own nation motivated me to read a lot of books about our hidden history, those things Christians tend not to be proud of and are notably absent from most public school text books. The advocates of critical race theory want our public schools to include education that reveals the darker aspects of our history, but the opponents are violently opposed to the curriculum because it confuses class privilege with race privilege and emphasizes a false narrative based upon a false distinction, that of race.
Biologically, while there are many nations and peoples, many ethnicities, there is only one race. Teaching kids that race is the ultimate cause of social and economic disparity is not only inherently false but can only increase the ethnic divide, a political trick used by Adolf Hitler in his rise to absolute power in Nazi Germany.
Divide and conquer is a very effective means of warfare, and misinformation applied to the principle has been used politically for as long as journalism has existed. You don't hear journalists taking credit for their role in the rise of Adolf Hitler and in the US its anathema to label journalists propagandists because of their self appointed role as arbiters of societal truth, but by the end of the Viet Nam war our military command and civilian leadership understood that whoever controls the narrative, controls public perception of events.
We don't have "state media" in the US to push a single government agenda, but private media ownership also allows partisan political control of the dissemination of "news" and a great deal of content filtering to support false political narratives.
My own perception of Satan's work through government may be inaccurate, my analysis may be flawed, but students of history who place the truth above national pride are always more informed than the general public in their own nation, simply because histories are usually preserved by the victors of war and sanitized to create national pride and unity.
No government wants to be percieved as evil by it's own population, but no government exists outside of the corrupt system of this world except the kingdom of God, and government remains a necessity as long as sin persists in the hearts of men. Self rule is anarchy and democracy is no more than rule by popular consensus.
Sorry for unloading so much personal analysis on you, but the Bible shapes my perception of the world more than the world alters my perception of the Bible and I've learned to trust its veracity, even before I learned to trust its inspiration.
