The power of logic in a crazy world

Published: Fri, 07/25/25

The other day I saw a video of the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations reading an Old Testament passage from Ezekiel which explains how a piece of land in the Middle East has been given by God to a certain demographic as their ‘homeland’. Therefore, all efforts to secure this land for this particular self identified demographic are justified by divine will and ancient scripture. A much larger demographic, largely, but not exclusively, based in the USA, believes that establishing this ‘homeland’ in the Middle East and concentrating members of the smaller demographic there will bring about the event they call the ‘Second Coming’. This event will mean that all the ‘true believers’ will be ‘raptured’ up into heaven. If you want to succeed in Western politics, and other aspects of public life, you need to subscribe to these narratives, or at the least keep your scepticism very much to yourself.
In my lifetime religion, and being ‘religious’, has generally been regarded as mainly a harmless eccentricity and is often seen as an old fashioned world view hanging on from another time. In my experience most people who enjoy belonging to a religious community still buy into scientific secular materialism on a day to day basis. And yet, right now a whole community in the Middle East is being starved to death and those who attempt to receive aid are routinely shot and killed by the occupying forces. You don’t have to call it genocide if you are uncomfortable with the term. Ethnic cleansing, mass murder, war crimes on an epic scale, racist hate crimes, will all do instead to describe what is happening in the name of fulfilling prophecy and carrying out the will of the Old Testament deity, backed up by a New Testament heresy.
Our guinea pig has a pen on the lawn which I move each day so that she has fresh grass to eat. There is a door in the end of the cage through which I can put extra food and we leave it open during the day in case she wants to come out and forage around the garden. There is lots of tasty greenery such as chard, spinach beet, and dandelions just a few feet away. And yet, although the door is open she never comes through it. After being in the cage for a couple of years it doesn’t occur to her that she can just walk out any time she likes. There is apparently a similar principle of conditioning domesticated elephants to believe that even just a string tied to a twig is enough to keep the animal in place. Western society likes to think of itself as free and democratic and yet the majority of people are controlled in the same way that our guinea pig or those elephants. They just can’t believe that it is possible to go past certain
limits.
Karl Marx famously wrote about religion as ‘the opium of the people’ and unconscious belief systems do sedate the mind and creates self-imposed boundaries and restraints. A conscious choice to be involved in a religion should act as a cultural training and education in thinking about the purpose of life itself. Then there comes a point where you have to go beyond culture and recognise the principles on which the universe actually works, in Stav terms we call it the ‘Orlog’. Ur (primal) laug (law) of the universe. Principles then need to be tested so that we can actually learn from them. What is on the other side of that door? What will happen if I go through it? What will I find on the other side? We can also apply logic and ask the question of whether a narrative makes any sense or not. If the narrative makes no sense then why believe it? We are all fully entitled to question everything and refuse to believe in anything that
makes no logical sense. If we don’t believe in something then we have no duty to comply with it.
So, why is there so much high level compliance with the evil which is being perpetrated in the Middle East right now? A lot of very high grade opium has been administered to too many people. However, logic eventually finds a way to break through. The Geoffrey Epstein case is proving to be an interesting example. The logic principle of non-contradiction states that a thing cannot exist and yet not exist at the same time. So, the Epstein files either exist and were sitting on Pam Bondi’s (the Attorney General) desk ready to be released. Or, they never existed at all, and the whole episode was a hoax. The questions go further: If nothing actually happened what was Epstein doing in prison and why did he commit suicide/was murdered/was spirited away, depending upon your preferred conspiracy theory. What is Ghislaine Maxwell doing in prison? Why is Prince Andrew in disgrace? How did Epstein afford his mansions, his private island,
and private jets? Could there possibly have been some kind of intelligence operation going on, fronted by by Epstein and Maxwell for the purpose of control of influential men through blackmail? Is Trump’s denial that there ever was a list of Epstein’s ‘friends’ actually an attempt to cover up the existence of a ‘control through compromise scheme’? I am just mentioning the Epstein case as one example among many which can wake people up when they actually think about the inherent contradictions in a particular situation.
It is depressing to observe how easily people can be sedated into following the ‘narrative’ without question. On the other hand the slightest effort to think logically can get some people suddenly realising something is wrong and choosing not to comply. Although the powerful like to talk tough I am basically hopeful for the future as the weapon of logic is always available to us, if we have the courage to use it.
regards
Graham
PS If you are interested I would recommend reading this assessment of the Epstein case here https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4801/Top-Epstein-Historian-Blows-The-Whistle.aspx
PPS Another logical conundrum; can an aid organisation save lives and get people killed at the same time? Another great post from Caitlin Johnstone https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/21/gaza-isnt-starving-it-is-being-starved/
Graham Butcher
21 Beaver Road
Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0QN
UNITED KINGDOM

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