After the Apocalypse - Glenn Beck is on the Right Track

Nobody who’s paying attention to the world and national scene could possibly have missed the proliferating forecasts of imminent economic, environmental and general societal doom. Some of the forecasters have enough conscience to throw in one or two ideas of how to minimize it; very few have suggestions for how to avoid it; most seem to have a perverse glee in showing how strongly they can build the case for it.

And yes, the American experiment is in a tough place, maybe tougher than ever before. Americans could find themselves experiencing a near overnight collapse of their economic system, their currency, their energy supplies and their confidence in their military—not to mention their government. They’ve already experienced a collapse in the utterly fraudulent image of Barack Obama as a legitimate and competent American President.

But life is not going to end for humanity as a whole or for Americans as a whole. So the question that really matters isn’t about which forecast of doom will prove most accurate—it’s about what the American people and humanity as a whole are going to do about it.

We can’t compliment Glenn Beck enough for his willingness to venture into this all-important question with concrete, spiritually-based suggestions for how Americans can overcome this evil with good.

Beck may be on Mt. Rushmore someday—and the best indicator that this might happen is the unanimity and volume of elitist scoffing that would result from the mere mention of such an idea. But the truth is Beck has for months been accurately sizing up the threat to America posed by radical leftists—Obama, Soros, Ayers, Samantha Powers, Cass Sunstein, assorted union bosses and their minions—and just this past week nailed the real agenda of this group in the context of what seem to be an endless series of WTF foreign policy pronouncements and actions: they seek to promote destabilization in the Middle East, toward the end of isolating, surrounding and destroying Israel, while gumming up oil supplies, toward the further end of destabilizing the entire economic systems of western civilization in order to replace them with a worldwide, socialist, authoritarian ‘open society’ ruled by them. It’s diabolical; its alliance with militant Islam is sickening and perverse; it makes good people want to turn away in disbelief; it shakes people of faith down to the very core to even contemplate that such evil is on the loose in America and the world.

But Beck has the right instincts: this movie has played before—it’s good and evil cast in the forms of 2011. Good will prevail; this ‘divine Providence’/God stuff the American founders wrote of is not a creature of their imaginations—nor is it outdated or overruled by the latest in modern or ‘post-modern’ thinking. Humanity seems forever to be re-learning this fact, but when it does, the path out of the latest cataclysmic scenario becomes clear.

Beck has called for an April 21 ‘flash mob’ event where the purpose is to show your love for your neighbor as yourself. Not violence, not hate, not finger-pointing—but acts of love toward your fellow-man.

How naïve and stupid, right? How irrelevant, right? How futile in the face of the master-minded, paid for machinations of George Soros-funded organizations!

No, no, and no. Beck has correctly distilled the essence of the war we are in—it is between the vision of men and women created in the image and likeness of a loving God, and capable of excellence, self-government and personal responsibility, vs. the angry, atheistic vision of men and women as pitiful and pitiable creatures destined to live lives of limitation and lack while driven to hate, murder and other crime by the baser instincts of greed, envy, and selfishness, and needing to be subject to the rule of some kind of master breed.

We talked about this very subject in one of the early essays on this site: “We Do Not Want This”, and its title is as true now as it was then and as it will ever be. Because there aren’t really competing visions of what man is. There is truth, and there are lies. America as founded is built on the truth; the radical leftist’s view of life and humanity is a lie. The lie has been so dressed up and disguised as to have been accepted as truth (or at least undiscerned as evil) by much of the world and, in 2008, by a majority of voting Americans. But the lie is exposed for all to see, thanks to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and many, many others. A lie has no power of its own; it only lasts as long as people believe it. It is in the middle of collapsing right now, no matter how strong it may currently appear.

So what has this to do with Beck’s April 21 flash mob? At its core, it is a voluntary and powerful form of defiance and rejection of all thinking and tactics that would say men and women are nothing more than base animals who can be manipulated by superior animals. It stands against invitations and incitements to envy and hatred. It says to evil—I will not follow or bow down and consent to be a part of your perverted world. And it will have a positive effect—because every thought matters, and evil’s inevitable fall is accelerated once no one is afraid of it anymore, and good asserts itself.

So how will handing a bag of groceries to a needy person on April 21 solve trillion dollar deficits, gasoline at $4 per gallon, the Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt, etc., etc.? By itself, it won’t. But as it signals a determination to stick with and live by the values and morals we know are true, it will gain strength and momentum and provide productive focus on whatever the next problem claims to be. And a framework for answers. They won’t be easy, but they will be simple, and effective.

After the apocalypse, there will be a future. Thanks to visionaries and leaders like Glenn Beck, and millions of Americans who are fully awake to what’s happening, that future will be bright.

Paul Gable

March 26, 2011