AceDesSpades
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The True Believer
my thoughts based on Eric Hoffer and modern mass movements
A True Believer* as opposed to someone who believes in truth
The True Believer
Can be a Christian.
Can be a Communist.
The label is not the movement.
The movement only addresses insecurities.
A True Believer has been cut off from his past in some fashion.
The True Believer sees other movements when they counter his own.
His movement is true, they are heretics and antithetical to the movement.
Someone who seeks the truth sees the man in the movement and avoids him.
This gives him his sense of individuality and uniqueness and in loneliness, he joins.
The person who believes in truth is never alone for the truth’s ageless and myriad in voice.
The True Believer is frustrated and feels constrained rendering him angry and unvalidated.
In the mass movement, the True Believer finds comfort: solidarity and self-validation.
A member of a mass movement procures validation with fealty to the movement.
A mass movement fights unselfishly in the name of justice, truth and right
So the True Believer is just, truthful and righteous. A warrior monk.
The True Believer is filled with just anger and ready to fight.
The True Believer is contented in the mass movement
And is inculcated in its controlling orthodoxy.
The believer takes comfort within himself
In harmonious control of himself.
His fealty is to truth.
Self-validated.
* (apologies in advance for use of “he” instead of inclusive pronouns – old school English as taught, Marm Hepburn would be proud.)
my thoughts based on Eric Hoffer and modern mass movements
A True Believer* as opposed to someone who believes in truth
The True Believer
Can be a Christian.
Can be a Communist.
The label is not the movement.
The movement only addresses insecurities.
A True Believer has been cut off from his past in some fashion.
The True Believer sees other movements when they counter his own.
His movement is true, they are heretics and antithetical to the movement.
Someone who seeks the truth sees the man in the movement and avoids him.
This gives him his sense of individuality and uniqueness and in loneliness, he joins.
The person who believes in truth is never alone for the truth’s ageless and myriad in voice.
The True Believer is frustrated and feels constrained rendering him angry and unvalidated.
In the mass movement, the True Believer finds comfort: solidarity and self-validation.
A member of a mass movement procures validation with fealty to the movement.
A mass movement fights unselfishly in the name of justice, truth and right
So the True Believer is just, truthful and righteous. A warrior monk.
The True Believer is filled with just anger and ready to fight.
The True Believer is contented in the mass movement
And is inculcated in its controlling orthodoxy.
The believer takes comfort within himself
In harmonious control of himself.
His fealty is to truth.
Self-validated.
* (apologies in advance for use of “he” instead of inclusive pronouns – old school English as taught, Marm Hepburn would be proud.)
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