For a long time the political paradigm was "left vs right”. But when the left and the right merged into two hands of the same Leviathan, a monolith that stood in opposition to humanity, the paradigm had to shift to "globalists vs populists". This new paradigm served us well for a brief time, allowing us to identify the ways in which the right and the left both worked against the interests of the people they were supposed to serve.
But now the paradigm needs to shift again, because every faction lies and cheats in their pursuit of power and ultimate hegemony. They aren't seeking what is true and good, they are seeking to vanquish an enemy by whatever means necessary. This will only ever achieve a temporal and temporary victory, but never Victory in the higher sense, on the plane where it actually matters.
That Victory is linked to an Awakening, a liberation from the illusions of the material world. And to see past illusion is to see divine Truth. This Truth represents the fabric of reality. To lie is to deny, distort, or damage that reality. To lie is to increase illusion, to fall further into Matter, and thus create to further distance between oneself and the Divine.
And thus Victory cannot reside in one who engages in deception or falsehood. This is the reason for which the hvareno, the metaphysical fluid of Victory, withdrew itself from the legendary King Yima after he lied. Not as a punishment, but because Victory is fundamentally incompatible with any state of illusion. Thus, to be Awakened is to have seen past illusion, to have achieved Victory. It cannot reside in a person who is still asleep in the sublunary fog of conditioned existence. It is for this reason that the Buddha said, “Not even for a joke will I tell a lie”, because to distort the truth even so slightly and frivolously would be enough to pull him back into illusion. Truth is a serious business.
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