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The Cabal Question

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From Chapter 11, “The State’s Golem”

When Paul woke from a nap, the article he’d been composing felt like fiction. Historiography, he thought, was nothing but fabrication. Foucault, drawing on Nietzsche, was right after all. History was a product of sheer will and power. How could Paul establish even the most obvious facts when the state and its appendages controlled the narrative and hid, obliterated, or even counterfeited the primary evidence? Theories of the past were necessarily free-floating constructs, liberated, as it were, from substance. One could not even validate evidence derived from first-hand perception because the instrument itself was molded and calibrated by ideological state apparatuses. Orwell wrote that nothing was your own except what resided in your skull. But even that had been manipulated in advance...

And yet, and yet, the visionary gleam, insight—as Eva had said to Investigator Auerbach, the ability to see into things and people, to penetrate to the essence and see the truth of matters—endured. Such vision defied conditioning. It could not be inculcated by the state, nor could the state prevent it. It was a spiritual gift and only the gifted truly understood it. And just as Eva had said, only this vision enabled real knowledge, and without it, knowledge itself was impossible…

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At this, Anneliese jumped in.

Ellul describes how propaganda requires a large audience to function effectively. It loses power over small, independent groups. Early Christian believers gathered in hidden places and exchanged goods quietly. We can do the same. We could be like the Amish…