09/15/2025
First Letter from Lopik to North America
It is difficult to not look at the shared disharmony between our lands but it is simply the truth that our nations face a collective challenge; one that does require an honest response. As older nations before us have discovered, there comes a point where the desires of the people begin to separate from the desires of established authorities. While many fear this a precursor to annihilation, it tends to be that burden falls to smaller shoulders for quite some time before it becomes a national collapse. We are not in the end times, we're barely even through the doorway to that opportunity. And this is more to our lament then regret, it means for most of us we will not see the outcome, only efforts on display.
When I hinted at a second American Civil War ten years ago, it was already well considered plausible. When I began to call it an open and active cultural Civil War in the 2020s, I feel most by then had simply accepted it as daily life. This was the most dangerous turning point, and perhaps the best opportunity we all missed to avoid what inevitably came next. While skirmishes and spats are now inevitable, it is incumbent on us that we stop and consider our limits as mortal under the Divine. Absolute Power does not come through the ability to terminate another life, and through usage of it one cheapens their own stance drastically. While I agree it feels Supreme in the moment, that is simply the instinctual predator inside reminding you that hunting feels good. It is a response, a replication from another form, it has no substance in itself for growth, and lives in stagnancy.
This conflict is, however, open and alive. It is foolish to cry foul when participants in battle for the power to live conduct acts to these extremes, as our own inability to hold discourse and honest community is what preludes such violence. We have forgotten that thoughts and words hold tangible effects in the physical world. In fact, it is those who have forgotten this the most that currently promote the chaos we all experience, a reduction to the smallest caliber by those unable to pull themselves higher. A forgiving society accounts for these types, but certainly never provides for them crowns and podiums to preach from. The whole idea that a mortal could hold Divine Right to Rule rests on the hope that the world will never change, but time and time again we are crushed under the consistency of time. There is no voice amongst us who deserves the right to announce another inferior, as all are inferior under the Divine, and we hold faith in that truth together. There is no sanctity in a mortal war, not one of words, not one of actions. We the limited children of Divine simply cannot expect to know the purpose of what else exists around us. We can say what we will interact with, engage, or allow approach, but we cannot reduce, eliminate, or exterminate that which we did not create. Your control resides only with your self.
Your actions, your words, are yours to be known and seen through. I've been taught that the Devil's Advocate is the most useless form, as it stems from disingenuous actions. I've found it helpful to consider all actions from such an angle. Do the words match the intention? And not just the mortal intention, but the Divine behind it. Does this moment teach understanding. Does this moment expand comprehension. Only devil's demand a plain view, Divine is infinitely complex. So can a holy one preach about the shape and form of another mortal? Absolutely not. He is neither sculptor nor author. He is no critic of Divine, and in playing one becomes a Devils Advocate on behalf of their church and flag. Divine needs no advocates. Divine needs holy ones to model the teachings, and inspire with their character. There can be no force in conversion.
In this coming Era a choice to force a path upon others may cause those others to act in what they deem is self defense. Before it becomes an open hunt, we need to catch ourselves and bring things back into possibility. Socially, we need to engage with one another not to pick targets, but take stock. Pull back to what is immediately you, your own mind and body, and try to focus it away from hatred. Try to consider that each and every one of us alive is afraid, because we expect the worst. The worst only comes if we choose to act on that fear. Leaders who choose to continue pushing fear and hatred have no place in the world that comes next, as their actions demand subjugated order combined with obedient fearfulness. What comes next, for it to be better than what was, must be about still conversations, and careful optimism. Small steps in a new direction is the only way to avert mass casualties, and neither side can afford losses of that magnitude. We here in North America are too few for any group to go forward alone. Let the spirit of cooperation take you to the places that fear will never allow. Create peace.
