Listen to this 3 minute audio clip. It is called Evil by Barry Michels (with the backing music by Buckethead).

Here is the poem referenced by William Butler Yeats called The Second Coming.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Yeats wrote this at the end of WWI during the Spanish Flu pandemic in which his pregnant wife was taken gravely ill. He lamented the world he saw around him, as many of us do today, and the evil that pervades so much of it. Look at how things have changed so rapidly over the past year or two and how evil has flourished:

We have a Chinese Virus pandemic, unleashed on the world, that has people living in crippling fear while the government closes down businesses and causes mass unemployment; making people more reliant on the State for their wellbeing. We have the race hustlers and domestic terrorist group, Black Lives Matter, running rampant through streets burning down businesses, beating and killing people, and spreading lies that the gullible and unintelligent help spread. We have progressives trying to ‘cancel’ people for ‘thought crimes’ when they do not share their wretched view of the world.

You are no longer allowed to have a different opinion. They will come for you. They will come for anyone who does not believe the way they do. They are the fascists and we are watching the tyranny of the left wash over the Western world; the same tyranny that made the 20th century the most bloody in human history. Evil takes many forms, but none more heinous than those forms which seek to dehumanize others. Evil is on the march, and is approaching ever so quickly.

We have a finite time here. Stand up to evil; do not fear it. Abhor those who seek to control you and your thoughts. Turn off the media. Don’t allow your mind to be taken captive. Don’t fall for things like ‘climate change’, ‘pandemics’, ‘racism’, or a host of other shams that seek to control peoples’ lives on a massive scale. The purveyors of these schemes are evil. As Michels says at the end, “We must learn to respond to evil, without becoming evil.” It’s also been said, ‘See that you walk prudently through this life, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, for the days are evil.’ Seek to be the light in a dark place; walk prudently, yet firmly; and do not compromise with evil.