Drifting with the Devil

Finding the courage to do what is right.

The one thing that boggled my mind about the entire covid disaster was how so many people did their very best to consistently not see what was staring them in the face, and they remained in this state of detachment from reality for the better part of three years. Ask any of those people today about what happened in the years from 2020-2022 and they will just stare at you with a look of pure incomprehension. They’re still in the bubble. They would do it all again. The masks, the six feet of distance lunacy, the poison vaccines, all of it.

To me, this doesn’t compute. It never has. But then yesterday I read this essay by Dr McFillin, titled The War for Your Mind. In it he discusses a book by Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil. Hill wrote the book in 1938 but it wasn’t published until 2011. His family sat on it for so long because they considered the content too controversial to be published. I have not yet read the book, but Dr. McFillin has a summary of its most important theme.

In the book, Hill conducts an imaginary interview with the Devil himself. And the Devil is remarkably forthcoming. He explains exactly how he captures human souls - not through dramatic temptation or obvious evil, but through something far more insidious.

Drift.

Drifters, the Devil explains, are people who have surrendered the capacity for independent thought. They move through life in a kind of trance, absorbing whatever programming is placed before them. They don’t choose their beliefs. They don’t question what they’re told. They simply... drift.

The Devil claims that 98% of people are drifters.

Not because they’re stupid. Not because they’re bad. Because drifting is easy. It requires nothing. No confrontation. No discomfort. No swimming against the current. You just... float. Let the tide take you. Accept what you’re given. Think what you’re told to think. Want what you’re trained to want.

Hill asks the Devil how he creates drifters. The answer is chilling in its simplicity: fear and habit.

First, you make people afraid. Afraid of poverty. Afraid of criticism. Afraid of illness. Afraid of loss. Afraid of being different. Fear paralyzes independent thought. A frightened mind doesn’t question - it seeks safety in conformity.

How do people become servants of evil? For a small minority it is a conscious decision. Perhaps your average young man born into one of the high families who makes the choice to worship the devil and goes through the foul ceremonies because he wants to continue to enjoy all the trappings of the very exclusive life.

But for most people the journey towards the banality of evil is one very small step at a time. Lots and lots of seemingly innocuous choices, made every day, and adding up over the years. Adding up until they are just as deeply ensnared but the difference is that most of them don’t realise it, (and of course they’re not getting any of the exclusive life goodies).

Comfortably numb, as a band played a long time ago. They drift into it. They go with the flow. They believe what they are told and they do not question any form of authority that would risk piercing their world view. And there they stay.

I’m not a genius, not by any stretch of the imagination. But over the last few years I have the following batting average. I show this not to boast but merely to make a point.

I picked Donald Trump as the future winner of the 2016 presidential race the day that he nominated for the republican presidential candidate ticket.

I picked the Brexit vote very early.

I picked Trump losing in 2020 and winning in 2024.

I called out Covid for the lie that it was within a few weeks of the great lie beginning.

I warned everyone I could both in person and via my old website that taking the vaccines would be a very bad idea, and I took this stance as soon as the vaccines were announced.

On the outbreak of the Ukraine war I immediately called Russia as being the winner, and I understood that Russia’s strategy was not to conquer territory but to destroy Ukraine’s armies.

Apart from these major markers, over the past twenty years I have been consistent in the following appraisals: climate change is a scam designed for wealth redistribution; feminism is poison; mass immigration is war and will lead to massive internal conflicts and displacement of populations; homosexuality should be a capital crime; free trade is a scam; tariffs work and are beneficial for nations; there is no magic dirt; unrestrained capitalism is as bad as communism, if not worse; university degrees are almost all worthless; giving women the vote was a very bad idea; recycling is mostly ridiculous; all HR departments should be eliminated; the medical profession is not concerned with health, and I don’t trust microwaves.

There are many others, of course, but this is just off the top of my head. Today, many of these opinions are beginning to be considered acceptable. But five years ago? Ten years ago? Twenty years ago? Let’s just say, not so much.

The point is that I have a very strong track record of identifying truth. And I think that the main reason that I am able to consistently see through the bullshit is because I don’t drift. And through daily prayer I do my very best not to fall for the lies, because it is a daily assault.

Drifting is why people can’t see through the lies. Because they inhabit that world. There is quite certainly different levels of drifting. I personally know quite a number of people who haven’t fallen for the climate change rubbish, as but one example. But then those same people harangued me for not taking the vaccines.

It’s simply not possible to get through to someone who is a drifter. You cannot change their mind. No matter how much evidence you place before them, if they are tuned out then no signal will penetrate their drift.

And apparently the devil claims that 98% of people are drifting. That gels with my experience.

To finish off, today I saw a clip of a US doctor who faced 35 years in prison for administrating saline doses instead of the covid vaccine, but was today fully acquitted by a court of law. When asked why he took such an action he replied that he didn’t do it specifically for his patients or for the children, he did it because it was right. It was the right thing to do.

I would wager a fair amount of money that he is not a drifter. Living in the world of truth does not merely mean that you can recognise the lies for what they are. It also means that you have a good chance of finding the courage to do what is right, no matter the personal cost. Because that is the really big trap that the devil sets for us. Yes, he gets 98% of people through drifting. But don’t think that the other 2% get clean away. For them he sets the even bigger trap of indecision or fear to act on what you know. What percentage of the 2% does he ensnare in this way? I have no idea. But spotting the lies and recognising truth lumbers you with the awful responsibility of acting on your knowledge.

That is where Christianity is so powerful. It first helps you to see the truth for the lies, but then it also provides you with the courage to act and to do the right thing. Dr. McFillin titled his essay, The War for Your Mind, and it is a war. Our lives are a battle with spiritual forces, and this world is the battleground. We are here to fight, to do God’s will, and to prevail even if that means our earthly destruction.

So take heart, examine your conscience, examine your life. Are you drifting or are you in the 2%? If you are in the 2% do you act on your convictions or do you shy from battle? Adjust accordingly. It is in your power to do so. God gave us free will, but it’s up to us to use it.