Georges Bernanos: Plea for Liberty - Letter to the Americans Part 3 Finale

Send us Fan MailIt is evident from Bernanos writing that he has the voracious ability to move minds and shake foundational conventions and presumptions.We must ask ourselves in times of crisis, greed, propaganda, and war are the "free people's" of the world confusing freedom with peace?It is past time that institutions can save man. The reality is that first man must come to an understanding by his own soul and then, on the horizon, the miracle of childhood and heroism can save man. For God makes use of the church even when rich prelates cherish the illusion that they are making use of him. I do not mean a renewal or revolt of Christian honor in the religious sense. People, at times, too often that it becomes custom, falsely believe the dictatorship of the proletariat that they are under (or when it comes into place) is theirs when in fact any dictatorship is a dictatorship of the bureaucrats and police."I believe I have always been a free man. My fondness for liberty is not merely platonic or sentimental. It is not enough for me that my liberty be proclaimed by law. Beyond this, I wish to know what means the law has at its disposal to defend my liberty."The freedom of the press is a great constitutional right, but it is corrupted when people use it as an excuse not to think at all, merely to further their own advantage, or worse, use it as a means of conforming ones opinion to the masses of society or to support ones point of view. These malicious versions of freedom of thought becomes "beneficial to swindlers at political rallies."Bernanos expected free men, who have greatly suffered in their spirit and their souls, would come to teach the Europe and the world an important lesson in liberty that freedom is an inner strength and power of the soul that can't be taught to anyone, it is only manifest by experience. Freedom, inadvertently, is seen as something comfortable and easy when in fact it should be the most magnificent and ultimate of risks.One only blasphemes a thing that they love or believe in. No law can make up for the decay of spirits and hearts. Men, of the unwritten law of justice and the spirit, protect the weak.The problem doesn't relate to the abuse of power, rather it lies in the Democrats arbitrary use of power (Similar to what Montesquieu says).A living master of blood not ink to stop the movement of one type of conformism moving to another, one type of dictatorship transitioning to another, and lastly to put an end to the totalitarian herds.Freedom merely becomes a legal abstraction declared and defined by the lawyers when there is a deficiency in the proportion of free men and women in a given society.