Thanks to two acute conditions (neither of which is CV-19) concurrently afflicting me at the moment my keyboard time must be limited... so what I have in mind for today is a kind of annotated list. Its a bundle of Post-Corona awakenings that may or may not shock us from our collective stupor in time to save Western culture. Personally I hope they slap us hard upside the head.
Our mass media are a vast propaganda machine. We should have known this long ago: many of us did... but not enough of us. Now however the volume has been turned up. Chris Cuomos faux confinement to sick bay Brian Stelters narcissistic tear-letting Anand Giridharadas denouncing the freedom-obsessed" hypocrisy of our having built the nation on slavery and genocide... this is what we hear on CNN and MSMBC. Our local channels open their nightly blather with death tolls unindexed to numbers of infected to preexisting conditions to post mortem testing actually verifying cause of death. Their roving reporters compete to see who can wear the jauntiest mask in the most deserted locales as they chirp into a microphone half of whose layered microbes will easily penetrate the masks weave. Social media: Facebook accepts the W.H.O. as supreme arbiter of medical fact glibly vaporizing any post that strays from the party line (the Chinese Communist Party line)... both FB and Twitter join in trying to airbrush Judy Mikovits from human history; and Wikipedia in handling Mikovitss career explodes the rules of style to lard single sentences with the word discredited" (like the het hey ho ho" refrain of a wind-up-and-go protest).
You can only serve up buffalo chips so many times to the customers before they begin to complain that theyre not getting pancakes. At least this is a hope that I cherish.
The university system has burned down its own propaganda mill in a rabid zeal to be politically correct. I heard Dr. Mark Siegel declare to Tucker Carlson the other night that this hasnt happened and will not happenthat universities are too conscious of their role in conditioning statist automatons to keep their gates shut. I disagree. I think the Ivory Elite may be hoist on its own petard here. After all adherence of the masses to the will of Expertssurrender to the point of seeking permission to cross ones threshold of avoiding friends and family of renouncing ones livelihood of depending exclusively on Big Brother for a monthly checkis game set and match for the progressive phalanx. This is everything the leftist professoriate has ever dreamed of. That the dreams fulfillment also just happens to leave professors massively unemployed is... well one of the innumerable contradictions besetting the utopian vision from every angle. The totalitarian utopia is mass suicide. We know that we who have ears to hear.
On a purely practical level Dr. Siegel where will universities get the funding to remain open with the student body so depleted? Even if certain scab" campuses cross the virtue" line and resume business in August many students and their parents will have used spring and summer to rethink their insane investment in such an undependable and very dispensable program of conditioning. People move on. Whatever endures in the Halls of Ivy at any rate will probably not feature the words studies in" beside its catalogue description. The more objective disciplines will likely make a comeback: the squishy-mushy cults of victimhood will dry up and blow away.
So too (may one hope?) will the top-heavy administrative bureaucracies that police pronouns and hound boys from campus after pushing free sex" upon them.
The home-school movement will achieve escape velocity. Im not an inveterate enemy of public education; but in a matter obviously related to the one Ive just mentioned K-12 education has degenerated into Western-hostile race-baiting grievance-coddling claptrap. Bill Gates who has become highly recognizable as one of the more twisted wicked human beings on earth during these months (I wont bother to devote a separate item to him) apparently sees a chance to cash in here as he does in just about every incidence of calamity. His offer to educate New York States youth remotely by selling his software to every household appeals to fellow totalitarian travelers Cuomo and De Blasio... and that of course is no hope at all for the friends of freedom. On the other hand when we consider that Germany is already introducing toddlers to sex games in the public curriculum (straight from the pages of Brave New World) we have to understand that the progressive objective for tomorrows little red schoolhouse in this nation is likewise nothing less than the dissolution of the nuclear family. Pulverizing public schools as they currently exist wouldnt be a bad thing. What we rebuild from the fragments of rubble is another question... but Im not convinced that megalomaniac psychos like Gates will have an easy time gluing kids to screens and weaning them from their natural craving for social contact. Teaching children isnt equivalent to coaxing Polly wants a cracker" from a large bird. Progressives wish it were so and their vision requires that it be sobut heres another point where fiction collides hard with reality.
The importance of the Second Amendment has suddenly become very apparent even to slow learners. I confess that I myself used to be a little skeptical of the proposition that our neighbors who wear the blue would turn their guns on us if ordered by some tinpot dictator. Cops are human beings; and more than that theyre good citizens who serve the community. They risk their lives to help innocent people survive and prosper. They also swear the same oath to the Constitution as do state and federal legislators and most of them understand the words to which theyre pledging allegiance. How likely is it that such people upon some maniacs vaulting into the saddle of power after a mayoral or gubernatorial election would suddenly turn about and draw their weapons on one of us for using the wrong gender pronoun or for flying an American flag on Cinco de Mayo?
How likely? Somewhere between not unlikely" and very likely" it now appears. For every story about an Officer Greg Anderson (the Seattle patrolman suspended for posting a video confirming his fidelity to the Constitution) there seem to be four or five about cops cuffing mothers for taking their kids to the park or not wearing their masks properly. A SWAT team was unleashed upon a bar in West Texas last week where social distancing" was not being practiced adequately. Is it so difficult to imagine a Governor Northam or a Governor Whitmer in the future sending in an armed shock-team of child care services" Gestapo to steal children and cuff parents because Daddy refused to let Emily attend Trans Storytelling Day at the library?
This is precisely why we have a Second Amendment: i.e. so that the mindless henchmen and ambitious lackeys who surround tyrants will hesitate to invade a quiet neighborhood. If Daddy has a gun and Daddys neighbors have guns and their neighbors have gunsand if theres a good chance that the whole block will pour into the streets locked and loaded if squad cars come to spirit Emily awaythen our basic freedoms have a chance of surviving in the all-but-lawless future that awaits us. Otherwise we might as well start packing for the gulag (and as Solzhenitsyn has told us theres really not much need to pack).
Leftist mayors and governors have so eagerly slapped all their megalomaniac cards on the table that they may well be turned out massively in November. Even if Donald Trump fritters away the presidency and its coattail opportunities in House and Senate by refusing to admit that the Gates/Fauci Big Pharma/Wall Street complex duped him how does totalitarianism survive at the state level? Northam Whitmer CuomoNewsom Beshear Mills Hogan Murphy Wolf Evers Scott... what electorate would choose to have more lockdown surveillance moralistic harangue frisking home invasion and arrest without warrant under these petty fools lunatic harpies and jackbooted utopians? Maybe some of them endure after those who would have resisted have fled to other states. Otherwise... well I mustnt risk my credentials as a pessimist by projecting that the masses may have struck a rock-bottom of self-debasement and are now poised to rebound. But one can hope I suppose.
Finallyat long lastthe rank and file may be primed to understand the extreme peril in which our unsecured power grid sets us. President Trump deserves much credit for his executive order in spring of last year and a second this year both targeting the Sword of Damocles that has swayed over our heads for decades. Trump has fought this good fight virtually alone among elected officials. Bush did nothing Obama did nothing Democrat super-majorities did nothing in past years the recent Republican super-majority did nothingonly Trump has stood up to stingy stupid power companies on the one side (the conventionally Republican big-business side) and to Russia-and-China-placating New World Order ideologues on the other (the conventionally Democratbut ever more Swampublican"side). The President desperately needs to trumpet his virtuous defense of the nation instead of satirizing his opponents in the media and defending his role in locking down a once-healthy economy. He needs to swallow his ego and think of the millionsthe 300 million approximatelywho would lose their lives within a year if we went dark all across the continent. He needs to emphasize what his obtuse predecessor failed to remark: that no hostile attack is required to fry the gridthat an especially powerful solar flare (overdue by some estimates) would suffice. He needs to tap into the hysteria created by a hyped-up round of particularly nasty flu and redirect this paranoia to a sensible apprehension.
People are afraid for no reason at the moment. Presumably as the Black Plague dissolves into fifty shades of gray theyll go back to worrying about fish on their front lawns by the year 2030. Now is the time to give them something rational and substantial to worry about. Its also a great time to brand naysayers (since Trump so likes the game of branding) as Chinese Communist Party collaborators or just plain useful idiots. Its time for a touch of Joe McCarthy; because McCarthyoh by the waywas dead right about our systems being infused with those who would destroy it. Today he would be more right than ever.
If Donald Trump instead continues to kidney-punch Brian Kemp and to mince words about Anthony Faucis disastrous leadership then we quite probably get no securing of the grid in 2021 or 2022... and maybe the following year politics simply ceases to matter to the nine in ten of us who will painfully have checked out of this world.
Thanks to two acute conditions (neither of which is CV-19) concurrently afflicting me at the moment my keyboard time must be limited... so what I have in mind for today is a kind of annotated list. Its a bundle of Post-Corona awakenings that may or may not shock us from our collective stupor in time to save Western culture. Personally I hope they slap us hard upside the head.
Our mass media are a vast propaganda machine. We should have known this long ago: many of us did... but not enough of us. Now however the volume has been turned up. Chris Cuomos faux confinement to sick bay Brian Stelters narcissistic tear-letting Anand Giridharadas denouncing the freedom-obsessed" hypocrisy of our having built the nation on slavery and genocide... this is what we hear on CNN and MSMBC. Our local channels open their nightly blather with death tolls unindexed to numbers of infected to preexisting conditions to post mortem testing actually verifying cause of death. Their roving reporters compete to see who can wear the jauntiest mask in the most deserted locales as they chirp into a microphone half of whose layered microbes will easily penetrate the masks weave. Social media: Facebook accepts the W.H.O. as supreme arbiter of medical fact glibly vaporizing any post that strays from the party line (the Chinese Communist Party line)... both FB and Twitter join in trying to airbrush Judy Mikovits from human history; and Wikipedia in handling Mikovitss career explodes the rules of style to lard single sentences with the word discredited" (like the het hey ho ho" refrain of a wind-up-and-go protest).
You can only serve up buffalo chips so many times to the customers before they begin to complain that theyre not getting pancakes. At least this is a hope that I cherish.
The university system has burned down its own propaganda mill in a rabid zeal to be politically correct. I heard Dr. Mark Siegel declare to Tucker Carlson the other night that this hasnt happened and will not happenthat universities are too conscious of their role in conditioning statist automatons to keep their gates shut. I disagree. I think the Ivory Elite may be hoist on its own petard here. After all adherence of the masses to the will of Expertssurrender to the point of seeking permission to cross ones threshold of avoiding friends and family of renouncing ones livelihood of depending exclusively on Big Brother for a monthly checkis game set and match for the progressive phalanx. This is everything the leftist professoriate has ever dreamed of. That the dreams fulfillment also just happens to leave professors massively unemployed is... well one of the innumerable contradictions besetting the utopian vision from every angle. The totalitarian utopia is mass suicide. We know that we who have ears to hear.
On a purely practical level Dr. Siegel where will universities get the funding to remain open with the student body so depleted? Even if certain scab" campuses cross the virtue" line and resume business in August many students and their parents will have used spring and summer to rethink their insane investment in such an undependable and very dispensable program of conditioning. People move on. Whatever endures in the Halls of Ivy at any rate will probably not feature the words studies in" beside its catalogue description. The more objective disciplines will likely make a comeback: the squishy-mushy cults of victimhood will dry up and blow away.
So too (may one hope?) will the top-heavy administrative bureaucracies that police pronouns and hound boys from campus after pushing free sex" upon them.
The home-school movement will achieve escape velocity. Im not an inveterate enemy of public education; but in a matter obviously related to the one Ive just mentioned K-12 education has degenerated into Western-hostile race-baiting grievance-coddling claptrap. Bill Gates who has become highly recognizable as one of the more twisted wicked human beings on earth during these months (I wont bother to devote a separate item to him) apparently sees a chance to cash in here as he does in just about every incidence of calamity. His offer to educate New York States youth remotely by selling his software to every household appeals to fellow totalitarian travelers Cuomo and De Blasio... and that of course is no hope at all for the friends of freedom. On the other hand when we consider that Germany is already introducing toddlers to sex games in the public curriculum (straight from the pages of Brave New World) we have to understand that the progressive objective for tomorrows little red schoolhouse in this nation is likewise nothing less than the dissolution of the nuclear family. Pulverizing public schools as they currently exist wouldnt be a bad thing. What we rebuild from the fragments of rubble is another question... but Im not convinced that megalomaniac psychos like Gates will have an easy time gluing kids to screens and weaning them from their natural craving for social contact. Teaching children isnt equivalent to coaxing Polly wants a cracker" from a large bird. Progressives wish it were so and their vision requires that it be sobut heres another point where fiction collides hard with reality.
The importance of the Second Amendment has suddenly become very apparent even to slow learners. I confess that I myself used to be a little skeptical of the proposition that our neighbors who wear the blue would turn their guns on us if ordered by some tinpot dictator. Cops are human beings; and more than that theyre good citizens who serve the community. They risk their lives to help innocent people survive and prosper. They also swear the same oath to the Constitution as do state and federal legislators and most of them understand the words to which theyre pledging allegiance. How likely is it that such people upon some maniacs vaulting into the saddle of power after a mayoral or gubernatorial election would suddenly turn about and draw their weapons on one of us for using the wrong gender pronoun or for flying an American flag on Cinco de Mayo?
How likely? Somewhere between not unlikely" and very likely" it now appears. For every story about an Officer Greg Anderson (the Seattle patrolman suspended for posting a video confirming his fidelity to the Constitution) there seem to be four or five about cops cuffing mothers for taking their kids to the park or not wearing their masks properly. A SWAT team was unleashed upon a bar in West Texas last week where social distancing" was not being practiced adequately. Is it so difficult to imagine a Governor Northam or a Governor Whitmer in the future sending in an armed shock-team of child care services" Gestapo to steal children and cuff parents because Daddy refused to let Emily attend Trans Storytelling Day at the library?
This is precisely why we have a Second Amendment: i.e. so that the mindless henchmen and ambitious lackeys who surround tyrants will hesitate to invade a quiet neighborhood. If Daddy has a gun and Daddys neighbors have guns and their neighbors have gunsand if theres a good chance that the whole block will pour into the streets locked and loaded if squad cars come to spirit Emily awaythen our basic freedoms have a chance of surviving in the all-but-lawless future that awaits us. Otherwise we might as well start packing for the gulag (and as Solzhenitsyn has told us theres really not much need to pack).
Leftist mayors and governors have so eagerly slapped all their megalomaniac cards on the table that they may well be turned out massively in November. Even if Donald Trump fritters away the presidency and its coattail opportunities in House and Senate by refusing to admit that the Gates/Fauci Big Pharma/Wall Street complex duped him how does totalitarianism survive at the state level? Northam Whitmer CuomoNewsom Beshear Mills Hogan Murphy Wolf Evers Scott... what electorate would choose to have more lockdown surveillance moralistic harangue frisking home invasion and arrest without warrant under these petty fools lunatic harpies and jackbooted utopians? Maybe some of them endure after those who would have resisted have fled to other states. Otherwise... well I mustnt risk my credentials as a pessimist by projecting that the masses may have struck a rock-bottom of self-debasement and are now poised to rebound. But one can hope I suppose.
Finallyat long lastthe rank and file may be primed to understand the extreme peril in which our unsecured power grid sets us. President Trump deserves much credit for his executive order in spring of last year and a second this year both targeting the Sword of Damocles that has swayed over our heads for decades. Trump has fought this good fight virtually alone among elected officials. Bush did nothing Obama did nothing Democrat super-majorities did nothing in past years the recent Republican super-majority did nothingonly Trump has stood up to stingy stupid power companies on the one side (the conventionally Republican big-business side) and to Russia-and-China-placating New World Order ideologues on the other (the conventionally Democratbut ever more Swampublican"side). The President desperately needs to trumpet his virtuous defense of the nation instead of satirizing his opponents in the media and defending his role in locking down a once-healthy economy. He needs to swallow his ego and think of the millionsthe 300 million approximatelywho would lose their lives within a year if we went dark all across the continent. He needs to emphasize what his obtuse predecessor failed to remark: that no hostile attack is required to fry the gridthat an especially powerful solar flare (overdue by some estimates) would suffice. He needs to tap into the hysteria created by a hyped-up round of particularly nasty flu and redirect this paranoia to a sensible apprehension.
People are afraid for no reason at the moment. Presumably as the Black Plague dissolves into fifty shades of gray theyll go back to worrying about fish on their front lawns by the year 2030. Now is the time to give them something rational and substantial to worry about. Its also a great time to brand naysayers (since Trump so likes the game of branding) as Chinese Communist Party collaborators or just plain useful idiots. Its time for a touch of Joe McCarthy; because McCarthyoh by the waywas dead right about our systems being infused with those who would destroy it. Today he would be more right than ever.
If Donald Trump instead continues to kidney-punch Brian Kemp and to mince words about Anthony Faucis disastrous leadership then we quite probably get no securing of the grid in 2021 or 2022... and maybe the following year politics simply ceases to matter to the nine in ten of us who will painfully have checked out of this world.