By Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Dear Jews:
Sincerely,
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Fake News Fake Bombs
Fake News Fake Bombs
By Expotera
October 24, 2018
Earlier today the U.S.mainstream media and the, "Democrat Party"
showed the entire world just how truly pathetic as well as just how
truly, "Desperate" all of them have now become by sending a bunch
of, "Fake Bombs" to themselves in an extremely poor and extremely
obvious attempt to create some more, "Fake News" for themselves
as well.
You see below for your independent, objective, and thoughtful
review is a picture of one of the, "Fake Bombs" that was supposedly
sent to the, "Fake News" organization now known as, "CNN" and
what immediately jumped out at me was why aren’t any of these
stamps already stamped, "Cancelled" and since when does it cost
and/or only take, "Six Stamps" to mail a pipe bomb?
Also When you contrast this alleged, “pipe bomb” to the size of the
stamps, this so-called, “pipe bomb” seems to be a little bit bigger
than a very small tube of, "Chapstick" as well.
Apparently I am not alone in regards to all of this because retired Lt
Cdr Thomas Sauer, a US Naval Academy graduate who served as the
Commanding Officer of a Naval EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal)
unit, also had some rather interesting observations in regards to all
of this.
Earlier today Lt Cdr Thomas Sauer, openly stated on his personal
Twitter account, "Proper bombs don't have wires connected on
both ends. That's dumb."
Now with all of this being said and done, you really, really, really,
have to openly wonder if the U.S. mainstream media and the,
"Democrat Party" are honestly this, "Dumb" as well as honestly this,
"Stupid" to think that anyone with an I.Q. score above, "20" would
now believe any of this??
So inclosing, "desperate is what desperate does" and apparently
the U.S. mainstream media and the, "Democrat Party" now truly
represent the most, "Pathetic" as well as truly, truly, the most,
"Desperate" individuals who are currently walking this earth and
nothing is going to change until these individuals are no longer
walking on this earth.
To enlarge this image simply left click directly on the image 👌
By Expotera
October 24, 2018
Earlier today the U.S.mainstream media and the, "Democrat Party"
showed the entire world just how truly pathetic as well as just how
truly, "Desperate" all of them have now become by sending a bunch
of, "Fake Bombs" to themselves in an extremely poor and extremely
obvious attempt to create some more, "Fake News" for themselves
as well.
You see below for your independent, objective, and thoughtful
review is a picture of one of the, "Fake Bombs" that was supposedly
sent to the, "Fake News" organization now known as, "CNN" and
what immediately jumped out at me was why aren’t any of these
stamps already stamped, "Cancelled" and since when does it cost
and/or only take, "Six Stamps" to mail a pipe bomb?
Also When you contrast this alleged, “pipe bomb” to the size of the
stamps, this so-called, “pipe bomb” seems to be a little bit bigger
than a very small tube of, "Chapstick" as well.
Apparently I am not alone in regards to all of this because retired Lt
Cdr Thomas Sauer, a US Naval Academy graduate who served as the
Commanding Officer of a Naval EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal)
unit, also had some rather interesting observations in regards to all
of this.
Earlier today Lt Cdr Thomas Sauer, openly stated on his personal
Twitter account, "Proper bombs don't have wires connected on
both ends. That's dumb."
Now with all of this being said and done, you really, really, really,
have to openly wonder if the U.S. mainstream media and the,
"Democrat Party" are honestly this, "Dumb" as well as honestly this,
"Stupid" to think that anyone with an I.Q. score above, "20" would
now believe any of this??
So inclosing, "desperate is what desperate does" and apparently
the U.S. mainstream media and the, "Democrat Party" now truly
represent the most, "Pathetic" as well as truly, truly, the most,
"Desperate" individuals who are currently walking this earth and
nothing is going to change until these individuals are no longer
walking on this earth.
To enlarge this image simply left click directly on the image 👌
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Putin Lays Down The Law At Valdai
Putin Lays Down The Law At Valdai
By Thomas Luongo
LewRockwell.com
October 23, 2018
Every year Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Valdai
Economic Forum.
And each year his talk is important.
Putin isn’t one to mince words on important issues.
With tensions between Russia and the West reaching Cold War
levels, Valdai represented the first time we’ve heard Putin speak
in a long-form discussion since Helsinki and the events thereafter
— IL-20, Khashoggi, etc.
So, this talk is worth everyone’s time.
And when I say everyone’s I mean every single person who could
be affected by the breakdown of the U.S. political system and
how that spills over onto Russia’s shores.
In other words, pretty much everyone on the planet.
Because what Putin did at Valdai was to lay down the new rules
of conduct in geopolitical affairs.
He put the U.S. and European oligarchs I call The Davos Crowd
on notice.
There is a limit to your provocations and attempts to undermine
Russia.
So don’t cross that line.
Peace Through Strength
The big quote from his talk is the one everyone is focusing on,
and rightly so, Russia’s policy about using nuclear weapons.
It’s not that Putin’s stance was any different than in the past.
Russia will strike back at an aggressor under any circumstance
where the future of Russia is at stake.
It was his assurance that in doing so 1) it would be just and
righteous “dying like martyrs” and 2) so swift and brutal the
aggressors would “die like dogs” bereft of the chance to ask
for salvation.
Those are strong words.
They are the words of a meek man.
And the word meek, as Jordan Peterson reminds us, describes
someone who has weapons, knows how to use them and keeps
them sheathed until they have no other option.
The reaction from the audience was nervous laughter,
but I don’t think Putin was having one over on anyone.
He was serious.
This is the very definition of meek.
It is really no different than the attitude of Secretary of State
James Mattis who said, “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery.
But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f$*k with
me, I’ll kill you all.”
Men like this are not to be tested too hard.
And Putin’s response to the shooting down of the IL-20 plane and its
crew was to cross a bunch of diplomatic lines by handing out S-300s
to Syria and erecting a de facto no-fly zone over Western Syria and
the Eastern Mediterranean.
Notice how there have been no attacks or even harsh language
coming out of Israel or the U.S. in the past few weeks.
The failure of the British/French/Israeli operation to sucker Trump
into an invasion of Syria is now complete.
And I’m convinced that Nikki Haley paid the price.
All of this highlights the major theme that came out of Putin’s
comments.
Strength through resolve.
Resolve comes as a consequence of defending culture.
Putin wasn’t boasting or grandstanding about Russia’s hypersonic
weapons capability.
He told everyone they are deployed.
He did this to shut up the U.S. neoconservative chattering class who
he rightly says whisper in President Trump’s ear that they can win a
nuclear conflict with Russia.
"They are insane. And you have to treat them that way."
Culture First
Putin sees himself, quite rightly, as the custodian of the Russian
people and, as such, the Russian state as the reflection of Russian
culture.
If you are going to have a state and someone is going to be the
head of it, this is the attitude that you want from that person.
In his dialogue with an Orthodox priest Putin wholeheartedly agreed
with the idea that “the state cannot dictate culture” but rather, at
best, be the facilitator of it through its applications of law.
In a back and forth with a very enthusiastic Russian dairy farmer,
who was quite proud of his cheese, Putin reminded the man that
while he loved sanctions (from European competition) protecting
his business today he should not get used to them.
They will be removed at some point and the farmer would have
to stand on his own wits to survive in the international market.
Putin understands that subsidies breed sloth.
That was a message he made loud and clear.
It’s why when the sanctions first went into effect in 2014 over the
reunification of Crimea and during the Ruble crisis Putin shifted
state subsidies away from the petroleum sector which had thrived
and gotten soft during years of $100+/bbl oil and shifted that
money to agriculture.
The fruits of that successful policy shift he confronted head
on at Valdai.
Russia’s food production across all sectors is flourishing thanks to a
cheap ruble, which the U.S. keeps beating down via sanctions, and
the Russian state getting out of the way of investment.
At the time he incurred the wrath of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin
and Putin ignored him, much to everyone’s surprise.
The message was clear, we’ll help you out of your current troubles
but it’s time to do business differently.
Because it was Rosneft that needed the biggest bailouts in late
2014/early 2015 having tens of billions in dollar-denominated debt
which couldn’t be rolled over thanks to the sanctions.
The Limits of Empire
Ultimately, Putin looked resigned, if confused, to the insanity
emanating from U.S. policy.
But it’s obvious to him that Russia cannot get caught up in the
tit-for-tat nuisances put up to derail Russia’s future.
He mentioned the Empire loses its way because it believed itself
invulnerable or as my dad used to say about certain athletes,
“He reads his own press clippings too much.”
There is a solipsism that infects dominant societies which creates
the kind of over-reactions we’re witnessing today.
Power is slipping away from the U.S. and Trump is both helping the
process along while also trying to preserve the core of what’s left.
And no interaction during Putin’s talk was more indicative of his
view of the U.S. empire than his interaction with a Japanese
delegate who asked him about signing a peace treaty with Japan.
And Putin’s answer was clear.
It’s Japan’s pride and political entanglements that preclude
this from happening.
Signing the peace treaty is not necessary to solving ownership
of the Kuril Islands.
Russia and Japan are both diminished by having this obstacle
in the way.
The issue can resolve itself after the peace treaty is signed.
The current state of things is silly and anachronistic and keep
the divide between Russians and Japanese from healing.
Create trust through agreement then move forward.
That’s what is happening between Russia and Egypt and that
is why Putin is winning the diplomatic war.
And it’s why Trump is losing the diplomatic war.
Putin knows where Trump is.
He was there himself seventeen years ago, except an order
of magnitude worse.
The problems Trump is facing are the same problems Putin faced,
corruption, venality, treason all contributing to a collapse in
societal and cultural institutions.
Putin knows the U.S. is at a crossroads, and he’s made his peace
with whatever comes next.
The question is have we?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/thomas-luongo/putin-lays-
down-the-law-at-valdai
By Thomas Luongo
LewRockwell.com
October 23, 2018
Every year Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Valdai
Economic Forum.
And each year his talk is important.
Putin isn’t one to mince words on important issues.
With tensions between Russia and the West reaching Cold War
levels, Valdai represented the first time we’ve heard Putin speak
in a long-form discussion since Helsinki and the events thereafter
— IL-20, Khashoggi, etc.
So, this talk is worth everyone’s time.
And when I say everyone’s I mean every single person who could
be affected by the breakdown of the U.S. political system and
how that spills over onto Russia’s shores.
In other words, pretty much everyone on the planet.
Because what Putin did at Valdai was to lay down the new rules
of conduct in geopolitical affairs.
He put the U.S. and European oligarchs I call The Davos Crowd
on notice.
There is a limit to your provocations and attempts to undermine
Russia.
So don’t cross that line.
Peace Through Strength
The big quote from his talk is the one everyone is focusing on,
and rightly so, Russia’s policy about using nuclear weapons.
It’s not that Putin’s stance was any different than in the past.
Russia will strike back at an aggressor under any circumstance
where the future of Russia is at stake.
It was his assurance that in doing so 1) it would be just and
righteous “dying like martyrs” and 2) so swift and brutal the
aggressors would “die like dogs” bereft of the chance to ask
for salvation.
Those are strong words.
They are the words of a meek man.
And the word meek, as Jordan Peterson reminds us, describes
someone who has weapons, knows how to use them and keeps
them sheathed until they have no other option.
The reaction from the audience was nervous laughter,
but I don’t think Putin was having one over on anyone.
He was serious.
This is the very definition of meek.
It is really no different than the attitude of Secretary of State
James Mattis who said, “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery.
But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f$*k with
me, I’ll kill you all.”
Men like this are not to be tested too hard.
And Putin’s response to the shooting down of the IL-20 plane and its
crew was to cross a bunch of diplomatic lines by handing out S-300s
to Syria and erecting a de facto no-fly zone over Western Syria and
the Eastern Mediterranean.
Notice how there have been no attacks or even harsh language
coming out of Israel or the U.S. in the past few weeks.
The failure of the British/French/Israeli operation to sucker Trump
into an invasion of Syria is now complete.
And I’m convinced that Nikki Haley paid the price.
All of this highlights the major theme that came out of Putin’s
comments.
Strength through resolve.
Resolve comes as a consequence of defending culture.
Putin wasn’t boasting or grandstanding about Russia’s hypersonic
weapons capability.
He told everyone they are deployed.
He did this to shut up the U.S. neoconservative chattering class who
he rightly says whisper in President Trump’s ear that they can win a
nuclear conflict with Russia.
"They are insane. And you have to treat them that way."
Culture First
Putin sees himself, quite rightly, as the custodian of the Russian
people and, as such, the Russian state as the reflection of Russian
culture.
If you are going to have a state and someone is going to be the
head of it, this is the attitude that you want from that person.
In his dialogue with an Orthodox priest Putin wholeheartedly agreed
with the idea that “the state cannot dictate culture” but rather, at
best, be the facilitator of it through its applications of law.
In a back and forth with a very enthusiastic Russian dairy farmer,
who was quite proud of his cheese, Putin reminded the man that
while he loved sanctions (from European competition) protecting
his business today he should not get used to them.
They will be removed at some point and the farmer would have
to stand on his own wits to survive in the international market.
Putin understands that subsidies breed sloth.
That was a message he made loud and clear.
It’s why when the sanctions first went into effect in 2014 over the
reunification of Crimea and during the Ruble crisis Putin shifted
state subsidies away from the petroleum sector which had thrived
and gotten soft during years of $100+/bbl oil and shifted that
money to agriculture.
The fruits of that successful policy shift he confronted head
on at Valdai.
Russia’s food production across all sectors is flourishing thanks to a
cheap ruble, which the U.S. keeps beating down via sanctions, and
the Russian state getting out of the way of investment.
At the time he incurred the wrath of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin
and Putin ignored him, much to everyone’s surprise.
The message was clear, we’ll help you out of your current troubles
but it’s time to do business differently.
Because it was Rosneft that needed the biggest bailouts in late
2014/early 2015 having tens of billions in dollar-denominated debt
which couldn’t be rolled over thanks to the sanctions.
The Limits of Empire
Ultimately, Putin looked resigned, if confused, to the insanity
emanating from U.S. policy.
But it’s obvious to him that Russia cannot get caught up in the
tit-for-tat nuisances put up to derail Russia’s future.
He mentioned the Empire loses its way because it believed itself
invulnerable or as my dad used to say about certain athletes,
“He reads his own press clippings too much.”
There is a solipsism that infects dominant societies which creates
the kind of over-reactions we’re witnessing today.
Power is slipping away from the U.S. and Trump is both helping the
process along while also trying to preserve the core of what’s left.
And no interaction during Putin’s talk was more indicative of his
view of the U.S. empire than his interaction with a Japanese
delegate who asked him about signing a peace treaty with Japan.
And Putin’s answer was clear.
It’s Japan’s pride and political entanglements that preclude
this from happening.
Signing the peace treaty is not necessary to solving ownership
of the Kuril Islands.
Russia and Japan are both diminished by having this obstacle
in the way.
The issue can resolve itself after the peace treaty is signed.
The current state of things is silly and anachronistic and keep
the divide between Russians and Japanese from healing.
Create trust through agreement then move forward.
That’s what is happening between Russia and Egypt and that
is why Putin is winning the diplomatic war.
And it’s why Trump is losing the diplomatic war.
Putin knows where Trump is.
He was there himself seventeen years ago, except an order
of magnitude worse.
The problems Trump is facing are the same problems Putin faced,
corruption, venality, treason all contributing to a collapse in
societal and cultural institutions.
Putin knows the U.S. is at a crossroads, and he’s made his peace
with whatever comes next.
The question is have we?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/10/thomas-luongo/putin-lays-
down-the-law-at-valdai
Sunday, October 21, 2018
The Garden
The Garden
By Rush
October 21, 2018
In this one of many possible worlds,
All for the best or some bizarre test?
It is what it is and whatever,
Time is still the infinite jest
The arrow flies when you dream,
The hours tick away,
The cells tick away
The Watchmaker keeps to his schemes,
The hours tick away,
They tick away
The measure of a life,
Is a measure of love and respect,
So hard to earn so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
In the rise and the set of the sun,
'Til the stars go spinning,
Spinning 'round the night,
Oh, it is what it is, and forever,
Each moment a memory in flight
The arrow flies while you breathe,
The hours tick away,
The cells tick away
The Watchmaker has time up his sleeve,
The hours tick away,
They tick away
The measure of a life,
Is a measure of love and respect,
So hard to earn so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
(It's a measure of a life)
The treasure of a life,
Is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live,
The gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect
The future disappears into memory,
With only a moment between,
Forever dwells in that moment,
Hope is what remains to be seen
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
By Rush
October 21, 2018
In this one of many possible worlds,
All for the best or some bizarre test?
It is what it is and whatever,
Time is still the infinite jest
The arrow flies when you dream,
The hours tick away,
The cells tick away
The Watchmaker keeps to his schemes,
The hours tick away,
They tick away
The measure of a life,
Is a measure of love and respect,
So hard to earn so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
In the rise and the set of the sun,
'Til the stars go spinning,
Spinning 'round the night,
Oh, it is what it is, and forever,
Each moment a memory in flight
The arrow flies while you breathe,
The hours tick away,
The cells tick away
The Watchmaker has time up his sleeve,
The hours tick away,
They tick away
The measure of a life,
Is a measure of love and respect,
So hard to earn so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
(It's a measure of a life)
The treasure of a life,
Is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live,
The gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect
The future disappears into memory,
With only a moment between,
Forever dwells in that moment,
Hope is what remains to be seen
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
(It's a measure of a life)
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Dear Republicans
Dear Republicans
By President Donald J. Trump
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Dear Republicans:
Sincerely,
By President Donald J. Trump
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Dear Republicans:
Sincerely,
Sunday, October 7, 2018
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
By Expotera
October 7, 2018
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does
what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Justice will not be served until those unaffected are as outraged
as those who are. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Justice delayed is democracy denied. ~ President John F. Kennedy
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but
in finding out the right, and upholding it, wherever found, against
the wrong. ~ President Theodore Roosevelt
Justice is truth in action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is
just is powerful, and whatever is powerful is just. ~ Blaise Pascal.
Justice will only exist when the truth is honoured. ~ Hina
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
~ Hearclitus
Justice is the sum of all moral duty. ~ William Godwin
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
~ President Woodrow Wilson
Justice, only justice shalt thou pursue. ~ Deuteronomy 16:20
Justice will prevail. ~ Tsugumi Ohba
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court
Justice on October 6, 2018.
By Expotera
October 7, 2018
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does
what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Justice will not be served until those unaffected are as outraged
as those who are. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Justice delayed is democracy denied. ~ President John F. Kennedy
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but
in finding out the right, and upholding it, wherever found, against
the wrong. ~ President Theodore Roosevelt
Justice is truth in action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is
just is powerful, and whatever is powerful is just. ~ Blaise Pascal.
Justice will only exist when the truth is honoured. ~ Hina
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
~ Hearclitus
Justice is the sum of all moral duty. ~ William Godwin
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
~ President Woodrow Wilson
Justice, only justice shalt thou pursue. ~ Deuteronomy 16:20
Justice will prevail. ~ Tsugumi Ohba
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court
Justice on October 6, 2018.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Imaginary Monsters
Imaginary Monsters
By James Howard Kunstler
RINF.com
October 4, 2018
The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in
contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social,
economic, and political collapse that I call the long emergency:
the destruction of all remaining categorical boundaries for
understanding behavior: truth and untruth, innocent and guilty,
childhood and adulthood, public and private.
The destination of all this confusion is a society that can’t process
any quarrel coherently, leaving everyone unsatisfied and adrift,
and no actual problems resolved.
One element of the story is clear, though.
The Democratic party in the absence of real monsters to slay has
become the party devoted to sowing chaos, mainly by inventing
new, "Imaginary Monsters" using the machinery of politics, the
way the Catholic Church manufactured monsters of heresy during
the Spanish Inquisition in its attempt to regulate “belief.”
“I believe her” is the new totalitarian rallying cry, conveniently
disposing of any obligation to establish the facts of any ambiguous matter.
It was stealthily inserted in our national life during the Obama
years, when Title IX “guidelines” originally written to correct
imbalances in college sports funding for men and women were
extended to adjudicate sexual encounters on campus.
The result was the setting up of officially sanctioned kangaroo
courts where due process was thrown out the window — by people
who have should have known better: college presidents, deans,
and faculty.
That experiment produced not a few spectacular injustices such as
the Duke Lacrosse team fake rape fiasco, the University of Virginia
fake rape fraternity incident (provoked by a mis-reported story in
Rolling Stone Magazine), and the Columbia University, “Mattress
Girl” saga — all cases eventuating in punishing lawsuits against the
institutions that allowed them to spin out of control.
The spirit of the kangaroo court has since graduated into business
and politics where it has proven especially useful for settling scores
and advancing careers and agendas dishonestly.
Coercion has replaced persuasion.
Coercion is at the heart of totalitarian politics.
Do what you’re told, or else. Believe what we say, or else. (Or else
lose your reputation, your livelihood, your friends….)
This plays neatly into the dynamics of human mob psychology.
When the totalitarians set up for business, few individuals dare
to depart from the party line.
It’s the perfect medium for cultivating mendacious ideologies.
And so many Americans may be wondering these days whether
the ideas and principles that have held this country together,
even through a disastrous civil war, can endure through a long
emergency of exogenous events so overwhelming that we dare
not even debate them publicly.
These are climate change, the crack-up of a debt-based money
system, the winding–down of techno-industrial economy, and
the ecological destruction of the only planet that human beings
call home.
Of course, the lives of societies, like everything else in a
living universe, unfold emergently.
Which is to say that circumstances are in the driver’s seat
taking us where they will whether we like it or not.
What humans can do is decide how to ride these events.
For the moment, America has opted for a grand circus of
sexual hysteria.
It’s really an easy, lazy choice because sex is full of easily
manipulated tensions and ambiguities prone to melodramatic
misrepresentation.
Next on tap for this beleaguered nation will be a constitutional
crisis and a financial crisis.
It’s difficult to predict the order of their unfolding except to say
that these will open up a maelstrom of losses which will then be
hard to either adjudicate or correct, once our system of law is
compromised.
As this occurs all the raging hysteria over sex will be overshadowed
by real existential issues as the people lose their homes, incomes,
and futures and desperately search for a way out of more chaos
than they bargained for.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/imaginary-monsters-lewrockwell
By James Howard Kunstler
RINF.com
October 4, 2018
The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in
contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social,
economic, and political collapse that I call the long emergency:
the destruction of all remaining categorical boundaries for
understanding behavior: truth and untruth, innocent and guilty,
childhood and adulthood, public and private.
The destination of all this confusion is a society that can’t process
any quarrel coherently, leaving everyone unsatisfied and adrift,
and no actual problems resolved.
One element of the story is clear, though.
The Democratic party in the absence of real monsters to slay has
become the party devoted to sowing chaos, mainly by inventing
new, "Imaginary Monsters" using the machinery of politics, the
way the Catholic Church manufactured monsters of heresy during
the Spanish Inquisition in its attempt to regulate “belief.”
“I believe her” is the new totalitarian rallying cry, conveniently
disposing of any obligation to establish the facts of any ambiguous matter.
It was stealthily inserted in our national life during the Obama
years, when Title IX “guidelines” originally written to correct
imbalances in college sports funding for men and women were
extended to adjudicate sexual encounters on campus.
The result was the setting up of officially sanctioned kangaroo
courts where due process was thrown out the window — by people
who have should have known better: college presidents, deans,
and faculty.
That experiment produced not a few spectacular injustices such as
the Duke Lacrosse team fake rape fiasco, the University of Virginia
fake rape fraternity incident (provoked by a mis-reported story in
Rolling Stone Magazine), and the Columbia University, “Mattress
Girl” saga — all cases eventuating in punishing lawsuits against the
institutions that allowed them to spin out of control.
The spirit of the kangaroo court has since graduated into business
and politics where it has proven especially useful for settling scores
and advancing careers and agendas dishonestly.
Coercion has replaced persuasion.
Coercion is at the heart of totalitarian politics.
Do what you’re told, or else. Believe what we say, or else. (Or else
lose your reputation, your livelihood, your friends….)
This plays neatly into the dynamics of human mob psychology.
When the totalitarians set up for business, few individuals dare
to depart from the party line.
It’s the perfect medium for cultivating mendacious ideologies.
And so many Americans may be wondering these days whether
the ideas and principles that have held this country together,
even through a disastrous civil war, can endure through a long
emergency of exogenous events so overwhelming that we dare
not even debate them publicly.
These are climate change, the crack-up of a debt-based money
system, the winding–down of techno-industrial economy, and
the ecological destruction of the only planet that human beings
call home.
Of course, the lives of societies, like everything else in a
living universe, unfold emergently.
Which is to say that circumstances are in the driver’s seat
taking us where they will whether we like it or not.
What humans can do is decide how to ride these events.
For the moment, America has opted for a grand circus of
sexual hysteria.
It’s really an easy, lazy choice because sex is full of easily
manipulated tensions and ambiguities prone to melodramatic
misrepresentation.
Next on tap for this beleaguered nation will be a constitutional
crisis and a financial crisis.
It’s difficult to predict the order of their unfolding except to say
that these will open up a maelstrom of losses which will then be
hard to either adjudicate or correct, once our system of law is
compromised.
As this occurs all the raging hysteria over sex will be overshadowed
by real existential issues as the people lose their homes, incomes,
and futures and desperately search for a way out of more chaos
than they bargained for.
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