Peak Hubris

Peak Hubris

By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
November 18, 2019

“Hubris” is defined as rash and foolish pride, a dangerous
overconfidence, manifested with arrogance.

The Deep State vaunts our, “exceptionalism” and since Reagan’s,
“City on a Hill” trope Americans have been assured by all
succeeding Presidents that ours is the, “indispensible nation”.

The word describes the way America sells itself to the world
and has for generations.

The yawning cognitive gap between our nomenklatura’s relentless
self-promotion and its pathetic history of botched and humiliating
failures in every single act of Imperial overreach, demands examination.

Are we at Peak Hubris?

When exactly should the hubris of a vicious, lying, sloganeering
criminal state be identified as what it is, a cover for unhinged
stupidity?

Viz. the deranged, hysterical Democratic Party, a subsidiary of
the Deep State, led--if that term applies--by a geriatric clutch of
morally squalid throwbacks and vacuous nonentities, which has
its, "Depends" in a knot in the effort to blame the entire debacle
of recent U.S. historic crime on the Republican, "Yahoo" squatting
in the White House.

As Einstein observed, all explanations should be as simple as
possible...but no simpler.

Of all the villainies attributed to Trump by Democrats and the Deep
State--the Power Elite, Establishment, Ruling Clique, Permanent
Unelected Government--the most egregious and only unforgivable
one, is that his gross and vulgar bathos in Holy Office has exposed
and profoundly embarrassed them, punching holes in their
diligently crafted image.

The Masters of Disaster can’t tolerate open revelation of their evil,
witness the methodical crushing of a roster of whistleblowers,
among whom the most damning and brutally handled are Manning,
Assange, and Snowden.

Two are jailed on bogus, “charges” in peril of their lives and
Snowden is in exile only free because the vengeful engine of
American, “justice” can’t nail him.

The three have exposed the hubris of, “Exceptional America” far
more substantively and damagingly than any of Trump’s blundering
has done and produced damning indictments of its despicable
nature that assured their dragooning.

Their work has done much more to trash and pulverize the
mythology of, "The Empire" but the operators of the propaganda
machine have managed to hide the vast bulk of it from public
awareness, a feat they couldn’t manage with Trump’s ranting,
erratic, diplomacy.

Moreover, the Deep State has been able to crush or stifle these
heroes, but can’t seem to find a way to give Trump the hook
short of terminating him with extreme prejudice, which they
haven’t had the balls to do... yet.

They’ve had to settle, so far, for anathematizing him as the sole
source of the betrayal of America’s exalted values and principles.

The reality is that America has made it ironclad policy to install,
support and enrich a gang of the vilest, most murderous dictators,
tyrants, caudillos and royal brutes in history behind its sinister
fairy tale of principled benevolence.

Their names fill pages but let Pinochet, The Shah, Mobutu,
Papa Doc, Marcos, Somoza, Kagame, and Mubarak stand as
examples.

To be, “our son-of-a-bitch” was simple: crush your people’s
aspirations, kill their leaders, drain their economic blood, sell
off their resources to Rape Capitalism for pennies on the dollar,
and borrow billions from our IMF, taking only a modest 10% or
so for your trouble.

And keep the clamps on hard with torture, rape and murder
so nothing queers the deal for you and Uncle.

The only, “dictators” America despises are those who refuse as
Qaddafi, Saddam and Assad did, to knuckle and suck, or those with
the muscle, wisdom and grit to balk and baffle our folly, as Putin
and Xi do routinely.

This dirty hidden history that the three heroes’ work has revealed
is the reason the Deep State knows it has to destroy Trump.

His loose cannon, ADD follies, and zany impulses draw attention to
their documenting of American crimes while blocking The Empire
from retaking control of the game so it can function as it goddam
pleases, the way it always has.

The single paramount commandment in the Deep State’s tablet of
laws is that nothing must threaten the profits of the War Machine,
and certainly not anything that benefits only The People.

Very clear on this, the Democratic Party, richly suckled by the,
“defense industry” excoriates Trump for his efforts to end a
small war or two, while still advancing the, "Totenkopf Banner"
of the War Machine to the satisfaction of the Deep State.

Major problem, though.

Americans not braindead are sick of endless war, which puts them
at serious odds with the War Machine and the party that glorifies it.

Virulent hatred of Putin and Russia, coupled with the raging lust
to murder ignorant, guiltless peasants and destitute slum dwellers
is no longer a foolproof formula for swelling the ranks of the liberal
faithful.

Which raises (but does not beg) the key question: are we indeed
at Peak Hubris?

Judging by the loss of traction that pure American horseshit
braggadocio from our organs of propaganda is having
internationally, one would have to say we have.

After the long line--beginning at division of Europe, solidified by
stalemate in Korea--of shameful military muggings, half-assed
regime change pratfalls, and humiliating downright defeats, it
is at last becoming clear to the wizards behind the curtain that
hubris ain’t cuttin‘ it no more.

The powerful Exceptionalist Myth, the central tenet of our
catechism, which is the basis of the whole crevassed, dissolving
superstructure of The Empire, the supreme, "Big Lie" upon which
our entire culture of fraud, falsity and philistinism is predicated,
has buckled at last under the strain of our malevolent history,
and is spectacularly shattering and decomposing.

The fact that The Myth and the hubris that buttressed it so
forcefully are disintegrating does not mean they will be abandoned
by the powers and dominions that have used them so long and so
fruitfully.

Absurdity in action is perhaps the most defining single quality
of expiring empires.

Buffoons and Snake Oil men will continue to pitch The Myth,
stinking and decayed, long after its sell-by date as long as it
keeps them on the payroll but where the opinion of the great
world is concerned, the party’s over.

What follows?

There is no reliable template for expiring empires.

The end can be anything from devastating physical destruction, to
ungovernable social chaos and barbarism, to just collapsing quietly
into poor and feeble senescence.

Kipling said it best of an expiring British Empire:

Far called, our navies melt away,
On dune and headland sinks the fire.
Lo! all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.

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