Given our nature as human beings, these wars will always be with us. We must fight them over and over again. Paul Johnson, in his Modern Times had this to say:
Of the trio of great German imaginative scholars who offer explanations of human behavior in the nineteenth century, and whose corpus of thought the post-1918 world inherited, only two so far have been mentioned.Marx described a world in which the central dynamic was economic interest. To Freud, the principal thrust was sexual. Both assumed that religion, the old impulse that moved men and masses, was a fantasy and always had been.
Friedrich Nietzsche, the third of the trio, was also an atheist. But he saw God not as an invention, but as a casualty, and His demise as in some important sense an historical event which would have dramatic consequences. He wrote in 1886: "The greatest event in recent times - that 'God is Dead,' that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable - is beginning to cast its first shadows upon Europe." Among the advanced races, the decline and ultimately the collapse of the religious impulse would leave a huge vacuum.
Nietzsche rightly perceived that the most likely candidate would be what he called the 'Will to Power,' which offered a far more comprehensive and in the end more plausible explanation of human behavior than Marx or Freud. In place of religious belief, there would be secular ideology. Those who had once filled the ranks of the totalitarian clergy would become totalitarian politicians. And above all the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by any religious sanctions whatsoever, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind."
Let's say that again: And above all the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by any religious sanctions whatsoever, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind."
That's who we're dealing with now. The Constitution and the rule of law are just so much toilet paper to those who would rule us now. Our values are punchlines to sneering liberal party jokes.
This is the endgame of Gramsci’s and Alinsky's heirs and disciples. These are the murderous great-great-great-great-grandchildren of the French Revolution, cold-eyed with contempt for you and yours; spiral-eyed crazy with hate for what you believe in and possessed of an utterly unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind. Just as Hitler was completely candid in "Mein Kampf" about what he intended to do with Germany, the Jews and the world, so the Left has been completely up front about where they intend to take America, how they've planned to do it and what they're going to do once they achieve absolute power. So, when it comes to the Constitution and rule of law, my pretties, they’ll not only sweep the pieces off the board, they’ll upend the table and put a bullet in you while they’re at it. As far as the Left is concerned, rules are for losers and history, godawful bloody history is my witness.
The reality is that we’ll never see another truly free, open and honest election in this country until after the next American Civil War and the death of millions. And the America we'll have after that won't be the America we started with - for good or for ill. It was always and ever up to us.
Remember that the people who've now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They will happily reduce Western civilization to stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they believe that they will be the ones sitting on top of the rubble heap.
Wake up, people. You’re not going to talk or vote your way out of the tyranny that’s coming. And that’s precisely the point of tyranny, isn’t it? None of us have a Get Out of History Free card, either. None.
Your circumstances can and will change overnight.
That's one of the great lessons that so many of us have failed to learn from the history of the twentieth century. Fat, happy, stupid and "it can't happen here," is how most of us are except for the ones who are actually cheering for it to happen here. And then there those of us who see exactly what's going on and are prepared for the eventual outcomes. We're preparing for war.
Change is coming, oh yes indeed - but it's not what any of that Marxist meat puppet's worshipers bargained for. Rand had it right all these many years ago when she said that there is no personal neutrality today. Time to get off the fence. Time to stand up and be heard. Time to start getting together with like-minded people. Time to organize your list of Things To Do, Places To Go and People To Meet. Because when your favorite websites suddenly go dark, when your cell phones and other comm nets no longer work, when the roadblocks go up, when you hear the knock on the door - then it’ll be too damned late.
It will be too late unless you're willing, like Atlas, to shrug - and then pick up a gun before they come for you. Unless you're willing to take action, you aren't going to get your country back, much less preserve your own freedom and dignity.
So don't just sit there with a pile of ammo and a gun in your closet. Participate in the nearest Appleseed Project shoot and join a community of like minded people turning ammunition into skill. Join up with Glenn Beck's 912Project - a latter-day network of the original Committees of Correspondence - to meet more like-minded folks. Connect with people in your own neighborhood to build your own 'Alarm and Muster' network.
It may be the last chance we're going to get.
Ayn Rand once said, "The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom." Stand with me. Stand with us. And if you think that freedom is passé or over-rated, just wait until you see what your new masters replace it with.
We are what they fear most - informed, armed and unafraid citizens.
Finally, on the dawn of that "dark modern day" of which Titus Livy spoke over 2000 years ago, when it does all go bad - as it now seems that it will - resolve at the very least to sell your life dearly. Do your best to kill every one who comes for you, your family or your means of self-defense. Make them pay, for if that's what they're coming to do, they are enemies of human freedom and they are unfit to live in a free society. In fact, they are just plain unfit to live. If you surrender to this evil, not only is your cause lost, but you will also strengthen those who would perpetrate their evil on others. And that's the greatest guilt of all...
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Amen, Brother!
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I hope you don’t mind us copying that and using that
Immediately after the election of 2008, many of my conservative friends were chanting something along the lines of, ‘We need to start focusing on 2012. We need to look toward Sarah [or fill in the candidate of your choice].’
I simply had to turn around and walk away, not wanting to trample on the pipe dreams of well-meaning people.
Working within the system is no longer possible. The system – at least as it was envisioned and painstakingly formulated by our Founders – no longer exists. Thanks to the power of the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, what passes for public and higher ‘education’, the fact that most parents have abandoned the molding of their children’s minds to the aforementioned three cancers, and a rampant ignorance and apathy among a populace of bread-and-circus aficionados, the system has been hi-jacked and transformed into a behemoth that, upon sight, would have caused our Founders to draw their swords and ready their muskets.
We prefer not to dirty our hands. Might ruin our forty-dollar manicure.
Reverence for our Founders’ vision, and the magnificent blueprint for governance that they formulated in our behalf, has been tossed aside for the better part of the twentieth century: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson, especially, ignored its cautions with impunity, and placed their own political agendas above its brilliant dictates, resulting in a gradual erosion of our Founders’ vision. But who would have thought that all of that erosion would pale in comparison with the six months that ushered in America 2009?
Most Americans have forgotten their heroic origins and have declared that divine guidance is dispensable. The have allowed a cadre of elitist scoundrels in Washington to muddy, beyond recognition – and perhaps beyond redemption -- the phrase 'of, by, and for the people', and they have vicariously written its epitaph by virtue of their eyes-diverted apathy and indifference to her brutal murder.
The majority of our countrymen no longer value:
More than two thousand years ago, Plato observed that ‘The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.’
Mankind has been struggling for more than two millenia to comprehend and retain Plato's admonition. If Americans ever successfully heeded his warnings, we have since decided that such wisdom is sadly passé. In carelessly relaxing our grip on those citizen-characteristics essential to preserving and defending a free society, the last best hope of man on earth has sentenced its children to a thousand years of darkness. [italics included in warnings by Ronald Reagan regarding a relaxing of vigilance]
The most difficult aspect to swallow of this entire travesty is the fact that the average American now has nowhere to turn. Our representatives no longer represent us. Our laws/justice system are now completely situational (depending upon who benefits from their application, or lack thereof). So where does the American citizen now turn for a hearing of grievances, or a hope of receiving justice when a crime of any sort has been committed against him? The answer? Unless he has connections, he no longer has an avenue of redress. The large majority if the crimes that will be committed against him in the future will be perpetrated by his own government -- and those crimes will continue to grow in frequency and intensity.
Over the past five months I have walked away from several many-year friendships. I can no longer fellowship with, or enjoy the company of, people who, primarily through their apathy and unconcern, are contributing to the downfall of our beloved republic and placing my children’s and grandchildren’s lives and liberties in jeopardy.
I have also abandoned a decades-long belief in political, within-the-system activism in favor of outside-of-the-system activism, in addition to preparing my family for the dark days ahead and simply seeking, when circumstances allow, to attempt to educate people regarding the genuine definition and source of our liberties. Asking them to search their hearts and decide whether those liberties are being stolen from them, and then urging them to discern whether and how they can reclaim them.
My husband and I attended a simulcast presentation of Glenn Beck’s Common Sense Comedy Tour about ten days ago. The theater was sold-out, and yet the audience responses to Beck’s call-to-arms was lukewarm, at best. I hope it was otherwise in other locations.
Beck is indeed a burgeoning modern-day Thomas Paine. Not so sure he’ll retain Paine’s passion, receive Paine’s notoriety, or achieve Paine’s timeless presence, but I have high hopes for him. He hasn’t given up on (what used to be) America. Neither can the rest of us. We simply have to have the presence of mind to alter our strategies. Don’t envision changing the complexion of our ‘leadership’ four, eight or twelve years down the road as a ‘solution’. Look beyond the ballot box to the winning of hearts and minds in spite of our ‘leadership’. In America 2009, our ‘leadership’ is our greatest enemy.
God bless you, Noumenon. You are a man of courage and conviction, and a modern day patriot of whom our Founders would be proud.
~ joanie
Bravo and EXACTLY! You wouldn’t, perchance, be interested in being one of our new leaders....would you?
That is exactly the kind of leadership we need right now. The kind that’s unafraid to tell it like it is.
If you are right then should the disabled, who cannot take up rifle and fight, simply quit in despair?
As for me I am far more fitted to the war of ideas. We have a place in this fight, too. It is not pre-ordained that we cannot win a war without a shot fired, such as Reagan did against Communism.
I fully support *preparing* for war. If it comes I'll do what little I can to fight it. In the meantime I'll fight the battle with verbal broadsides instead of bullets. And I will not despair (much).
“Connect with people in your own neighborhood to build your own ‘Alarm and Muster’ network.”
It’s already happening. www.alarmandmuster.com
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Awesome post, Noumenon. It’s the exact message that needs to go viral across the net, this very minute.
If you don’t mind, I’ll do my part to help with that right now.
Good post.
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Absolutely OUTSTANDING essay/post Noumenon!!!
I am not a cheap date. Front toward enemy. Molon labe.
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