Government's COVID Tyranny Heralding a New Dark Age

American Thinker ^ | 19 Jan, 2022 | Chet Richards

[MtnClimber]

COVID has shown us how rigid a technocracy can be, even in a supposedly democratic society.

We were having tea under sparkling Southern California stars, just the two of us. Seated with me, the distinguished lady was the director of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. She had just given a lecture on Dark Age Britain after the withdrawal of the Roman legions in the early 400s. The army had gone south to deal with imperial politics. I ventured the idea that maybe this period was not quite so dark. After all, we know from Scandinavian stave temples that they could build extraordinary structures in perishable wood. And we know about the intricate metal work from this period. Then, too, Saxon Britain did have a sophisticated poetic oral tradition.

She changed my mind. All those things may be true, but Britain lacked one essential: they had no coins. Without money, the economy lapsed back into barter. Long-distance trade, with its information networks, collapsed. People became isolated in their farms and villages. The world beyond became a mystery. Literacy disappeared. For more than a century, until the arrival of Christian missionaries, and with them literacy and coinage, the age was dark.

True, there were some candles in the dark. Tintagel on the Cornish coast was one, giving rise to the legends of King Arthur. And oral histories give us some glimpses into the events of that era of Saxon settlement, but for most people, the land had returned to a pre-civilization state.

It wasn't the fault of the British. It was the consequence of political mismanagement in the larger world of the Roman Empire. The Problem of Succession had troubled the empire from its beginning. They never did establish a constitutional mechanism for picking an emperor.

[MtnClimber]

The control freaks have found their utopia.

[Olog-hai]

“Supposedly democratic”?

(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.

— Communist Manifesto

What will be the course of this revolution? Above all it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat.

— The Principles of Communism

(I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.

— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”

There is no evidence that I have seen that contradicts Wilson’s contention that socialism and democracy are the same thing, as loathsome as Wilson is while making it.

The USA is a republic.

[epluribus_2]

They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.

In modern times particularly in the United States through the Democratic Party, communism / socialism is defined bye the absolute power of the community to determine the destiny of other communities and the party being Supreme over constitutional and representative law.

[unread]

"Mismanagement of the COVID Crises is likely to produce a permanent change in this nation's political environment — a change for the better, I would hope."

Hope... My Dad (God rest his soul) told me, You can wish in one hand and crap in the other, and see which one gets full the fastest..

Someone better "Take the bull by the horns" or we'll all be "Picking sh-t with the chickens." :(

[livius]

Interesting article. I hope he’s right about us coming out from under this tyranny and dealing with the problems that underlay it.

[marktwain]

He makes some good points.

I fear the desperation of the Progressives.