Posted on 03/31/2022 5:02:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Crises demand totalizing responses: we must sacrifice as individuals and forget the idea of normal and embrace a “new normal.”
We live in age of forever crises. I may not be as old as other Americans, but from my early memories and maturation, coinciding with the post-9/11 world, I have noticed that we live in an age of forever crises. These forever crises have certainly become more acute and part of public consciousness since COVID, but it goes back long before COVID.
Some crises are not crises, though they may be related to critical issues we must contend with -- but let us not confuse an important issue to deal with as a “crisis.” The War on Terror is a critical issue. I do not consider it a “crisis.” I recall this “crisis” being blown out of proportion when I was an elementary student in the midst of the anthrax scare, Saddam Hussein’s WMDs that were supposedly going to be launched on New York City, and the drumbeat of perpetual war and never-ending military intervention against people who hardly have the ability to invade the United States. Most Americans have now seen through this façade pushed for 20 years.
But the War on Terror was billed as a crisis. The success of the U.S. military, despite the eventual failure of our political and punditry class, caused this crisis to slip to the back of our minds. It became more a nuisance, two decades later, to still be stuck in war despite constant military success. Some, however, think it’s a great idea to be stuck in forever wars.
As the crisis that was the War on Terror slid away, a new crisis emerged -- one with far more dangerous staying power: global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The updated version of the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.
Most are mentally weak. Have problems thinking for themselves. You overload those types with hair-on-fire after hair-on-fire “crisis” story and they usually just throw up their hands and want some savior to swoop in and save them. Of course the phony crisis makers just happen to be there to fill that role.
I say we pull back, guard our northern border against invasion from Canada, guard our southern border against invasion from Mexico, and maintain a navy to guard shipping lanes (and include subs with global strike capability, just in case). Also push for energy independence and general autarky.
No need for any sort of forever war.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
H.L. Mencken
autarky - Is that Australian turkey? Whats wrong with US?
Stop making sense.
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Are you suggesting that we take our own side? Heresy! /s
When everything is an emergency nothing is an emergency.
I agree, with certain exceptions. America needs more oil. Push for ‘regime change’ in Western PRC (Politically Repressive Canada). Annex SK, AB and BC, ship the lefties in said Provinces to the remnant of PRC, THEN institute your plan. To eliminate at least part of the problem, ‘liberate’ coastal CA, to be its own socialist country.
Just my $0.02.
People have to learn to calm down and not be baited into the hair-on-fire thing. This video is very instructive:
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And oh, how eagerly they did so when "COVID" hit. I could never have imagined how craven, how servile, how easily manipulated and controlled, most people really are. Also never appreciated just how stupid and intellectually lazy most people are.
Consider how over the past several decades we've been told at various times (sometimes with repeats/comebacks):
When do we get to relax and enjoy life?
Some of these were/are big, some not so big. The common theme is there is some issue that must be addressed right now! Don't think, don't reason, we have to do something! Oh, and by the way, right here we have a plan to do something that will alleviate or mitigate the current "crisis." Why yes, our plan does require you give up some freedoms and liberties - personal, economic, etc. But it is for the greater good. Think of the children.
What really concerns me is just how successful the wanna-be fascist rulers have been with the whole over-blown covid/vaccine thing. They managed to roll back liberties and freedoms while taking unprecedented "temporary" controls & powers for themselves. That's the thing with narcissistic, egotistical fascists - you give them a little taste of power, and they don't want to give it up. They want more.
I guarantee you, as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, that right now there are people working on how to repackage "climate change" using some of the lessons learned from their wildly successful covid/vaccine experiences over the last two years. The fundamental problem with global warming, then climate change, is that the timelines are too long. It is hard to get people too excited about what may or may-not happen (and nothing in climate "science" is certain except that nothing is certain) a hundred years from now. Covid was great - "Hey, it'll infect and kill you, right now!" was a pretty easy sell. "Hey, we might lose a fair portion of Florida to sea level changes about the time your great-grandkids retire." That doesn't generate much of a sense of urgency. People are more concerned (especially today) merely with keeping a roof overhead and food on the table. Funny how quickly the leftists have chopped down our expectations. Our hopes and dreams used to be bigger than this.
Covid and the vaccines have been a boon for the fascists. They've advanced their agenda further and faster than at any other time in history with the possible exception of 1930s Germany. But pandemics have a beginning, middle, and end. After two years, we are at the end of the covid scam-demic. The virus itself is well on it's way to mutating into mere endemic status. People are "covid-fatigued" - they don't want to hear any more bad news about cases, hospitalizations, deaths, restrictions, masks, vaccines, social distancing, or general doom and gloom. It is springtime, people want to be happy, optimistic. The fascists know they can't push covid too much more, so we're being distracted with Russia/Ukraine for the moment. But climate change... Climate change is the real prize. The timelines are long - they can claim "necessary" powers for decades to "combat" climate change. Along the way they may try to repackage some other bread-and-butter issues as "health criss" - we've already heard rumblings about gun violence, racism, and a couple of other leftist favorites being couched in terms of a "health crisis." These people will not stop unless and until we make them stop.
I think there is no such thing as practical politics and that may be why they must invent reasons to be significant.
Mencken proves that even a blind sow finds an acorn from time-to-time and nobody can be right all the time on every subject.
Some things never do change. The play is the same only the actors change with each making his own mistakes and discoveries as if they are something never seen or thought before.
You make some good points that ring true with me but crisis, war, fear, envy, greed, power and such other vices seem to be in the nature of things. I can’t recall a worse time than this though for general unhappiness and a unrelenting grab for more and more of the pie of power and money by fewer and fewer at the expense off the many.
The 50s and 60s were bucolic by comparison to today. “When do we get to relax and enjoy life?”
You are right, they will never stop unless they are forced to stop. How and when?
I have been listening to a multi-part and in-depth set of podcasts about the American Revolution by Michael Troy.
Blog
https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/
One link to the podcasts
https://pod.amrevpodcast.com/
I have been listening to understand how the Revolution was raised, fought and to succeed. Time and distance were one advantage to the colonists but maybe also the reason things got so out of hand. Even the most belligerent leaders of the Revolution at first wanted to remain British. Without time and distance we might still have been a colony had the King relented to simple appeals for recognition and even treatment. Sound familiar? Like not joining NATO?
Much of the success of the Revolution was to simply ignore “authority” but in a collective way. There was strength in numbers and widely shared resolve that we don’t have. Many colonial governors existed in name only and abandoned their posts. Hateful judges and public “officials” were rooted out of their positions by public demonstration and also abandoned their posts in fear of tar and feathers or worse. Revolutionaries decided which laws they would respect and uphold.
I applaud the oil company officers who have declined the “offer” to appear and “testify”, more like be grilled, by members of the Spanish Inquisition or clown show that passes for congress.
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