Posted on 05/20/2024 6:32:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“The crisis of meaning only becomes a problem when society becomes resigned to it, accepts a condition of meaninglessness, and seeks to dispossess humanity from the insights and truths it learned through the ages.” — Frank Furedi.
Really, you must agree: just about anything can happen now, and probably will, and possibly all at the same time — war, sickness, a disordered economy, chaos in money and finance, savages pouring across the open borders, assassination, mayhem in the streets, systems failure, mental illness everywhere you look. You have a sinister, blob-infested government acting like a desperate, cornered animal, fronted by a venal phantasm trailing a personal history of crime. What could go wrong? All of it.
The doings in Judge Merchan’s Manhattan present the rectified essence of America’s authority problem. You will stipulate that judges are authorities in a pretty pure sense of the word. Their role is to determine what is right and what is wrong, or, at least guide the proceedings that would result in such a fair determination. And, of course, the officers of this court, the District Attorney and his prosecutors, are also entrusted with bringing comprehensible cases that follow the facts fairly, and the laws pertaining to those facts.
This maliciously misguided prosecution has only accomplished one thing so far: to demonstrate to the American public that the authority of our law has been contorted to become a sick joke. That is a ruinous lesson for the country. The free-for-all of our national life has required reliable adjudication of all the quarrels and inequities that arose out of it. For a long time, the rule of law was America’s great draw. If that goes out the window, all you’re left with is the free-for-all which pretty soon devolves into Thomas Hobbes’s nightmare existence in the state of nature where life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
The current Trump trial in Manhattan will likely resolve this week, one way or another, though there is no way that the candidate will land in jail, even if he is convicted and sentenced to go there. That will only be another quandary for the foundering rule of law, and a dreadful challenge. Altogether this trial has alerted even the deranged news channels that the nation is still capable of feeling grossly insulted by its own rulers, and insults will be answered.
Tribulation may be the only answer that will avail to correct America’s tragic capture by blobs foreign and domestic. And you must understand that our nation’s bad choices have brought these tribulations upon ourselves. Fugazy finance is finally hitting the wall it has been seeking. Wealth based on pretense eventually runs out of hallucinatory mojo. Zooming gold and silver prices signal that the US dollar is in distress. The eagle is flying upside down.
A system based on credit is one thing, when credit can plausibly be paid back. But that system is gone. Finally, you must learn what truth or consequences really means, and the truth is that our debts are unpayable and everybody knows it. The consequences await. Any way you slice that — bond market blow-up, raging inflation, bank failures, stocks cratering, a “great taking” of collateral (your property) — the effect is the same: a crashing standard of living. That will get everybody’s attention in a way that Pride Month marches won’t. If “Joe Biden” thinks he will put over a central bank digital currency to cover for all this failure, he and the blob he rode in on will be in for a rude surprise.
Fugazy war isn’t working either. When did Ukraine become a problem for Western Civ? When Victoria Nuland & Company in the US State Department decided to make it a problem in 2014. Before that, going back into the mists of history, Ukraine was not a problem. It was a rather poor frontier province of Russia, and for a while was badly mistreated by Stalin, but it was not a problem outside of Ukraine and, frankly, it was none of our business. And in a matter of months, as Russia rolls up on the Zelensky regime, it will cease to be a problem for anyone.
The notion that the USA and NATO can reverse this now is insane. The nations of Western Civ won’t draft troops to battle on the ground there. There’s no will to fight in Ukraine among the young people of Europe and America. And we have no more guns or ammo to give. The war will end in humiliation for all concerned in the West, especially the “Joe Biden” regime, which has been recklessly flirting with nuclear aggression — as if this would accomplish anything but turning Western Civ into an ashtray.
Fugazy pandemic sponsored by a Globalist pharmaceutical cabal has shot its wad. It has already accomplished a great deal in the way of bringing death and injury to millions....
Those who do not know anything of history will gladly accept fugazy land.
BTTT
Kunstler’s first paragraph nails it.
“But that could never happen here “. How many times have I heard that when we see Lebanon, the Balkans, Etc.
Powerful article.
It can, and it will.
Yes. But his last paragraph is, in my judgment at least, far too optimistic. I hope he's right, but I fear he's not.
Kunstler has perfect pitch and has hit all the high notes.
>> Kunstler’s first paragraph nails it.
... and he continues to nail it down in PP 2, 3, 4...
and the final nail:
What has the blob (or blobs foreign and domestic) got left after those biggies. They can gin-up their Antifa mobs again. This time, though, they might be met by a million Kyle Rittenhouses. They can stuff every ballot box in land, and surely will try with all their might and all their wiles. But I wouldn’t want to be a blobist the week after a fugazy election. They can signal their beloved “newcomers” to blow up bridges and power stations and shoot up a stadium or a mall here and there, but it won’t save their blobish necks. A lot of bad things are likely to happen over the year ahead, but it looks like America will finally refuse to become Fugazy Land.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE
"What has the blob (or blobs foreign and domestic) got left after those biggies. They can gin-up their Antifa mobs again. This time, though, they might be met by a million Kyle Rittenhouses. They can stuff every ballot box in land, and surely will try with all their might and all their wiles. But I wouldn’t want to be a blobist the week after a fugazy election. They can signal their beloved “newcomers” to blow up bridges and power stations and shoot up a stadium or a mall here and there, but it won’t save their blobish necks. A lot of bad things are likely to happen over the year ahead"
The bolded part is where I share a suspicion. If it looks like the election doesn't go "their way", or lawfare, or "locking in" the status quo, the blob will try to destabilize the country.
Is that term somehow related to ‘wheredafukowi’ ... ?
For me, this scenario is the only meaningful basis for supporting Trump -- i.e., that the Leftist/status quo "blob" would not accept his being elected again and would proceed to destabilize the country for real.
My own fear is that, upon being elected again, Trump wouldn't proceed to do the hard things that are necessary to save what's left of this country (e.g., actually rounding up 40-50 million illegal immigrants and deporting them) but would, instead, get co-opted by said "blob," and revert back to his first term stance, which was a lot of sound and fury signifying very little, when all was said and done.
Meanwhile, were that to transpire, and what's left of this post-iceberg country sank further beneath the waves, all we'd hear from dimwitted, deluded Boomercons on sites like this one would be nonsense to the effect of "Trump knows what he's doing" and "trust the plan," etc., etc.
Insofar as, at this point, I see that scenario as being far more likely than not, I'm not optimistic. Put simply, I would welcome the aforementioned "destabilization." It -- or, rather, the (potentially violent but ultimately successful?) counter-response to it -- is the only thing, to my mind, that could possibly reverse this country's slide into full-blown NWO tyranny.
Our "constitutional system" has clearly failed at this point. With our very liberty being at stake, we need a different path forward.
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We’re the Fugazy!
Thanks for the ping; post. Article BUMP.
I misremembered...
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