[zeugma]

Good write-up Robert.

I think one thing you're missing though, is that the Powers That Be have managed, through careful indoctrination and propaganda efforts, to just about evenly split this country right in half. It's not the old north/south divide, and is not really even a rural/city split, though that is closer to the mark than most. Rather, it is a split of ideologies and worldviews. Try talking to a diehard leftist about just about anything, and you'll see that they really do not live in the same reality that you do.

To them, their world and perceptions make complete sense, just like yours do to you. Even something as basic as language has been twisted to fit the leftist agenda. We see a little bleed-over of this with made up concepts like "microagression", and "white privilege", but most of us really don't see the whole of it, unless we're unfortunate enough to be an unwilling prisoner in a leftist stronghold. Because they use and attach different meanings to common words, they will draw entirely different, and to us, non-sensical conclusions given the same set of facts, or the same description of different events.

That's one of the things that is going to cause the most problems when we truely leave the 'awkward stage', because both 'sides' see this from such grossly different perspectives. I've seen many conservatives write about the "us having all the guns" because the leftists are such ardent gun-control activists. Well, that's not really the case at all. As in so many things, what they really mean when they say they want to get guns off the street, is not that they want to be disarmed. What they really mean is they want to take guns away from the wrong people (in their mind) - mostly that's us, and minorities, because of the racism their worldview is so thoroughly steeped in.

Take a look at some "anarchist" sites, and you'll see them talking about being armed up to the teeth, and the wilder bunches are really into blowing things up. This has been true for a long time. (Weathermen anyone?)

For the establishment, things get really tricky. While the leftists will use the full power of the state to destroy any opposition to their policies, no matter how small, their more militant brethren are really more interested in chaos than anything else.  So, they'll have no problem at all with attacking infrastructure elements, and LE or military types when they can get away with it, they'd take it amiss if folks started popping off EPA, BATFags, or any of the favored stalinists agencies of the left as seen in Unintended Consequences.

Things will get right interesting when everything finally falls into the crapper. The Feral government has done a pretty good job protecting themselves so far, but when things really devolve, the video cameras they've placed everywere to monitor and control things aren't really going to be especially useful for them.

Some of this is spoken to in a vanity I posted a while back: Police and Society in America

We're in for interesting times, and I don't know how it will all shake out in the end.

[Robert Teesdale]

Thank you. I read your Police and Society in America when it was posted here and it is well-written and correct. I agree with your conclusions and would encourage others to read it carefully.

Beyond that I will add that the conclusions you drew bespeak a fundamental appreciation of what is happening; and it permits a certain kind of communication of concept that I'd like to offer here. I'm going to be a little bit vague, and maybe a little bit esoteric, but it's my hope that you and others can perhaps read a little bit between the lines and grasp at some of the things I am saying.

The divergence of weltanschauung and its impact on literalized perceptions behind the grips of opposing spears is indeed significant, but it's not as binary as it may appear. Where ideology takes command of the language, and then constricts the capacity for effective constructs by removing nimbleness in that literalization - you have incapacity, and incapacity is an infection that can be fomented and furthered for deliberate outcomes.

More concretely, when they are limited to Newspeak they are slaves to its limitations, and they cannot think out of the box as the ability to frame language has been so restricted that creativity is dead.

Creativity is the lifeblood of insurrection, and it is the heart of successful henka. Similarly, the limited imagination of our inner city shadow governments, hammered into stagnant and rotted dialectics by the Great Society, is the single biggest collar that the State has ever clicked shut in American history.

I've got a motorcycle waiting for me, so I'll close here with a couple of thoughts:

We are caught in the gears of many different subsystems, and the grinding and shuddering of the greater rhythm has become apparent in its derangement. And as the gears mesh and turn, and as the confusing teeth of the machinery whine and spin, there comes moments where there is a sudden light through those teeth, like the parting of leaves in a forest sky that allows the sunlight through.

Sometimes that opening is where Truth can penetrate, through personal confusion. Sometimes it is the moment where, half a breath released, the sear feels pressure and breaks and the flight of intent is manifested at the far end of vision. Sometimes it is simply a pause in the chaos of a fluidic maelstrom, and there's a moment of recognition across the battlefield and two individuals stride foreward for honorable combat amidst the crashing melee.

We're at a moment like that now in America, where the sides and the men and the moments can all see each other.

I'm not going to make predictions; I'm going riding.

Shiny side up my friend.