The first 8 months of this year has well and truly shown that the technocratic elite are well and truly out of gas:
The managerial class increasingly appears as a sort of funhouse mirror inversion of the doomed russian nobility of the late tsarist era; they no longer know how to run a country and only seem to parasitize on the body politic while giving almost nothing of value in return. In tsarist Russia, the nobility proved increasingly incapable of winning Russia’s wars or running its ministries, making their legitimating narratives proclaiming them to possess some natural-born right and capacity for rulership increasingly impossible to believe in. In modern America, it is the meritocrats who now openly lack any merit or ability to rule, quickly undermining the ability of the average person to believe in the very foundational claims behind the managerial order. And by what right does the collective of non-divine kings rule? To borrow from Schmitt: by the same right as the collective of stupid and ignorant technocrats. In other words, by virtue of simply not having been replaced yet. Nothing more.
I find it very likely that most future historians will put the date of the real beginning of the collapse of the current political and geopolitical order right here, right now, at the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This is an exceptionally insightful post, and I strongly encourage you to go read the whole thing. Found via the Arch Druid, who has some similar thinking that is also worth your time.
Concur with all. It is pretty sad when there is 'realistic' talk of impeaching the president and wholesale firings at State/DOD/Pentagon.
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ReplyDeleteThe only thing that scares me about removing Bozo Biden is what is waiting in the wings. From Heels up Harris, to Pelosi, Patrick Leahy, and the list goes even down from there, if you can believe it.
ReplyDeleteNot very confidence building, is it?
"I find it very likely that most future historians will put the date of the real beginning of the collapse of the current political and geopolitical order right here, right now, at the US withdrawal from Afghanistan."
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean that the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11...
...succeeded in their goal?
I mean, if this statement ends up being true, then I can't for the life of me figure out how my conclusion would be in error.
That's a big "if", though. I stopped blogging years ago because of health issues and a re-alignment of priorities, but if I was still blogging, my blog would be absolutely chock full of me saying "stop it!" to all the people who are playing brinksmanship games right now.
It seems like literally everyone, on both sides of the political spectrum, are looking forward to a freaking civil war, like "it's about damn time" or something, and I just don't see it.
There's nothing all that remarkable about right now, as far as geo-political situations, internal politics, etc. It's not good, by any means, but it's not that bad, especially given history. Certainly not bad enough that I'd even begin to start claiming that it's all going to come crashing down anytime soon.
All that I see is everyone scrapping for a fight that they think they want, that they really don't. Nothing going on right now is bad enough to start killing people (and let's face it, dying en masse). Why is everyone so fired up? I don't know.
Why is there a substantial number of the US population that thinks that every doctor on Earth is colluding to get us to take a vaccine that's designed to kill us? Hell if I know. It doesnt make sense. Just from a project management standpoint, such a conspiracy is absolutely impossible, but people still believe with every fiber of their being that the Rothschild Illuminati Lizard People are all paying off every single doctor on the planet to get the more gullible among us to take a poison pill.
Why is the flat Earth movement gaining traction? To me, it's a sign of a complete decay in public trust for anything even remotely resembling authority. If an authority figure says that water will make you wet, well, then, that's obviously a lie. If an authority figure says that the Earth is round, well, fuck them, it's flat. Facts be damned. Reality be damned. I want my rebellion, and I want it NOW, even IF I have to lie to myself and deceive myself to get it!!!!
Like, what in the actual hell is going on, and why is everyone so ready to start pumping bullets into their neighbor over a goddamn political disagreement?
Why do people who willingly go to the hospital for broken bones, cancer, and pink eye, suddenly start accusing those same doctors of being genocidal mass murderers as soon as the doctor suggests that they should get a vaccine against a deadly disease?
What in the actual hell is going on?
Goober:
ReplyDelete"Why is there a substantial number of the US population that thinks that every doctor on Earth is colluding to get us to take a vaccine that's designed to kill us?"
1) The various governments around the world data shows the vaxx is much more hazardous than the WuFlu itself is, plus it doesn't do a single thing a true vaccine is required to accomplish to attain the label "vaccine".
2) "Just from a project management standpoint, such a conspiracy is absolutely impossible..."
Not really, if your only official info is what you hear from the MSM and/or your medical establishment, such as hospital management. Medical personnel are highly regimented in a hierarchical fashion, similar to an army organization. They don't salute, but the thinking is similar.
"... are all paying off every single doctor on the planet..." Nope, see #2, plus all that money is staying inside the drug companies.
One of the early lies from Fauci and company is that they whipped up this vaxx nearly overnight. Bullshit. The patent trail goes back more than 20 years on this covid shit. Fauci tried to patent this vaxx more than a decade ago, but was told it didn't qualify, since it didn't act like a proper vaccine.
Patent history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjNDf32_Ac
As someone else pointed out a while back, the vaxx should be considered an IQ test, because people sure are acting dumb about it. Early days, people could be excused for not knowing how bad the vaxx is to peoples health, but not anymore. The long list of serious "side effects" that have been listed for some time now should be a game stopper, but the longer term ones that are now being seen should be getting people's attention, if they turn out to be as widespread as is feared. There is NO good news about the vaxx. I doesn't do ANYTHING useful for the public, but it sure is being used to increase the .govs power.
"I find it very likely that most future historians will put the date of the real beginning of the collapse of the current political and geopolitical order right here, right now, at the US withdrawal from Afghanistan."
ReplyDeleteThat's a perspective brought about by proximity. With time we might see two other critical points: When our leaders faked evidence of 'weapons of mass destruction' to invade a country with no involvement whatsoever in the 9/11 bombing; and when we did not begin the withdrawal right after Bin Laden was killed. What happened with the actual withdrawal was inevitable, because modern warfare has proven that overwhelming personnel and technology superiority by invaders is no guarantee against determined local peasants who will never stop fighting for their homes. We did not learn that in Vietnam, and we didn't learn from the Soviet Union's failure in Afghanistan.
I love our American republic. I'm far less fond of living in the American empire, especially since I'm paying for our noble expeditions to bring democracy to peasants who don't understand, let alone want, the blessings of democracy.