We’re getting close to the
end now. Can you feel it? I do. It’s in the news, on the streets,
and in your face every day. You can’t tune it out anymore, even if you wanted
to.
Where once there was civil debate in the court of public
opinion, we now have censorship, monopoly, screaming, insults, demonization, and, finally, the use of force to silence the opposition. There
is no turning back now. The political extremes are going to war, and you will
be dragged into it even if you consider yourself apolitical.
There are great pivot points in history, and we’ve arrived at
one. The United States, ruptured by a thousand grievance groups, torn by shadowy agencies drunk on
a gross excess of power, robbed blind by oligarchs and their treasonous
henchmen and decimated by frivolous wars of choice, has finally come to a
point where the end begins in earnest. The center isn’t holding… indeed,
finding a center is no longer even conceivable. We are the schizophrenic nation,
bound by no societal norms, constrained by no religion, with no shared sense of
history, myth, language, art, philosophy, music, or culture, rushing toward an
uncertain future fueled by nothing more than easy money, hubris, and sheer
momentum.
There comes a
time when hard choices must be made…when it is no longer possible to remain
aloof or amused, because the barbarians have arrived at the gate. Indeed, they
are here now, and they often look a whole lot like deracinated, conflicted, yet
bellicose fellow Americans, certain of only one thing, and that is that they
possess “rights”, even though they could scarcely form an intelligible sentence
explaining exactly what those rights secure or how they came into being. But
that isn’t necessary, from their point of view, you see. All they need is a
“voice” and membership in an approved victim class to enrich themselves at
someone else’s expense. If you are thinking to yourself right now that this
does not describe you, then guess what? The joke’s on you, and you are going to
be expected to pay the bill…that “someone else” is you.
In reality, though, who can blame the minions, when the elites
have their hand in the till as well? In fact, they are even more hostile to
reasoned discourse than Black
Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, or Antifa. Witness the complete meltdown of the privileged
classes when President Trump mildly suggested that perhaps our “intelligence
community” isn’t to be trusted, which is after all a fairly sober assessment
when one considers the track record of the CIA, FBI, NSA, BATF, and the other assorted Stasi agencies.
Burning cop cars or bum-rushing the odd Trump supporter seems kind of tame in
comparison to the weeping and gnashing of teeth when that hoary old MIC
“intelligence” vampire was dragged screaming into the light. Yet Trump did not
drive a stake into its heart, nor at this point likely can anyone…and that is
exactly the point. We are now Thelma
and Louise writ large. We are on cruise control, happily
speeding towards the cliff, and few seem to notice that our not so distant
future involves bankruptcy, totalitarianism, and/or nuclear annihilation. Even
though most of us couldn’t identify the band, we nonetheless surely live the
lyrics of the Grass Roots: “Live for today, and don’t worry about
tomorrow.”
The “Defense”
Department, “Homeland” Security, big pharma, big oil, big education, civil
rights groups, blacks, Indians, Jews, the Deep State, government workers, labor
unions, Neocons, Populists, fundamentalist Christians, atheists, pro life and
pro death advocates, environmentalists, lawyers, homosexuals, women,
Millenials, Baby Boomers, blue collar/white collar, illegal aliens…the list
goes on and on, but the point is that the conflicting agendas of these
disparate groups have been irreconcilable for some time. The difference today
is that we are de facto at war with each other, and whether it is a war of
words or of actual combat doesn’t matter at the moment. What matters is that we
no longer communicate, and when that happens it is easy to demonize the other
side. Violence is never far behind ignorance.
I am writing this from the bar at the Intercontinental Hotel in Vienna, Austria. I have seen with my own eyes the inundation of
Europe with an influx of hostile aliens bent on the destruction of Old
Christendom, yet I have some hope for the eastern European countries because they
have finally recognized the threat and are working to neutralize it. Foreign
malcontents can never be successfully integrated into a civilized society
because they don’t even intend to try; they intend to conquer their host instead. Yet
even though our own discontents are domestic for the most part, we have a much
harder row to hoe than Old Europe because our own “invaders” are well
entrenched and have been for decades, all the way up to the highest levels of
government. That there are signs Austria is finally waking up is a good thing,
but it serves to illustrate the folly of expecting the hostile cultures within
our own country to get along with each other without rupturing the republic.
Indeed, that republic died long ago, and it has been replaced by a
metastasizing mass of amorphous humanity called the American Empire, and it is
at war with itself and consuming itself from within.
Long ago, we once knew that as American citizens
each of us had a great responsibility. We were expected to work hard, play
fair, do unto others as we would have them do unto us, and serve our country
when called upon to do so. Today, we don’t speak of duty, except in so much as
a slogan to promote war, but we certainly do speak of benefits for ourselves
and our “group” of entitled peeps. We will fail because of our greed and
avarice. The United States of Empire has become quite simply too big, too diverse, and too “exceptional” to survive.