Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Are We Being Set Up Yet Again?

Despite long experience as a witness to the stupidity of the so-called "left", my normalcy bias remains strong in that I still find it difficult to believe that they are quite as stupid as they now appear, judging by what is reported in media, or that they are not themselves being centrally controlled by forces of which they are unaware.

If we are to believe even one percent of that which we are fed via broadcast and network media, that Democrats (for example) keep doubling down on their bankrupt stupidities at every nexus, then truly the world is going mad in the most dangerously literal sense. Take the bloviations of Fauxcahontas, Lizzy Bord... erm... Warren, going on about 50% tax rates if Democrats retake the House. How can they not see that this is going to avail them nothing good in terms of retaining what power they still hold, much less gaining more? It seems somehow too convenient.

While I know that a great many people tend to be this utterly stupid on the average, I cannot quite accept what we are seeing as "organic". It all seems too perfect - too conveniently that which we want to see from the "left". Do liberty-oriented people not wish to see the "left" some flying apart at the seams unto its complete destruction as a political force? That we appear to be seeing this happen with nary so much as a hint of question from voices on the so-called "left" - it has become for me impossible to not remain suspicious that this is all political theater with a very definite purpose, rather than the usual haphazard variety of black comedy to which we have been daily treated for more decades than one cares to contemplate.

While it appears that Trump is doing good things, could it all be a smokescreen for sinister things to come? I do not want to go off the edge of morbid paranoia, but I find myself unable, or at least unwilling, to dismiss the possibility that we are all being lead into a tight and ultimately perilous corner.

More specifically, what if this is all truly a show such that Theye (those in truer, deeper political power) have decided to sacrifice the "left" for the sake of delivering the fatal blow to human freedom from the "right"?

Imagine it is a setup where lefties go so far off the rails that even many on the "left" do double-takes and jump ship for the insanity issuing from that quarter. There's the thesis in the Hegelian dialectic I hope is not at work.

The antithesis is Trump - the strongman who sweeps in to save the day, and does so... at least at first. Taxes down; economy recovering; dismantling of some of our enemies. Yay!, right? Maybe. 

And, of course, the synthesis would be a new tyranny having the strong support of the people; a tyranny for which the people have come to clamor for the false promises it makes of safety, security, prosperity, and most ironically of all, freedom. What if all this is designed to get the gross majority so deeply on board with the Trump juggernaut for the purposes of ringing in a new era of tyranny, colored and flavored differently?

This does not have to be the child of Trump, either. In fact, I would deeply doubt that even a man such as Trump could pull it off without Theire blessing. But it is as readily likely, more so actually, that Trump is just a useful pawn to whom Theye are paying out the rope, letting him run as he might; that is, until he has corralled the people into the precise position in which Theye wish them maneuvered, intentionally or otherwise. At that point, perhaps Theye could squash Trump like a bug, or pull out (please forgive the unintentional pun) the trump cards by which the president would be reeled back to heel such that he would be denied any escape from having to make the choice of toeing Theire lines or facing utter filial destruction.

I suppose it is all a long-shot and not very likely, but can we afford not to at least keep the possibility in the backs of our minds awhile, remaining vigilant for signs?

What if, rather than 1984-style tyranny, which is the way of the "left" and which is now utterly discredited as a sound and reliable mechanism for maintaining control over vast populations, Theye have decided to switch BACK (American-style) to "Brave New World", where just enough candy coating is slathered over the dark, leaden, and stench-rotten core such that people clamor for more, rather than resist?

Brave New World was always the more frightening vision for me ever since I was required to read it in high school. 1984's vision left the enemy openly visible, identifiable, and hated, whereas that of Huxley's story concealed the tyrant in a vaseline halo as the beneficent provider of all things essential, from soma to birth control and all manner of idiocies specifically designed to render people dumber than posts, and keep them that way through their own wills. No guns necessary, nor open and obvious threats, but only those of the most subtle and seemingly innocuous sorts.

Huxley was smarter than Orwell in that his tyranny employed stick and carrot methods, mostly carrot, whereas Orwell's tyrant used naught but the stick, and with great profligacy. Why beat a man into submission if you can entice him of his own free will? It is less costly, less risky-laden, and self-reinforcing.

So what if this is the case in the here and now? In comes the Messiah and the people cleave to him as to a god. Just look at how the cult of personality sucked in the hapless German people in the 1930s - so much so that Hitler and his bully boys no longer felt the restraint of Law that would otherwise have limited their prerogatives. The result was tens of millions murdered and nearly an entire continent destroyed both physically, economically, and I daresay culturally as well, even if that last bit was not made immediately obvious.

Clearly, this is a possibility. But how likely is it? I cannot say with any certainty at all, but I can say that it has happened in the past, that it happened not that long ago, and that humanity has a frighteningly short and faulty memory where such issues are concerned. I see this possibility as very strong.

So you tell me how likely it might be that this sort of thing is afoot yet again. If not very, then upon what basis do you come to such a conclusion? Before deciding, bear in mind that this is big-league politics of which we speak and that the wad of humanity has been set up time and again by clever men bent upon achieving some political objective. Is there any positive basis for rejecting this possibility out of hand?

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.

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