Mar 19 2024

A Diagnosis

     Here’s the diagnosis:

     There’s a lot more than is displayed here. You’ll have to click over to X / Twitter to see it all. And it’s entirely bleak.

     But is it accurate?

     My sense of things is a bit more positive. About half the country has gone insane. The other half – which cannot be cleanly separated from the former half geographically – is baffled by it, and doesn’t have a clear idea what to do about it. The insane half has the support of government, the media, the schools, the entertainment industry, and a fair number of giant corporations, which can make it seem unstoppable.

     The sane half might find it possible to endure the coexistence of the insane half, except for one thing: the insane half is aggressive. It’s like Islam: it demands submission from everyone, without exception. It exploits decent Americans’ dislike of confrontation to gain entry into places where the sane are still a strong majority. Those who strive to resist its incursions are shouted down as “intolerant.” Our Gentle Readers know what follows.

     The situation is unstable, to say the least. The insane are fueled by a conviction of intellectual and moral superiority. Neither of those claims is true. They’re protected from sober evaluation by a Hofferian “fact-proof screen” that keeps contradictory facts from reaching them. What matters above all else is that they provide a justification for the insane’s “convert, subjugate, or destroy them” mindset.

     The clarifying agent would require us to do unto them as they strive to do unto us. We would have to cease passively tolerating them, get in their faces, make them aware of their insanity and unacceptability, and drive them out of our communities, our institutions, and our politics. But there’s that distaste for confrontation in the way. It’s hard to overcome.

     Just an early-morning thought. Make of it what you will. I can’t spend all my time cleaning my guns and loading magazines.

1 comment

  1. The Seven Steps of Liberal Activism:

    1. It’s a free country, X should not be illegal.

    2. The Constitution prohibits X from being made illegal.

    3. If the Constitution protects a right to X, how can it be immoral? Anyone who disagrees is a bigot.

    4. If X is a Constitutional right, how can we deny it to the poor? Taxpayer money must be given to people to get X.

    5. The Constitution requires that taxpayer money be given to people to get X.

    6. People who refuse to participate in X are criminals.

    7. People who publicly disagree with X are criminals.

    (Step 8 has been reached by a few over-achieving cultures, such as nationalist, communist Russia or nationalist, communist China or nationalist, socialist Germany or nationalist, socialist Venezuela. Everyone knows what Step 8 is.)

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