Posted on 02/11/2023 8:19:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Looking at the American political and cultural scene, let us contemplate what I call the “Quintessential Existential Interrogatories”:
(1) Where are we?
(2) How did we get here?
(3) Where are we going?
Many know a slight variant of these questions from Paul Gauguin’s famous painting of the same name: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (“D'ou Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous”), but these three questions crop up all over the place.
I would add a fourth question that is just as important: (4) Is there an alternative?
1. Where Are We?
We are in the age of the irrational hoax. Unlike the Piltdown Man hoax, which was clothed with an aura of credibility and, therefore, was a mere fraud, the hoaxes of Climate Change, Transgenderism, DEI, CRT, Covid Vax, White Supremacy, etc., are not just false; they are also irrational and absurd, utterly lacking any hint of credibility. Moreover, every one of these hoaxes will lead to the destruction of our middle class.
In “The Coup We Never Knew,” Victor Davis Hanson asks: “Did someone or something seize control of the United States?” He then offers the only answer possible: “We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.”
This coup revealed itself plainly in the stolen 2020 election. Many thought that disaster was an outlier, a “one-off” that MAGA could shake off like a dog shaking off a spring shower, but the replication of that same unsavory fact pattern in the 2022 election dashed that hope. Can there be another fair national election? Some have doubts.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Dennis Prager lists (and expands upon) some of the absurdities characterizing the political reality of our time, which include:
(1) Men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
(2) Defunding police will decrease crime.
(3) Racial segregation is antiracist.
(4) Opposition to racial segregation is racist.
(5) Diversity is strength.
(6) Free speech does not allow for hate speech.
(7) You’re not a human being until you’re born.
(8) Capitalism is evil.
(9) America is systemically racist.
Most notable is that our government approves and propagates all these hoaxes and absurdities. Victor Davis Hanson says we are in a time when our own government is destroying us, and he has detailed ten actions undertaken by the federal government intended to destroy the nation.
Currently, the federal Executive Branch has seized the legislative power for itself, enacting law through administrative regulation and executive order.
The presence in D.C. of the uniparty reaching to grasp all power reveals our process of morphing into China. Little wonder the land is suffused with Chinese spies and Chinese police stations.
Don’t get me going.
Topically, I’ll point to the ‘60s, and what likely caused that, Dr. Spock.
As a matter of literary style I would prefer:
WHAT is the alternative?
And as for the momma grizzly response to indoctrinating our children there is no better response than the Greek:
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Charles Lyell had a specific agenda. This started with him. This is the harvest of seed he planted long ago.
Recommend clicking on the link for VDH's 10 actions.
Ping
well said. i’d just add, ‘the family’ is God’s quintessential institution.
Not looking good for the world either. Unfortunately, we are now part of the global problem. A handful of congressmen and Elon Musk aren’t enough of a calvary to save us. I’m hoping we’ve been shooting down benevolent aliens here to save us from ourselves.
If we wish to be saved, either individually or as a society, we can choose to return to God and His ways.
Anything else leads to damnation.
Politics will not save us. No politician will save us.
Only God can save us.
Repent, America, while you still can!
Buy firearms. If you already have firearms buy ammo.
You will need to be able to protect yourself and family members from other people, the police, and the government.
My reading of human history does not suggest a reassuring response.
Government will be a lot harder to handle.
They’ll come tromping around in lvl3a or 4 armor, and very few practical guns civies have, can get through those.
Other two will be easier to handle, such as non swat police units
We live in economic and infrastructure decay caused by anti-family, anti-male, anti-defense policies and trade imbalances (import regime).
And much of it is concealed by distracting, stupid conspiracy theories.
Amen!
“(1) Where are we?”
Late-Stage Republic...
Here's a good comment from source:
Half the country thinks this is insane. But our Republican leaders in D.C. are roasting marshmallows…This is no time for dignified action. This is a time for marching in the streets (and pulling kids out of school, as the author suggests).
The sane half of the country is finally beginning to wake up to the insidious evil of the Left and is fighting back.
However, we have to be unified, smarter, decent, hit harder and destroy their “engines of evil” - corrupt media and technology, corrupted and perverted educational system and teachers union, a weak-willed military and political leaders, street thugs, con-artists posing as civil rights leaders, corrupted clergy, insane professors, and lockstep marching MARXIST-Fascists in politics.
Take as few prisoners as possible. Germs can regenerate very quickly.
I suspect a lot of it isn’t even put out by our folks.
There’s so much BS and fake information, we don’t even know who we’re fighting or why.
We have no way to discern truth from fiction.
5th gen warfare.
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