There are several reasons: the fact that we don't know what happened yet, the utter predictability of the race-hustlers descending on Ferguson, the infantile behavior of the looters. There just aren't any large inferences to be drawn, the attempts by lots of FHer pundits notwithstanding.
I'm so tired of the Freedom-Hater modus operandi whereby they fill the nation's radar screen with what, given the truly urgent matters facing us, really amount to nothing more than distractions, although we then do indeed have to stop and address them because of the cultural rot they entail. Think the attempt to redefine marriage to include homosexual unions, or the attempt to scare the public about fracking, or the preoccupation with marijuana, or, more to the point, the attempt to entrench the meme that there is still a red-hot racial tension just below the surface of American society because white America still has to face its systemic bigotry.
I'm interested in finding out what indeed did go down between Brown and the officer who shot him but I think that for now the more important aspect of this is the looting and rioting. Let's face it: smashing a store window and making off with some electronic gear, clothing or booze and calling it a statement of sociological rage absolves those engaged in that behavior of actually having to find something useful to do with their lives. You know, like start earning some money, courting a young lady and eventually marrying her when one's life stability is sufficiently in place, getting educated in something worthwhile, maintaining one's home.
And our rivals and enemies have definitely taken note of how easily distracted we are, and have taken advantage of the rhetoric coming from our grievance mongers. Russia, China and Iran have all piled on, chiding us for having supposedly glaring unfinished business in the realm of human rights. This gives them the perfect opportunity to tell us ever so sanctimoniously to zip it regarding their human rights records.
Ultimately the now-nightly mayhem in Ferguson amounts to nothing more than an instance of a civilization past its peak engaging in the kinds of infantile indulgences that have always been on display at such a stage of decline.
I'm far more interested in how our enemies are accelerating their assault on the few remaining forces defending freedom and Western greatness. What happened to Rick Perry and James Foley is ultimately of more consequence than whether Darren Wilson had cause to shoot Michael Brown.
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ReplyDeleteI wish I could go back and search for all the times you blew off world opinion during the Bush years on your former blog. Now it seems to matter to you. And damn you for declaring civilization past its peak. Speak for yourself and your own grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteIt's clearly past its peak. The evidence is everywhere, from the marginalization of Christianity to the death of music to the sexualization of everything to the stagnant economy to the Ferguson situation to the gullibility of the cattle-masses on matters ranging from the "gobal climate" to buying into the insane notion that health care is a right, and, yes, to the understanding among world leaders both friend and foe that post-America is no longer interested in shaping world events.
ReplyDeleteYou see, either heeding or blowing off world opinion per se is not the point. For one thing, the world is a very different place than it was in 2004. But specifically, the point in this post is that we have an array of rivals and enemies gunning for any opportunity to chide us on the world stage for our supposed shortcomings, knowing that this is the ideal moment for doing so.
If the world is a very different place from 2004 it will likely be a very different place in 2024. I will hope fore, if not wager, better.
ReplyDeleteBack to your dismissal of my assertion that Western civilization is past its peak, consider that you can major in English at a number of major colleges and universities without being required to take courses in Shakespeare, Chaucer, or Romantic literature. In some, however, the student is expected to get some credits in areas like queer studies.
ReplyDeleteOr consider the evidence that presents itself in the course of merely going through one's day. People out in public wearing tee shirts - or tank tops - with crude slogans that probably would have gotten them arrested for indecency 60 years ago. The few Americans who still go to church don't bother to dress up any more. You also hear the jangling guitars of "praise bands" instead of grand old big, throaty organs playing classic hymns. Think about the realm of cuisine; there's really no true fine dining anymore. It's all about trends, not to mention political correctness. The "hot" restaurants all brag about sustainability and minimal impact on the environment, as if that has anything to do with enjoying a memorable meal.
How many people do you know who have straightforward family arrangements that don't involve a step-this or a step-that?
We take seriously such phenomena as "transgenderedness." To the extent that we try to make our damn State Department more accommodating to such insanity.
The public is completely decentralized in terms of popular culture phenomena such as sports and movies. There are no nationally lionized figures in those fields anymore.
No, we're past the peak. You and I enjoyed it during our childhoods, but the decline is palpable and not likely to be reversed.
Dolores’s theory proposes that a series of souls are traveling from other planets and dimensions to assist Earth at this time. Many of these souls, which are of a higher vibration than the resident Earth souls, are incarnating on the planet for the first time. She affirms that the souls that have spent many lifetimes reincarnating on Earth are stuck in a karmic cycle, repeating the same patterns of mistakes and lessons which is ultimately leading to the destruction of the planet. Thus, there has been a calling for purer souls to come to Earth to cleanse and raise the planet’s vibration.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/02/19/we-are-living-in-the-most-important-time-in-the-history-of-the-universe-dolores-cannon-discusses-our-current-paradigm/
You offer this because a.) you believe it, and seriously see it as a refutation of the assertion that our civilization is past its peak? b.) you're considering it as a possibly plausible sign of hope? b.) you're interested in my reaction? d.) you find it laughably ridiculous?
ReplyDeleteKeep hope alive, lol.
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