A Rabid Dog
Atlanta, GA
June 15, 2022
Trapped by our political pilots on what appears to be a cultural kamikaze mission, let’s sample their potpourri of disaster as we hurtle helplessly toward the ground.
Up the aisle, a stewardess stumbles toward us amid the incessant turbulence of accelerating societal decay. Her dilapidated cart is laden with assorted samplings of civilizational suicide. Hapless passengers are offered a charcuterie of unfolding catastrophe, each item of which they are forced to accept.
Economic collapse, exorbitant inflation, state-induced shortages, pre-industrial energy, biomedical fascism, synthetic “meat”, sexual deviance, artificial biofuels, implicit censorship, explicit surveillance, climate quackery, ubiquitous pseudoscience, and reckless nuclear brinkmanship are each dumped in everyone’s lap, all coated in a thick sauce of perverse propaganda.
Normal, well-adjusted people instinctively recoil from the disorienting chaos of this spiraling dystopia. They can’t believe the magnitude of the mess or how quickly it was made, and mourn a country that seems irretrievably lost.
With confidence shaken and hope sapped, they buckle-up, reach for the oxygen masks, and scan the cabin for emergency exits. But there appears to be no easy way out. The doors are locked, the pressure rises, and the walls close in.
From the cockpit, the captain assures us everything is either perfectly fine or not his fault. To be fair, the second part is probably true. And he probably thinks the first part is.
This flight is under the command of unseen controllers in unacknowledged towers. The man up front is nothing more than a figurehead adorning the dashboard.
We doubt anyone is really at the wheel. But unlike the gentle descent under previous pilots, there’s nothing subtle about the nosedive being engineered by the current crew.
The ruling Establishment has always held the hoi polloi in thinly-veiled contempt. These days, the veil is gone. Our anointed elites no longer hide their disdain. I’m countless ways, they’ve declared open war on the people they pretend to “serve”.
For the last couple years, they’ve unleashed an unremitting assault. They’ve been diluting our money, depriving us of fuel, debasing our food, and filling kids’ minds with toxic agitprop. Under the convenient cover of an exaggerated germ, they opened the largest front of their ongoing attack. The damage was immense, and the carnage persists.
Economies were destroyed, cities decimated, and lives ruined. Child development was delayed, if not derailed. Careers were ended. The rule-of-law was dismissed, and rights overrun. And far too many supine citizens were more than willing to hand them over.
How’d it happen? Inflation was the key. Without counterfeit currency conjured by a corrupt government, the door to every other calamity couldn’t have opened.
Without dispensing fake cash, small businesses couldn’t have been closed, large ones subsidized, or supply lines severed. But when phony money stifles supply and stimulates demand, consequences arise. And we’re suffering them now.
I’m not deluded or narcissistic enough to deny we’re better off than most anyone who preceded us in human history. Awful as it is, the travesty of the last two years doesn’t compare to the World Wars, the Black Death, the third Godfather movie, or the Second Vatican Council (tho’ I’d like to think our benchmark is a bit higher than that).
For the most part, shelter and sustenance are not (yet) daily concerns of modern man. Throughout history, famine was a regular recurrence. Now, in most of the developed world, it’s almost unheard of. That food may not be readily available is a thought that (till recently) never crossed most American minds.
And, for all its flaws, we have modern medicine. We don’t expect our children to perish as infants, or our wives to die while giving them birth. We have speedy transportation, refrigerated food, temperate shelter, anesthesia, antibiotics, and dentistry.
We don’t live a hand-to-mouth existence dependent upon the strength of animals, the scourge of slavery, or the limited extent of our own stamina. And rather than succumb to daily exhaustion from scrounging for scraps to stay alive, I’m able to spend my evening sipping Chardonnay while typing this drivel on a hand-held computer.
But there’s a reason modern Americans can act as if every disagreement were a racial affront, treat pronouns as if they were optional adjectives, and bemoan first class misfortune while relaxing in their manufactured misery. It’s because of the industrial discoveries and technological breakthroughs we now take for granted, and that a bunch of ungrateful malcontents insist we give up.
Fossil fuels are the foundation of modern society and civilized life. They are, as Saifedean Ammous called them, nature’s batteries. They’ve essentially harnessed eons of compressed solar power, and preserved it for us to store and use on the fickle whim of our insatiable demand.
Hydrocarbons are the only source of reliable energy. If we want lights to go on whenever we flip the switch, a movie to stream when we tap the app, our food preserved when the sun goes down, or an incubator to sustain a pre-term baby when the wind stays still, we need fossil fuel. Only an incorrigible idiot would willingly give them up. Human ingenuity overcame the constraints of nature. Inhumane ideology wants to reimpose them.
Deprived of oil and coal, most of the developing world would die within days. So would we, and probably sooner. Previously civilized places known for technological innovation and industrial might are already feeling the inevitable effects of abandoning reliable energy.
Since the early twentieth century, cool air has been possible in heat of summer, warm air in the dead of winter, and bright light in the middle of the night. For a hundred years, hydrocarbons have enabled consistent energy generation, transmission, and distribution. This isn’t hard. Until the meddlers butt in to make things difficult.
Now, in California, the governor asks his people to ration power to preserve the grid. Germany, which ditched nuclear power to rely on Russia, is facing similar artificial shortages.
For no conceivable benefit (to most people), this self-inflicted lunacy is producing unnecessary sparsity, price increases, and hardship. Political interests and popular ignorance are conspiring to return us to the literal dark ages. Yet people have convinced themselves we suddenly have “insufficient” energy, and that its “scarcity” is a function of our own selfish prodigality rather than of government malfeasance.
These are all unforced errors…or, perhaps intentional ones. And none of it is necessary, particularly to prevent planetary catastrophe from a trace gas that’s essential to human life and no danger to the earth. The very notion that carbon dioxide is an existential threat is preposterous.
We need more carbon emission, not less. And developing countries need much more. As carbon emissions rise, civilization and quality of life advance. To the extent the world-improvers press for its significant reduction, the carbon they’ll end up eliminating will be us.
Those pushing us toward the cliff are as silly as they are sinister. As if to mock the deepening derangement of modern society, there’s an actual White House position for something called a “National Climate Advisor”. And a real person occupies it, presumably to enact “policy“ to carefully calibrate the temperature of the earth. How can anyone read that without rolling his eyes, laughing out loud, and reaching for his wallet?
This is deranged, and another pseudo-scientific embarrassment from the same people that brought us the Covid fiasco and the Orwellian (if erstwhile) “Disinformation Governance Board”. Altho’ that agency’s overt idiocy, creepy intent, and wacky administrator compelled the White House to pull the plug (for the time being), it did reveal that they want to prescribe our opinions and proscribe what we think. Yet far too few of us are appalled by such unfettered arrogance.
But it gets worse. Fossil fuels aren’t the only thing they’re trying to take away. After another series of horrific shootings, our illustrious leaders did what they always do. They rushed to judgment and jumped to conclusions. They carelessly considered the evidence before it arrived, quickly adopted their preconceived notions, and proceeded to punish the usual suspects: us.
We are told by our heavily-guarded overlords that the best way to keep children safe is to disarm law-abiding citizens, many of whom own their guns to protect those children.
The same people who locked us in our homes, closed small businesses, covered our faces, destroyed our dollars, blockaded our energy, prohibited travel, shuttered schools, coerced mass medication, and provoke nuclear war want us to believe that giving them and the rest of society’s criminals a monopoly on gun ownership is simple “common sense”.
Meanwhile, as they try to take weapons from Americans, they send as many as possible to Ukraine. And during the atrocity in Uvaldi, the men we’re told to trust with guns acted as if they were protecting a crazed shooter from unarmed parents. These government agents cuffed desperate mothers, who tried valiantly to do what cops confessed they were afraid to do.
Among the fundamental rights of a free people is that of self-defense. It’s not negotiable, especially with the entity against which it is most needed. But as is becoming increasingly common, there seems to be a coordinated global effort to consolidate control. Even without the convenient pretense of several shootings, leaders of Canada (of course) and Chile unilaterally announced plans to strip citizens of their right to own guns.
We saw this week that the US government is more than willing to milk this opportunity, without even pretending they have any constitutional authority to do so. They simply don’t care. And they no longer care that we know they don’t care. It’s become that brazen.
As with all our rights, the Constitution merely codifies the one to bear arms; it doesn’t grant it. Even if the Second Amendment were repealed, the Ninth reiterates our implicit right to own guns, and the Tenth would prohibit the US government from infringing it. But it obviously won’t stop it from doing so.
Regardless, the right still exists. That’s why it’s a “right”. It’s natural, inherent, and inalienable.
As history has proven, your own government is your natural enemy. Many think of it as a guard dog, a reliable pet keeping them safe from external foes. Instead, it’s a predatory wolf. We like to pretend we have it fenced in and on a leash. In reality we’re the ones in the cage, and the collar is on us.
This hound is rabid. It gives us no choice but to feed it, and it is the only animal that gets hungrier as it eats. As we’ve seen, it can’t be contained, and will bare its teeth the moment we try.
The only recourse is to just shoot the damn thing.
JD
