Reader’s Note: Today’s rant was inspired with thanks by a comment from Amanda R. on the need for anarchy to combat the Bumbledicks. Can’t argue with that.
Aristotle noted that democracies would likely fail in populations that were too diverse or disunified. As we have seen over the past two decades, greater diversity and disunification have been the precise targets of the Western powers.
I first noticed the term Our Democracy® used extensively by Hillary Clinton in her third failed attempt to steal the White House. I thought it was an unusual concept, obviously attempting to personalize a political concept—our personal version of democracy, rather than, say, the Classical textbook definition.
The term was picked up and soon became the mantra of Bumbledicks in all parties and contexts. It is fair to say that “they” have agreed amongst themselves that the term has a special meaning, so “they” can talk in code to each other right in front of our faces.
It seems to have originated among early 20th century Progressives, with Franklin Roosevelt using similar language to distinguish American versions of Fascism and Socialism, from movements in other countries—the so-called Third Way and New Deal, echoed today as Our Democracy® and The Great Reset®.
The Illuminati have been demonized for at least a century, especially among those trying to find someone or something to blame—other than the people themselves for lack of vigilance. Granted, Adam Weisshaupt and his followers in the Bavarian Illuminati were not nice folks, but the term “Illuminati” was actually a broad reference to adherents of the European Enlightenment and its core principles.
The European Enlightenment (c. 17th–19th century) was an intellectual movement that emphasised reason, individual rights, and scientific progress. It challenged traditional authority, particularly absolute monarchy and religious dogma, laying the groundwork for modern democracy, secularism, and human rights.
It was the Illuminati ideals that created the United States, introduced the concept of separation of church and state, created statistics and polling, and led to a scientific revolution in the mid- to late-1800s.
The Illuminati initiated the downfall of European monarchies, the collapse of theistic empires, and the rise of the technocratic state. The Enlightenment ideals, by accident or design, have been warped into tools of previously unimaginable oppression and social engineering.
In a sense, we are reliving the Tower of Babel Moment, as Leonard Bernstein put it. The Illuminati sought to recreate a Golden Age of Humanity, where reason and rationalism were the pinnacle of human endeavor, science and math were the universal language, and government was an extension of self-governance and individual sovereignty.
Thinkers such as Descartes, Voltaire, Kant, Bacon, Locke, and Newton envisioned humanity achieving god-like status—apotheosis—by sheer force of intellectual will. The United States were expressly founded with the purpose of initiating and establishing the Great New Secular Society, Novus Ordo Seclorum, the Illuminati state for the ages, the “shining city on the hill” that would lead into the brave new realm of both individual and collective enlightenment.
Instead, education has been deformed into schooling, science has been perverted into religion, and unalienable rights have been corrupted into civil rights, handed out like candy to preferred courtesans.
Even the word “un-a-LIEN-able”—no one may place a lien or claim of ownership—has been bent into “in-ALIEN-able”—cannot be made foreign. Thus, instead of all humans possessing innate Natural Rights of which they cannot be dispossessed, they are now civil privileges issued by governing bodies as rewards for good behavior and “citizenship” to favored classes.
And so we return to Our Democracy®. This term in no way implies or denotes Enlightenment ideals of self-governance and individual sovereignty. Instead, it is a code for neo-monarchy, a system in which a single corporate entity, in whatever collective guise it takes, embodies and possesses all rights, power, wealth, and sovereignty of “the people”.
As such, Our Democracy® is empowered to empty the royal fisc (treasury), elevate privileged groups and denigrate those who aren’t, use whatever means at hand to subjugate and rule, and all by virtue of having been “elected,” which itself is a perversion of scientific method and observation (polling and statistics).
In a sense, Our Democracy® is a true democracy. It is the use of absolute power by a “majority” (whether real or perceived) to do whatever it wishes to whomever it desires.
Our Democracy® may create money out of thin air to fund whatever programs it so desires, without regard to the unalienable rights of the “minority”. When challenged, it feels rightful in unleashing fear, violence, and terror to herd the unruly masses. It has no boundaries, because of its distorted Darwinian worldview—might makes right.
Ultimately, the blame for Our Democracy® falls on all of us. We allowed ourselves to be misled. We ignored the warnings of our predecessors. We succumbed to greed, comfort and convenience, letting material gain substitute for merit and productivity. We deceived ourselves into believing the System itself was self-correcting. We engaged the autopilot.
As we sit here, the Enlightenment is dying on the land of its birth. Romania, Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands, Austria, and now England and France themselves have all banned, jailed and persecuted anyone who threatens Our Democracy®. The US has been in a virtual orgy of lawfare, viciously attacking anyone who dares to challenge Our Democracy®. The Great Society shining on the hill has become the buried city in the valley, swamped by a landslide of perverse entitlement and unbridled ambition.
As old Bobby Dylan said, “You find out when reach the top, you’re on the bottom.”
It’s ironic that the counter-culture of my youth, who eschewed the responsibilities of freedom and liberty in favor of the negative aspects of licentiousness and narcissism, have become the authoritarians. In a sense, we are all suffering from their attempt to find the discipline they never had.
To continue Bobby’s thoughts, “We are idiots, babe. It’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves.”
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Went to the cinema for the first time since before the Black Death. Mrs. FarSide wanted to see The Last Supper (2025). No aliens, three brief miracles, and a severe lack of lighting, as is all the rage these days. Good acting and direction. They didn’t show the crucifixion or resurrection, so clearly they are rebooting the franchise and setting up for at least one sequel. As soon as I saw the exteriors, I thought, “Man, that looks a lot like Morocco.” Guess where they shot it.
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In the counterculture of my youth, I wasn't against the culture; I was against the Vietnam War. Specifically, my compatriots and I were against the Military Draft Lottery. None of us wanted our birthdates pulled out of that lottery drum to win a free trip, gun, and uniform to go to Vietnam.
We liked the culture of Nebraskans and South Dakotans. It was live and let live. Guns and ammo were easy to buy. Driver's licenses were sold at the local hardware store. People were honest and kind.
As for "licentiousness", well, the hippie chicks decided who had that. We just wanted to smoke some dope, listen to music, and make enough money to get by. We didn't want our dads' 9-5 job regimen. It killed them. We saw their lives as we grew up. No thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hln19l9RtWg
Terry Thomas was right. The American wives sit under hair dryers reading magazines and eating bon bons, while their husbands work themselves to death and die of thrombosis.
I'm with Amanda. Anarchy is the way. Well, that and another pint.