Where Is Thy Sting?
It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye
It’s interesting that my last post would see an explosion in readership, yet a few folks unsub. Perhaps it was my playfully ironic headline, or fear of receiving subversive literature in their inboxes? Fear of The Man and the embedded programming associated with it is difficult to unplug.
The thing is, we are far beyond political labels now. Far-left and alt-right, liberal and conservative, socialist and fascist - these are all meaningless in the GlobalRev. The choice is very clear and simple: Life or Death. To use pop culture references, we are engaged in a battle between the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters.
Notice that in politics, there’s always just two choices. If you are not one, then you must be the other. There is no middle ground or alternative points of view. While it makes thing less messy, it tends to make the labels pointless. Each side or “wing” must perforce include such a broad spectrum of views that they are not so much choices, but corrals for the herd - bulls over here and heifers over there.
The whole concept of “left” and “right” arose in France in 1789, when members of the National Assembly were debating how much of their souls to give to the Crown. In classic childishness, the members clumped in ideological cliques, with those wanting a weaker king on the left, and a stronger king on the right. We note that both sides wanted a king in any case.
Since that time, you had to join one or the other side. Anyone thinking independently or choosing a different ideology was simply marginalized and left out of the debate. Whatever the label, you only have two choices if you want to participate. I think of this as the “sports team” mentality: either you are offense or defense, shirts or skins, home or visitor. Politics has been reduced to these two sides running up and down the field, vying for position and struggling to score, but never leaving the field. The only real alternative is to be a referee (judiciary), but anymore even that has been grossly polarized.
As Henry Ford famously said of his Model T, “You can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.”
In American politics, we saw the rise of parties almost as fast as the Constitution was illegally ratified. Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party, which split in 1834, with the Democrats favoring slavery and the Republican demanding abolition. For nearly 200 years, one had just these two choices to participate. No other parties have had any real hope of significant representation, and the two sides have remained more or less evenly split over time. This situation has given rise to entrenched ideologies and inevitable corruption, as well as being so broadly constituted as to dilute any agendas to toothless whining.
Until GlobalRev.
The “left,” for lack of a better term, have pushed their ideology so far to the edge of the spectrum while erecting social and legal barricades to alternative thought that literally the vast majority of the world has ended up on the “right”. There aren’t any labels available for what we see, other than perhaps “human”. Any school of thought that is not in their purview is immediately lablled “far right” and waved away like mosquitoes on a camping trip.
The “left” have become an ideology of death, destruction, conflagration, and intolerance, while the “right” is pretty much everyone else, at least in the view of the establishment. There are plenty of dissenting views on the “right,” but at the moment there is only one goal among them - the eradication of the Death Eaters.
The “leftist” agenda is to wipe out the entire social order and a significant number of humans in the process. They are attacking borders, family, history, language, culture, beliefs, and even the air, food and water that are the sources of life. Their sole purpose is to tear down thousands of years of human development and “re-wild” the entire planet. If you ask them what they will replace it with, they have no idea. Complete destruction is the End Game.
The “left” has replaced the church with the State, created their own “End is Nigh” narradigm, established their own litany of saints, enforced their own Virtues and Sins, and all of it in the service of Death. One can only assume that they are so grossly unhappy with themselves that they must destroy everything else in search of relief.
These Death Eaters are a small, but tireless and vocal group. They have no other distractions, like family or community. Their hubris is unbounded, with every cause they undertake in the name of “saving the planet,” as if they have any real clue what the planet wants, and assuming that we humans are somehow unnatural and in opposition to Nature.
The Death Eaters are fundamentally confused and disturbed. They actually think that by creating layers upon layers of bureaucracy to regulate every minute aspect of human existence, they will finally establish a utopian world, where variables are eliminated and growth is harnessed. Their philosophy is inherently antithetic to their own existence, not to mention everyone else’s.
The one consolation we Lifers have is that the Death Eaters’ philosophy will inevitably lead to their own extinction. Those who want death usually find it. In the meantime, it is up to the rest of us to keep these disturbed minds contained until they ultimately find their desired demise. This is the GlobalRev - damage control.
Like the neighborhood eccentric, we Lifers will put up with the odd fellows, as long as they aren’t destructive to anyone else. A little eccentricity keeps life colorful. But when they start throwing rocks at the kids and setting fires in other folks’ yards, it’s time to put the brakes on.
Since the Death Eaters don’t breed, and prefer to indoctrinate other people’s children to carry on their insanity, it’s a fairly clear course of action we must take. Contain the Death Eaters - keep them away from the children, keep them out of powerful positions, and take away their megaphones. They need to be isolated, and we Lifers have to be willing to listen to the screaming insults, kicked doors and shrieking tantrums for as long as it takes to bring these poor, delusional humans back to reality.
Most humans are naturally tolerant and patient. We love life and think everyone should get a fair shake at it, but we need to remember that there are threats out there that cannot be tolerated beyond the point of reason.
And the Death Eaters have gone far beyond reason and propriety.
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Lifers vs Death Eaters says it all.
Yes, they are an existential threat.
Happy to hear your readership is up.
'bout time.