Don’t believe what you hear,
Don’t believe what you see,
If you just close your eyes, you can feel the enemy.
U2, “Acrobat”
I suppose Bono meant the enemy inside of us, the one who dwells on the dark side of what Solzhenitsyn called the “barbed wire stretched across every heart,” and which Bono later spoke of as “your own spleen, your own hypocrisy, your own ability to change shape and take on the colors of whatever environment you're in,” but at other times, hinted at its alliance with a deeper Enemy still.
1991...but this was a 2021 week of seeing enemies at work out in the open, of certain campaigns of opinion-shaping and rule-pronouncing that were coordinated in advance deploying their forces.
In Australia, helicopters over the beach—this video has no sound, but your mind’s ear can imagine it well enough:
Also there, a man almost dying from a no-mask arrest, hopeless speeches in the Senate, cities blockaded, grocery stores closed to a whole class of citizens, troops in the streets, and civil-breakdown-level chaos beckoning.
In my beloved San Diego, casual fascists on the beach, casually talking about locking up their neighbors.
At university after university, commands to either report vaccination status, with some threatening to expel those who do not get vaccinated. Yes, the memos went out. The email chains of our oligarch overlords have been busy.
In NYC and LA, the roll-out of dual-citizenship status—I mean vaccine passports for most public amenities and places. Already passed in Italy and France. Also Quebec now. Double-talk from our President about whether he wants this, but he does issue a mandate for active military personnel.
In every school district in America, a promise from the teacher’s unions that they are going to fight parents wanting the masks off, endlessly. Here in Utah, I hear parent activists talking of mass disenrollments. So, major conflicts district-by-district and school-by-school are now inevitable across America; they may call it “re-opening” but it looks like another year of a whole lot of education getting flushed down the tubes.
(BTW, any readers in the Utah area, check out the website Utah Parents United, and join me an tens of thousands of others for one of Utah Revival’s two protests, in SLC on the 14th and St. George on the 12th. Governor Cox is starting to make DeBlasio-like noises.)
And then there’s this, frontal and even admitted-by-the-President violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers and presentment clause by his CDC! Not on a small issue, but on the very existence of the 5th and 14th amendment property rights of landlords!
See 6:36-7:12 for Biden’s admission of unconstitutional action. I would add, of an impeachment-worthy action. If GOP retakes the House, impeachment of Joseph Biden will be a partially strategic decision, but it is plain that he richly deserves it now.
In any case, that anti-constitutional abomination comes from a president who is so debilitated that he either cannot reliably talk, or really might have wanted to tell reporters that “my butt’s been wiped,” and from a Democrat Party so immersed in the moral merde that it was actually possible for Andrew Cuomo to be a major figure of theirs for decades.
I’m not an expert on Covid-19, and I do not follow the all the debates on it, but the creepiest thing this week is that a new (to me) theory about the variants ties their emergence to the vaccines! And paradoxically, while that suggests that skeptics of lockdown policy and of these vaccines have been right all along about the untrustworthiness of our medical establishment, it may make the case for at least taking this initial round of vaccines even stronger, as it stands to reason, if this theory about “leaky” vaccines enabling mutations (which are more likely to harm the non-vaccinated) is right, that the variants really may turn out to be very bad, and become increasingly so, even if as of this publication, death rates in most areas have not risen by much—a 25% increase since beginning of July is the largest documented increase I’ve noticed so far. Even if the smart bet about the way our oligarchs, Democrat leaders, medical establishment, and legacy media are using the Delta story, at this point remains that this is going to prove to be an engineered scare campaign, combined with a mess of all-too-sincere group-think, I’m starting to get a little scared.
So yeah, to go back to another line from that U2 song, the bastards are getting me down; the battleground of my own soul is looking more WWI-dreary than usual; it’s a bit more likely that I or those I love might get harmed or killed by the Chinese virus; and then there’s the worst thing of all, the thing that down the road, if it does not change, could result in hundreds of millions of killings:
I can’t yet know if my fellow citizens will stand against elementary despotism.
In Australia, they have essentially submitted, and one cannot really explain the depth of the submission by the special Aussie circumstances of not having gotten the vaccine rolled out very quickly.
I will say nothing on any public forum about whether I’ve been vaccinated or not, since it is none of your business, and thus, my duty to stay mum. But my God, it’s clear that plenty of my fellow citizens would like to lock the unvaccinated up, even strap them down and forcibly vaccinate them. They want Despotism, and are scarily close to getting it.
At least here in Utah we’re going to keep fighting the hysteria, diabolic pressure, and pushing of dual citizenship status. Lord help us though, if the pessimistic predictions about the variants prove even a fourth of the way true. Or if our political leaders give up on elementary constitutionality. P.S. I’d like to thank the great Kane for all the info I linked here from his essential site Citizen Free Press.
Similar thoughts occurring at American Mind, but as usual, connected to the AM theory of and focus upon the "regime" and "ruling class." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLZLZ-k7m-k&ab_channel=ClaremontInstitute
Here's a bit more of the Aussie situation, from a populist-conservative perspective. Not sure if this Flat White (Spectator) blog is behind a paywall or not. https://spectator.com.au/2021/07/protests-whatever-for/