Don’t let your guard down

Far too many people on our side are feeling a sense of optimism, that somehow the tide is turning in our favor, and that the entire lockdown/mask/vax edifice will come crumbling down in the near future. They are partying prematurely. I want that to happen, and I do see the signs that a shift is taking place among millions of people who are now awakening to the reality of approaching authoritarianism. But I feel a deep unease. Something fundamental has changed irrevocably in the world. A primitive collective capacity for bottomless cruelty has been awakened, and the upper class knows it. They are busy exploiting it, using this moment to drag the modern world into a new Dark Age of their own design. Instances such as the one below are just the most visible sign of this collective cruelty. Never underestimate the thing we are dealing with. The State, an ancient evil intertwined with us as a species, its code seared onto our DNA. The State is within us, an evolutionary artifact that our primitive nature unceasingly seeks to see rebuilt. Never believe that it doesn’t have many more tricks up its sleeve. A crippled economy, a populace desperate and angry, policies in place that prevent the economy from self-healing, something is coming to a head. We are in the eye of the storm, and we now are entering a truly dark winter, one entirely self-inflicted. This government-made crisis will be used by government as pretext for something awful. We are being dragged towards something, and we are not doing enough to bring movement to a complete stop.

Author: S. Smith