We’re approaching what should be considered one of the most significant and ominous anniversaries that our species has ever observed, but it will pass unobserved aside from a handful of scattered individuals who understand its significance. Not the four-year anniversary of The Virus, COVID-19, but the anniversary of the modern world’s total descent into a primordial Hell, a more fully-formed reversion to a demon-haunted world that the West has ever before indulged in. Totalitarianism did emerge, yes, but it was the natural byproduct of what emerged within the psyches of hundreds of millions of subjects of a spiritually and morally decayed West. ‘The West’ hasn’t been the West for decades. We’ve lived off its fumes, but the tank is empty. Like living and working under the warm light of the sun, blissfully ignorant that the star burnt out years ago. The light is still traveling here, even as the life-giving star has died. The humanizing character of the West has died, and we were treated to a front-row seat of the consequences. An almost immediate reversion to a savage state, combined with a desire to punish, and a clamoring for the Total State.
Beginning in middle March, 2020, that State was being built quickly over the next few months, as the delirium over a Doomsday Virus reverted every unguarded mind back to factory settings. The savage sprung forth from the subconscious of many of the formerly “civilized”, and they began right to work, dismantling the strange world around them, on instinct. The worst part of all this wasn’t the naked viciousness of these reborn primitives, but the way that almost every strata of society meekly assented to their demands. School boards, hospitals, police, every public place, all complied with the demands of the totalitarians with straight faces. A new religion was born, or an old one reborn, and everyone formerly stuck in meaningless, dead-end lives saw a return of meaning, and so they bound themselves to it.
And yet, for some reason, apocalypse passed us by. We emerged from the other side, battered but still here. Many died, many were ruined, many suffered severe indignities, and yet civilization itself didn’t permanently descend into a Soviet-style dictatorship.
And now we pretend like this didn’t happen, or that it didn’t happen the way we remember. The US government doesn’t even acknowledge that anything much happened four years ago, and will let this date pass by unobserved, while we’re made to shuffle our schedules for President’s Day and other faux holidays. This should be considered much more ominous that it currently is. Something primitive and evil is frustrated that it didn’t bring to fruition the end of the modern world, the extermination of freedom. A dark spirit, that is still here, moving invisibly around us, but ensuring that our memory of the attempt is as distorted and weakened as possible.
