City leaders currently allowing mobs to rampage freely through their streets, refusing to denounce the violence and chaos, must believe that by doing so the mob will be more quickly satisfied and dissipate. Let them mindlessly tear down statues, destroy and deface property, attack various bystanders caught in the wrong place and time, and hopefully they’ll just go away, is apparently the logic here. But for a violent mob there is no rhyme or reason, there is no satiating it. Rather, the lack of consequences enflames and emboldens it. And it is definitely an ‘it’. A mob is re-barbarization made starkly visible, in the same way that fire is the more violent, rapid, and destructive form of the oxidation process that the rust is also a part of. The punitive, feeble-minded lockdowns conjured into existence powerful forces of what I can only describe as re-barbarization, where primitive human drives awaken from a civilization-induced slumber and run amok. The mob has no intelligence and no goal other than inflicting chaos and destruction upon a modern world that must appear very unnatural to it. If there exists anything in human nature that could be called ‘original sin’, it’s this primitive impulse to drag society back to the Dark Ages, the impulse that is currently allowed free rein under the guise of ‘anti-racism’. But it’s no longer about racism, or police violence, and sadly it appears that the opportunity for real change in police accountability has passed. The voice of the mob is speaking, and it’s the voice of anti-civilization.
The mob is rejecting the modern world, rejecting the very values of equality and liberty that the modern world was built on. And so it tears down monuments to those ideals. But the toppling of statues will never be enough. The mob, being a predictable force of nature, requires atonement via the deaths of flesh and blood human beings. Not merely the many deaths that have already occurred at the hands of the mob, but executions, will follow from the symbolic destruction of property.
But, American citizens won’t let it come to that. Which is why the next phase of this nation’s spiral will manifest in a populist counter reaction to the left-wing mobs. This will not be a good thing, because it will mean that the citizens of this country have lost their confidence in the ability of their own government to put a stop to the left-wing pogrom. A right-wing analogue will emerge, with their own mob and their own leaders. ‘Law and Order’ will be their rallying cry, and it will attract wide support. Leaders will eventually emerge, and center on personalities that more closely resemble Brazil’s Bolsonaro or the Philippines Duterte. This would be a devastating development, and it would be true, populist fascism. Homegrown, as it always is. They’ll be swept into power in order to subdue the left-wing mobs, but once they’re gone, they won’t leave office. The American Strongman will emerge in what will be the final act of a play that began with a trumped up reaction to a phantom illness that will soon be forgotten.
