Author: S. Smith

In Kenosha, a hellmouth vents

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There’s something very Shakespearian about all that’s happened over the past six months. “Beware the Ides of March”, warns the soothsayer in Julius Caesar. Casca says he has seen lions stalk the streets by night, and men on fire but not affected by the flame.

Here In the real world, In mid-March, and based on little evidence and much fear, our government recklessly flung our priceless social world into the abyss. Chaos and destruction ensued. Locked down, the social world fractured, quaked, and tore itself apart. The class that supported this course of action ignored the effects because, of course, they weren’t effected. The victims of lockdowns were voiceless.

In Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt kills Mercutio under a “boiling sun” during the dog days of late summer. “A plague o’ both your houses!” says Mercutio as he succumbs. Romeo, upon killing Tybalt in murderous vengeance, laments that “I am Fortune’s fool!” Many know the feeling now, and a similar sentiment will be felt by all when we truly understand what’s been forfeited for what is appearing to be an utter lie.

We’ve lived through a summer of death and decay. The lockdowns may have dealt the modern world a mortal wound, we may have fallen below the event horizon, where nothing we can do will bring us out of inevitable collapse. The strangest thing is that it happened so suddenly, which makes one wonder how the human race ever came so far in the first place.

Hellmouths of re-barbarization are venting all over the country. People reverting to their evolutionary programming are stalking the streets.  This primitivism is also manifesting in authoritarian Puritanism surrounding the phony pandemic. Far too many people are beginning to take too cancerous an interest in the personal conduct of others, policing each other for signs of non-conformity. The punishment they dole out is severe: violence, public shaming, “cancellation”. The great evil of our primitive nature is awakening in far too many people.

The Kenosha violence is just one example. It will continue. And it’s no coincidence that this violent upheaval has begun only months after the most devastating social policy ever enacted was put into effect.

All of this brings me back to the famous passage in Edmund Burke’s book on the French Revolution:

”When the age of Miracles lay faded into the distance as an incredible tradition, and even the age of Conventionalities was now old; and Man’s Existence had for long generations rested on mere formulas which were grown hollow by course of time; and it seemed as if no Reality any longer existed, but only Phantasms of realities, and God’s Universe were the work of the Tailor and the Upholsterer mainly, and men wore buckram masks that went about becking and grimacing there,—on a sudden, the Earth yawns asunder, and amid Tartarean smoke, and glare of fierce brightness, rises Sansculottism, many-headed, fire-breathing, and asks: What think ye of me?“

We are witnessing the death of the modern world in real time. Maybe it doesn’t have to be inevitable, maybe it does. But it should be remembered that it wasn’t a natural death. This was murder.

Tweets of the Day

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A true epidemic: 1 in 59 U.S. children diagnosed with autism

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They are not handling COVID hysteria well, and won’t handle the pandemic fundamentalism well at all when they go back to school.

Violence against the mentally disabled by teachers and other students was already tragically high before the COVID madness began. What will it be like this year, when these children refuse to comply with the ridiculous demands made of them?

Identities of rioters who were shot

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From the great Andy Ngo:

Video of Kenosha shooting shows a clear case of self-defense

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17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse flees from pursuing rioter, appears to fire a warning shot to no avail, and then fires the shot that killed the man chasing him. A kid shouldn’t have been in another state in the midst of this chaos, but neither should have the rioters, many of whom come from out of state to commit shocking acts of violence. Judging it just from the 20 seconds that it took for this to happen, it seems to be clear-cut self-defense. I’m not sure what the rioters think will happen when they attack bystanders, burn businesses, and destroy as much as possible? Do they think they’re invincible? That people will submit passively to a beating?

 

Militias offering effective protection in Kenosha since their governor won’t

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Police aren’t able to control the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, so armed private citizens are doing it for them. And much more effectively, apparently.

 

Private citizens, in many ways, are far more secure in their right to self-defense than the police. If five people launch a violent assault on a private citizen, that person is within their rights to gun down their attackers, and won’t face charges. A cop, on the other hand, brings a lot more baggage including the constant threat of bad PR. This is why the rioters will brazenly attack an armed officer, but not an armed private citizen. This is setting the stage for real flare-ups in violence. Seeing that they can get away with violence, the rioters are emboldened. As more militia arrive to protect property, there will be a clash, and a private armed citizen will defend himself and the property with lethal force. 5, 10, 20 rioters will be killed within a few minutes. This will happen, probably within days. The only question is: what happens next? How will the media report on a clear-cut case of lethal self-defense?