Kabul makes clear that our government does not care

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Look at the way our gov’t has handled the Afghan exit. It’s like someone dumping their garbage in the middle of the street, or a drunk driver leaving the scene of an accident. They don’t care. This indifference is institutional. The State Dept., the Presidency, even Congress, does not care about the violence and chaos that has erupted. They don’t care about the thousands of Americans left in Afghanistan and who will now be used as hostages to negotiate the release of Taliban held at Guantanamo. Afghanistan served as a make-work project for weapons manufacturers, and for generals to receive medals. There was no noble goal behind it all.

I wonder what Trump would’ve done. As much as I hate to say it, we know what he would’ve done. The Tomahawks would’ve flown, the reapers would’ve rained death. The soldiers of fortune would have been given their gold and their license to kill. Trump would have ordered attacks at random on approaching Taliban. After a few of these attacks, the Taliban would have slowed to a crawl. It is not a pleasant thing to think about. But Trump would’ve provided the deterrent effect that is nowhere to be seen right now.

Masks don’t work because COVID is spread through aerosols

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If someone inhaled cigarette smoke, put on a mask, and then exhaled, would the smoke get past the mask? And if it did, would you be able to smell it if you also had a mask? How many days will those smoke particles linger in the air, long after the smoker is gone? Rhetorical. Masks and social distancing are pseudoscientific garbage.

There can be no middle ground with the totalitarianism

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The total State is its own entity. It may be made up of individual people, but together they form something outside of nature. The State: the virgin-sacrificing, sun-worshipping, skull-piling, population-enslaving evil that has been with us since the dawn of our species, is reemerging in various formerly “free” nations in the shadow of a “war on COVID”. It is in our nature to build the State, just as it is in the nature of a spider to spin a web. We backpedal into it, and often don’t realize what we’ve done until it is too late. That is the reason that freedom is so precious, and why so many have died to achieve it. That’s the reason for constitutions, law, and even government itself. The State is encoded in our DNA. There is no escaping it. But we can mitigate against it. We consciously create a tiny part of that evil, and then bind it down with the best runes and incantations we can muster. This thing we then call “government”, the institution that guards against the rise of the State. But sometimes it gets out. Amid crisis we naively believe that the chains binding it can be loosened. But look at the result of doing so.

 

And now Australia is shooting rescue dogs over COVID restrictions to prevent anyone from coming to pick them up.

COVID, the god that failed

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I never stop thinking about the fact that, although we may one day totally emerge from this rapid descent into fundamentalist totalitarianism, the people who bought into the prophecy of the Doomsday pathogen will never be the same again. Amidst the chaos and impending doom, their hunter-gatherer, tribal sentiments were stimulated and awakened. They saw, for the first time, the modern world through the eyes of one of our superstition-riddled ancestors. Everything looked so disordered and alien. We must have Authority. We must have Order. A war between My Tribe against the Other Tribe. For these people, modernity itself had become the enemy. Freedom, individual choice, the unrestrained social forces, from it all emanated doom. Although they will never admit it, even to themselves, only a new Dark Age would have satisfied their evolved psychological thirst. This lust for a return to a rigid Puritanism is evident in their words and actions. The masks that they continue to wear are the visible symbol of their faith. They know they don’t work. Their rabid hatred of the unmasked and unafraid signifies their hatred of those who refuse to submit to their new belief system. For a brief moment, these newborn primitives saw a world coming into view, an ancient evil forcing itself onto our plane of existence, and in it they saw their salvation. The virus became their savior, and they became its congregation. A new dawn, the sudden eruption of a societal caldera, the emergence of the total State under the Armaggedon eclipse, to these new primitives it was rapture. You see it in their faces now, the unaknowledged pain of realizing that their god has failed to make good on its promises. They will now be a scattered congregation, always seeking for something to fill the new void within themselves. Let’s hope they never find it.