REPUBLIC REBORN

Echoes of Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art in this great monologue:

His grandstanding over coronavirus lock-downs received widespread coverage, earning him praise for defending liberty, but in reality he’s nothing more than a corporate welfare addict, whose company wouldn’t exist without the billions in subsidies it has received over the years. And now his big mouth has threatened to cut off the funding that keeps him solvent: California just voted against Musk’s request for a $655,000 hand-out for his company, SpaceX, citing his recent remarks and threats to leave the state.

The petty Stalinism on display here is sickening: the government’s attempt to shut down Karl Manke’s barbershop was struck down, so they turned to regulators who revoked his license.

The Soviets have conquered Michigan, but there has been no Red Dawn invasion. Rather, they have been there all along. They’re American as apple pie, but that won’t stop them from locking you up as retribution for defying their power.

According to county supervisor Jim Desmond.

Falsely inflating the body count isn’t as important now that they’ve received that sweet sweet COVID cash.

The toll is now 878.

New Zealand woman stalked by Subway employee after filling out a contact-tracing form. The form is a requirement to eat at the restaurant.

Or 1.2 million additional under-5 child deaths in just six months among low and middle-income countries.

Do the COVID cultists care about these deaths? Or is this just a dry statistic to them, lost amid their heavy diet of coronavirus propaganda?

And out of over 5,000 deaths, only 246 were people under 60 years of age.

If this were about protecting the vulnerable, nursing homes would’ve been given priority protection. Instead they were forced to accept COVID-positive patients.

This is not about a virus.

I don’t really know what else to call what I see when I go out, or turn on the news, except that a new religious fundamentalism is spreading like a cancer before our eyes. The superstitious fear of an invisible phantom killer moving silently through the masses, the behavioral tenets handed down from On High, the blind worship of ‘Science’, lashing out at non-believers, spreading the gospel of the End of Days, where a Great Flood (in this case, a virus) has been unleashed by an angry god in order to cleanse the Earth of non-believers. The parallels are endless.

As the great Morgan Smith has said, the mask is the new burka, serving a purpose similar to that of the burka. It is a sign of obedience, of submission and allegiance, to the new religion and the new god. Just look how natural it is for us as a species to backpedal straight into the gaping maw of the God State, where religion and authority exist as one. Too many of us are allowing ourselves to be seduced by the easy slavery that this will lead to. Resisting it, though, takes an act of will that not too many possess.

Sure, the acolytes of this reworked fundamentalism speak of Science, but when they do all I hear is God. As I’ve said before, we’re hardwired to seek out a god, and to place it in a position of absolute authority. We’re watching that process play out in broad daylight right in front of us.

And why do most of these people become highly offended when they encounter evidence that the virus may be fading away? Why do they seem not to care about the effects of lockdown on mortality and health? Because it’s a religion they’ve accepted, whether they know it or not.

And really, the news makes much more sense when you realize that millions of people are in thrall to a new religion.

What once appeared insane, now has a pattern, and a logic, however perverse it may be.

From Austen Allred: