Friday, December 22, 2023

"Civilizational Jenga" by Glenn Reynolds and Other Essays

Malachi 4:

1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud and arrogant, yes, and all that do wickedly and are lawless, shall be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you who revere and worshipfully fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings and His beams, and you shall go forth and gambol like calves released from the stall and leap for joy.

Civilizational Jenga – by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (substack.com):

“What makes me sad now is the ongoing game of Civilizational Jenga that our ruling class is playing. One by one, they’re withdrawing the supports of civil society, in a process that will inevitably lead to a collapse. They’re taking what was a very robust society, and consuming all the safety margins, bit by bit.

What really makes me sad is that while some of the people involved – let’s call them “the morons” for convenience’s sake – are doing this out of shortsightedness, cupidity, or sheer partisan bloodthirstiness, I’m increasingly convinced that there’s a contingent at the top that knows exactly what it’s doing, and is fine with it. …

Say the various Democratic flacks, special prosecutors, and state attorneys general somehow manage to eliminate Trump. What happens?

Half the country – maybe more – will conclude that the whole system is rigged, that the establishment doesn’t follow the rules, and that it will gang up on anyone it sees is a threat. They will conclude, in short, that the government, and indeed the entire system, is illegitimate. 

And they will be right. And the politicians of even a generation ago recognized that as enormously dangerous.

What bothers me the most is that the powers that be today don’t seem to care. Perhaps they feel so secure in their grip on power that they expect never to be held accountable. (They seem very smug about their mastery of slipperiness and complex rules, but you know, the Gordian Knot was solved through a different approach.)

Maybe they don’t think they need legitimacy as long as they control the sword, the purse, and the press. But even dictatorships do their best to promote legitimacy, and think twice before going out of their way to convince half the population of their lack thereof.

Perhaps, as some say, the Never-Trumper crowd is actually gearing up for a second Civil War. Certainly there seem to be some idiots on X (formerly Twitter – do we still need to say that, and why?) who are all in for it. Larry Correia has a minor hobby in batting them down.

You’d have to be a moron – or China — to want an American Civil War. But then again, the Biden Administration is removing the Reconciliation Monument – a post Civil War memorial marking a return to American unity – as part of the post-George Floyd revisiting of the Civil War.  

As David Strom writes: “Speaking practically, history has shown that even though the Southern states rose against the federal government, over the past century, our most patriotic and self-sacrificial defenders of our country have come from citizens of the South. Tearing down the reconciliation monument is spitting in the face of the memory of these citizens’ ancestors and a rejection of recognizing the complications in America’s history. It is, in other words, both offensive and stupid. I say this as an admirer of Lincoln’s cause and a strong opponent of the Southern ideology.”” …….

Everything from the VAXX/Virus Bio-Attack to the State-Sponsored City-Burnings to the Proxy War on Russia America to Open Borders with World Welfare to the Abolition of Law to Spaying and Neutering Children to Fentanyl Breakfast Flakes are all designed to Crash the System for a One World Government.

Are The Nephilim Alive TODAY? - Troy Brewer - YouTube


AUDIO: Excerpt From 'Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age' (substack.com)--Dr. Naomi Wolf

(see also: Rest in the Vine: "Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age" by Dr. Naomi Wolf)

The Orange Death | The Z Blog (thezman.com):

“As I pointed out after the debate, a big reason why things are getting so squirrely is the people in charge are shockingly stupid. Within living memory, the party rulers would have made sure a dunce like Nikki Haley remained down on the farm. She probably never would have made it past state rep. In the land of two-digit simpletons, a lantern-jawed Karen rises to the top of the political heap.

It is the declining competence that is the primary cause of the unrest. Savvy rulers would understand that they always have two primary challenges. One is the palace coup, and the other is the peasant revolt. The former is an internal matter, but the latter is the one that keeps them in power. Always appear to be on the right side of the majority and the peasants will tolerate just about anything.

This crew has everything backwards. They have made their intrigues the focus of our politics and they fight one another to see who is the most spiteful and nasty to the common people. War Karen exists because the Mortimer and Randolph sponsoring her think it is hilarious that she makes the rubes vomit in their mouths. Imagine what they have planned for the coming election.” …….

(Also see : The Night Of The Cobra)

Divorce Court | The Z Blog (thezman.com)

"People who quit their jobs always quit in their mind before they quit the actual job. There is a period where you can tell they are no longer committed to their work, even though they go about it as usual. That person is going through that shift from one normal to another normal.

Such a thing happened to the American people in the 2020 elections when the results miraculously changed in the late hours. Millions of people went from thinking that such a thing could never happen in America to realizing that it was actually happening, to now accepting it as a part of the new normal. In a way, those people went through a divorce and on the other side was their idea of old America. They are now in an apartment, perhaps dating new America, while old America got the house.

The same sort of thing may be happening with this election. For a long time now, a few weirdos have been predicting a new round of shenanigans. This time the regime’s schemers would keep Trump off the ballot, rather than risk him overcoming the election schemes to win the general. Some even suggested that the GOP would collude with their friends across the aisle to get Trump jammed up legally to the point where the party would have no choice but to disqualify him.

Your typical middle-class white person, the real core of the Trump voting bloc, dismissed these claims, but now they watch as the system slowly wraps itself around Trump like an anaconda. He was just removed from the ballot in Colorado on the grounds that the judges think Hitler is under their beds. The ruling is a blend of bourgeois hysteria and ideological madness. There are cases like this in other states that will surely end the same way. ....

Regardless of who the party selects to be the figurehead, the people who vote Republican, especially those Trump loyalist, will enter into that phase where they come to terms with that which they thought was impossible. Not only do the Democrats play fast and loose with election laws, but the Republicans coordinate with them to rig their own nominating process. The last holdouts of old America will suddenly have to accept that old America is gone, and divorce is inevitable.

The phase change one experiences in a breakup happens both fast and slow, in that it feels like a switch has been thrown, but then there is a long slow aftermath. Once you realize the relationship cannot be repaired, there is the process of unwinding it, which is often quite ugly. A terrible truth of the human condition is that it feels good to hate, especially when you need someone to blame. White America’s divorce from old America will be as acrimonious and eventful as any divorce.

The difference here is that half the country is not going to pack up and move to another part of town. Instead, the number of people who accept that it is who is in charge is what matters, rather than how they rule, will continue to grow. The amount of noticing we see online is a great indicator of what is happening. There are things on social media that would not have been uttered in private a decade ago. Again, another sign that old America is never coming back." .......

True--old America is never coming back. But the New America our God is establishing will be even greater than the old!


Psalm 68

1
God arises. His enemies scatter,
and those who hate Him flee from His presence.
2
As smoke is blown away,
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
3
But the righteous are glad;
they rejoice before God and celebrate with joy.


Amen, King Jesus!

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