THE GEORGIA SHOOTING: ANOTHER REALITY CHECK

        With the Conservative-Industrial Complex continuing to embrace such winning strategies as subsidizing Big Pharma and the Insurance Cartels for In-Vitro Fertilization, fighting initiatives to free people trapped in the Student Loan Scam, and arguing that Big Ag price-gouging isn't really an issue, Reality has once again made itself felt.

     Today the 14-y/o son of a heroic single mom and her bad-boy ex-lover who was profiled but ignored as a potential problem case, attacked and wounded several people at one of the worst school systems in Georgia. Police immediately were on the scene, setting up press conferences to brag about their response times and grandstand; politicians in both wings of the Uniparty were exploiting the situation for political capital and pointing fingers at each other; school officials and CPS were busily avoiding the media and circling their wagons to evade any responsibility---in other words, just a typical day in our exceptional, postmodern dystopia. In fact, now that they can't blame the shooting on Kamala Harris, the Controlled Opposition has moved on to the exciting news that some members of Tim Walz' family are on social media supporting Trump and what a wonderful opportunity this presents to own those Libtards. 

    I did come across one social media post on the Georgia shooting that restored some optimism that there is still Common Sense in America:

      Such views are of course in the minority, since they don't generate controversy and come too close to the truth. The author is on the right track, though I don't share his faith that CPS would have been any more help to this guy than anybody else was. 

    We have evolved into a culture where every aspect of society is geared to mass-marketing; hence human beings are expendable. Children and legal 'minors' are especially vulnerable because they have no rights and are generally considered a liability rather than an asset in a system where everything is weighed against a Cost/Benefit Analysis. As far as a 'motive' goes; I would surmise that this kid probably had a keen sense of his own expendability and lashed out symbolically by expending others. In fact, most mass-shootings and suicides within this age group likely fit this dynamic, though it is never discussed. It's easier (and more profitable) to blame access to guns or to Tik-Tok.

   We live today in a social atmosphere that is permeated with stress and tension; and as we have pointed out on multiple occasions, this is deliberately being cultivated by the ruling class. The swine in the Corporate Media praise scenes of the most barbaric genocide seen since the 1940s and promote apathy towards graphic violence through the cultural and entertainment media---most of which is met with bored public indifference on the surface. However, that superficial ennui doesn't conceal the human instinct that most feel: that one's own survival is equally precarious. Socially, this fear and insecurity leads to an undue focus on the self, on survival; which in turn is exploited by the same Elites who preach a survival-of-the-fittest doctrine. In other words, it creates, on a social level, a vicious circle where people have dangled before them goals that they can never reach while simultaneously being shamed and treated as inferiors because they can't reach them. Mass-murders, suicides, and addictions are the inevitable result in such a social system.

    Since the end of the Second World War, we've seen a breakdown of family, community, and our institutions. The stability of such institutions are what instills not only the values but the emotional equilibrium of the young in a civilized society. The breakdown of these communities and the collective focus on narcissistic self-fulfillment has had an effect on the generations which grew up within it. An increase in juvenile crime, addiction, mental illness, and homosexuality are the symptoms of a social system nearing its collapse. However, most choose to deny these things and focus on the political and economic opportunism afforded by the New Normal. The public's response: looking the other way, looking out for #1, and---above all---looking for ways to game the system to their own advantage has brought us to this point. 

   We have to start facing the facts that Government by Marketing Experts hasn't worked. It didn't work for the Marxists, but somehow the New Right believes in the infallibility of Monopoly Capitalism, which isn't working either. The problem with both systems is that they are deterministic in their attitudes both about human nature and the direction of history. The True Believers will deny all of that; but in reality the New Right is just as enamored of Scientism and Materialistic Determinism as the New Left is. When Marxism failed, the State resorted to force which was the only appeal it could make, today's political Right does exactly the same thing. 

    Instead of copying the Left and doubling-down, the Right needs to stop and evaluate themselves. Just as in individual psychology the first step to a cure is admitting that one has a problem, the first thing that our side needs to do is to get out of this state of chronic Denialism and scapegoating and start facing the facts. The community that the Georgia shooter lived in was a failed community within a failed State within a failed Nation operating under a failed philosophy. That is how the issues mentioned at the top of the article plays themselves out in Real Life. The attitudes that human life belongs to the Elites; that people who get scammed deserve what they get; and that exploited workers and consumers are just jealous of the people who exploit them naturally generates explosions of frustrated rage turned outward (mass-shootings) or turned inwards (suicides) or both (addiction, sexual perversion). 

   Likewise, the above-mentioned the Strategy of Tension has as its ultimate goal the channelling of all of this projected rage into a strong authoritarian movement and the result of that is the kinds of mass-psychosis that manifested itself with the French Jacobins, the Russian Bolsheviks, the German Nazis, the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, and the contemporary Israeli Zionists. The New World Order that we've been pursuing since 1990 isn't going to end any differently and we need to stop deluding ourselves that it will.