This has been one of those weeks where things have happened faster than most of us can keep up with them. The new Operation Warp Speed is speeding us all into the Great Reset much faster than the lethargic Biden Government was doing. This week, the Republicans rounded out filling top posts: among them an operative of BlackRock as policy manager at the State Department. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the latest globalist oligarchs to join Team Woke, contributed a million into the Coronation Ceremonies in January; while WEF linchpin Marc Benioff dedicated an issue of his news outlet Time Magazine to celebrate the Trump Victory. Just four years ago, of course, Benioff dedicated an issue of Time to bragging about how he and Zuckerberg helped Biden 'win,' but these peccadilloes can be overlooked.
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It seems that the public, in this particular case, isn't expressing a great deal of sympathy for the slain CEO. The scum in the Corporate Mainstream Media variously have been trying to explain this phenomenon away by claiming either that such an outpouring of sentiment is "hate-filled extremism" (no doubt fomented by Russian or Chinese operatives) or as "frustration with our national healthcare system." The Controlled Opposition Media---which has a polar opposite reaction whenever a rich guy does the same to a poor one--- is portraying the victim as a heroic martyr just doing his job who was brutally gunned down by an envious Left-Wing Whacko.
The whole affair reminded me of an interview with Richard Nixon shortly after Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. Nixon said:
"The man who was guilty of murdering our president deserved to die, but under our system he was entitled to a trial. Two wrongs don't make a right. As much as all Americans wanted to see the President's murderer brought to justice, under the circumstances, we deplore the law being taken into the hands of a man...It is my hope that all Americans will use that day {Day of Mourning declared by President Johnson} to pledge ourselves to fight this tendency towards hatred and violence that we saw evidenced in the last few days."
My own thoughts are similar to Nixon's. The CEO of United Health Care meeting his demise in front of a firing squad after a fair trial would have been appropriate. The issue here, however, is that we don't have a functioning legal system like we had in 1963; and back then the Government actually reined in predatory Corporations. Also, the tendency that Nixon described then is a New Normal today---in fact one actually encouraged by the Government.
The "frustrations" that Americans feel is not solely with the Health Care System: it is rooted in deep-seated anger against a system in its entirety which no longer represents them or even especially cares about them. In fact, I would say that contempt probably describes the general attitude best that just about anyone in any position of power holds towards anyone who doesn't hold power.
The reality---which most Americans probably will avoid facing---however, is that this situation is largely self-inflicted. Americans for the most part have abandoned any sense of community or any sense of responsibility to a Higher Power and engaged in a sort of war of all-against-all in the pursuit of egotistical greed and personal narcissistic gain. I would wager that the majority of those calling for the targeting of the CEOs would behave exactly like these executives do if they came into their positions themselves.
A Dead White Male spoke of another society much like ours today which it wouldn't hurt to quote here: "They had seen a single lawless will, unchecked by constitutional restraints or ordinary human feeling making sport of the lives and fortunes of men. They had seen the sons of the proudest families selling their ancestral honor for their lives, betraying their nearest and dearest and kissing the hand reeking with innocent blood. They saw that for the last several years, with brief intervals, virtue had been exiled or compelled to hide itself in impotent seclusion, and that power and wealth had been the reward of perfidy and self-abasement."
That author was describing Ancient Rome under the likes of Caligula and Nero, but the passage was striking because it describes so succinctly the American Culture that we have seen develop since the previous quote from Nixon. The Romans were able to turn themselves around and saw better days for the next few centuries, whether we do or not is another matter. In Rome's case, a group who cared about the direction of their country ejected the ruling dynasty and instituted reforms. They did not do as both wings of our Uniparty want to do: seize power to replace one group of villains with another.
Americans have to face the fact that our culture cannot---and never can---function as long as the majority are bent on outsourcing their inalienable human rights to whichever powerful clique favors them. The idolatry of Wealth and Power led to what happened in New York and drove the ruthless exploitation carried out by United Health Care and is also driving the bloodthirsty calls for revenge. If it were anything else, the debate would be focused upon rational reforms instead of one side demanding a police-state crackdown and the other demanding lynch-mobs.
Despite what many want to believe, the Incoming Government shows no indication that it has any intention of reversing any of these trends, in fact, in some cases it seems inclined to accelerate them. The Party Platform adopted at this Summer's Convention scornfully rejected everything but top-down solutions and openly embraced Woke ideology; that the appointment of nearly two dozen globalist Oligarchs to key positions (positions liberally salted with Christian Nationalists and other fanatics) ought to tell anybody that change is not coming from the top. It needs to come from within ourselves first and foremost.
Great Nixon quote. I've never heard that before, but yes my sentiments exactly, "we deplore the law being taken into the hands of a man."
ReplyDeleteI never really understood the mobs in the Bible, the crowd demanding Barrabas be set free and Jesus be executed. I sure do now! Since the creation of social media some of the darker traits of human nature have become glaringly obvious. Yikes.
Kind of interesting how nobody ever really just blames the perpetrator these days. They are always part of a vast right or left wing conspiracy, almost a stooge or hapless victim who had little choice.
I hope my instincts about this administration hold true and they exceed my expectations, for all our sakes.
The Scamdemic was a great example of Mob Psychology in action too. This is why Anarchism never really would work; most of the Anarchist philosophers think that restraints on the bad side of human nature will naturally liberate all of the good qualities. The instinct of Human Nature when social constraints break down is to flee into the safety of the herd and gather around a strongman.
DeleteThat being said, though, abuses of power are what creates Anarchists. Even slight levels of power seems to turn some people into either petty tyrants or absolute monsters. I recalled the quote from the Roman historian because it sounds so similar to kind of society we live in---and have lived in for a long time.
As for Nixon: those old-school Machine politicians may have done favors for their friends and cut a few corners, but Nixon was nearly impeached for something that is done on regular basis now by both Government and Big Business.