So this week kicks off with Corporate Media sensationalism and Government-staged photo-ops as the Administration desperately tries to pretend that they're still relevant in European Affairs. We're speaking of course of what the Media calls Peace Negotiations to end the Ukraine Conflict. The US Deep State caused the catastrophe in Ukraine to begin with; they've funded it, they've prolonged it, and anybody who isn't wholly infatuated with the New Right understands that peace or normalizing relations with Russia are the last things any of these poseurs care about. This Administration is filled from one end to the other with anti-Russia 'hawks;' but both they and their bosses on Wall Street know that they'll never defeat Russia and that sustaining Ukraine is a lost cause as long as the war is going on.
The whole purpose of these theatrics essentially is to find a way to surrender while making it look like a victory. If they were serious about stopping the conflict, they could have done so by withdrawing support for the Kiev Regime. But too many Globalist Interests---among them many members of the Republican hierarchy itself---who have deep financial interests in salvaging what they can. Of course, too, for public consumption, our Manly Alpha Leaders can't appear weak. To that end, we have this Statement from the White House:
This kind of thing hardly needs a comment, other than to mention that if Vox Day had been 'elected' President, his messages would have sounded about like that. Many foreign readers may not get the idea here: but this kind of blame-shifting, self-aggrandizement, and stupid peacocking is fairly typical of how anyone in a position of authority in the US behaves. The further up the power-chain one gets, the worse it is. Naturally, too, they have a corresponding contempt for anyone under their authority. Unlike our Founding Fathers, however, Postmodern Americans swoon over people in positions of power; and the more arrogant and overbearing they are, the more that they are admired for it.
When the Roman People gave up their Republic and put their Government under the hand of a Caesar, an historian of the period described what happened afterward during the first century of Imperial Rule: "They saw a single lawless will, unchecked by constitutional restraints or ordinary human feeling making sport of the lives and fortunes of men. They saw 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."
I like that quote because it also describes so succinctly the situation we Americans find ourselves in today. The power isn't concentrated in a Caesar (for now), but just about every institution in the United States: Government Agencies, Corporations, Schools, the Legal System, the Financial Cartels, the Media---even not a few churches---are run about like that.
Many not familiar with American Culture first-hand wonder why we so passively accept the kind of leadership we do. This is the reason why. Anyone who displays talent or ability---or has the manhood to assert his rights against such a System--- ends up like the truly noble among the Romans described above did.
As Cicero pointed out back then, the people who willingly gave up their freedoms are responsible for the despotism that they ended up getting. Here in the US, we have steadily done the same thing. Just like Caesar didn't emerge in a vacuum, but found a populace "rejoicing in their loss of freedom and dancing in his path with triumphal processions" who would make his ambitions possible. We, in America, have a population primed to bow to any strongman and to submit to his arbitrary will.
With Off-Year Elections coming up, it's interesting to note that the Democrats seem to be following the same approach. An analysis of their gubernatorial candidates shows that, just as the Republicans outdid the Democrats in callousness and arrogance in 2024, their so-called Opposition is trying to push that envelope even further. The Democrat candidate for New Jersey Governor was quoted as saying: “Ruthless competence is something we’re all very attracted to, and looking at ways in which we can be more effective, deliver better for people in our states, is also something that I think we’re constantly striving for.” Elon Musk couldn't have said it better himself.
As we've said before, our problems are not going to be solved by installing this or that strongman and accepting his top-down solutions. Our problem as a Culture is spiritual, not political. Our Declaration of Independence opens with the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.” But today, we seem to believe that the Powerful are God's Chosen, and that Rights are no more than whatever privileges or favors they deign to grant us. As long as we as a Culture covet personal power over merit, we'll get more of the same.
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