According to the Smartest Administration in History, yesterday we were supposed to have seen the Iranian People spontaneously rise up, seize control of their Government, and beg American Oligarchs to make their nation America's 51st State. Needless to say, that didn't happen. Instead, most notably in Bahrain and Kuwait, the popular uprisings were aimed at their puppet-regimes and the US bases there. In Bahrain, State Security Forces backed by Western 'private security firms' attacked protesters with gas and clubs as an Iranian missile barrage crashed down on the US Naval Base.
The Pentagon, of course, spoon-feeding official narratives to the Corporate Media, informed us that there were no reports of casualties or significant damage despite video images of the base on fire. In Kuwait, despite preliminary claims on the ground that Iran had shot down seven US fighters, the Pentagon insisted that only three had fallen, and that those due to friendly fire. This is all coming from an Administration which boasts of its transparency; its blatant censorship and control of Media and lack of oversight to the contrary notwithstanding.
Pete Hegseth called a Press Conference to dish out the Party Line to the paid 'influencers' now comprising the Pentagon Press Pool. Hegseth admitted to about a half-dozen Americans dead. The Uniparty really is becoming an embarrassment, at least to thinking people. Five years ago, they told us that more Americans died from a flu epidemic than in all US wars combined; now they tell us that nobody is dying under hypersonic missile barrages. Then again, though, they are selling these stories to people who aren't thinking very deeply.
Hegseth, doing his best impression of Hitler in 1945 ordering imaginary Army units to stop the Soviets from shelling the Fueherbunker, went off in a tirade before his admiring audience. “Two days ago, under the direction and direct orders of President Donald J. Trump, the Department of War launched Operation Epic Fury, the most-lethal, most-complex and most-precise aerial operation in history!” he roared. "There is no line that the US military will not cross! The war will be fought, all on our terms, with maximum authority! No stupid rules of engagement! No nation-building quagmire! No democracy-building exercise! No politically correct wars! We fight to win!”
Hegseth made these stunning pronouncements, it should be recalled, a little over a week after hosting cult-leader Doug Wilson at the Pentagon (whose cult Hegseth believes in). It seems rather interesting that Wilson made especially cryptic reference during his speech to a "Black Swan Revival," and---if the following clip is true, we may have some cause for concern here.
Back when our site first started, we made a foundational point that the two greatest threats to Civilization were the rise of religious cults and Western Neo-Liberalism. Ten years ago, the main threats were from ISIS and the Obama Administration. The Reactionaries of today, have exchanged places and the threats to Civilization are wrapped in pseudo-Christianity and Neo-Conservatism.
Regarding these apocalyptic hopes expressed by the Christian version of the Jihadists, a Dead White Male whom nobody studies anymore made this keen observation during a time not too unlike our current situation: "Spiritual ends must only be reached in a spiritual way. It may be added that, whenever men lose from sight how the end of the world is a moral and spiritual end, whenever they can conceive it as merely a material end, the method of reaching it becomes as material as the ends which were sought...when men conceive the purpose of the Universe to be the equitable distribution of material good, they will conceive it possible and legitimate to bring in the Millennium by force."
It may be seen from that statement that the postmodern 'Alpha Christianity' has represented by its various doctrines like Christian Nationalism, is really a Reactionary movement. The same author notes that atheistic Communism is also apocalyptic in its premises. This is why Cults combined with Neo-Liberal and Neo-Reactionary politics are so dangerous to Civilization. Their ends are material, specifically the pursuit of power. The same thinker who penned the above quote noted this:
"Christian men have come to believe that there are some things that even the Almighty cannot do, because His ends are moral and spiritual. In particular, He cannot exact a compelled obedience. If men are to be His servants in any real sense, they must be willing in the day of His Power. To make them such willing servants, more is needed than the unbaring of His arm. Men must be willing to welcome the new order, when it emerges through the fiat of the Almighty, and to make them willing, there is needed, not only the power but the patience of God."
If we premise that God can do no evil and that therefore He cannot exact a compelled obedience, then what can we say when Man attempts to do so? The ancient pagan religions in the West held that the greatest sin was hubris, attempting to usurp the prerogatives of the Gods. The monotheistic religions which have succeeded them express the same concept in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought, usually translated into English as the sin of pride.
In the Old Testament, the prophet Samuel warned the Ancient Israelites that the tendency towards hubris in their Government would be one of the consequences of their sin in asking for a king to rule over them. The Hebrews were one of the last cultures to institute a monarchy and Samuel doubtless had in mind the examples of the other countries around Israel. Paganism had degenerated even by his time to that point. The pagan cultures started out much like Israel, they were ruled over by men believed to have a Divine spirit (and some said by Divine birth) because of their exceptional wisdom or heroic deeds. After monarchies became institutionalized, it wasn't long before these Kings and Pharaohs began deifying themselves. The only reason that this didn't happen among the Jews was because their culture had an equally strong priesthood, but---as the Old Testament histories show---the closer that priesthood aligned with the Monarchy it often exhibited hubris not far removed from that of the self-styled god-men of the surrounding nations. If we want to draw Biblical parallels, as Christians today are fond of doing, it would seem that we're much closer to what Israel was before the Exile than we are to the New Jerusalem described in Revelation.
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