American Yin-Yang, The "State of The Union" And The Shape of Things To Come
Dystopia: It can't happen here?
In his 1935 dystopian political novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Windrip is portrayed as a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, subsequent to fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms. Simultaneously, Windrop promotes a return to patriotism and “traditional" values.
After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force. It was MAGA (Make America Great Again), before MAGA. The novel is classified as “political fiction.”
Heh-heh.
On January 6, 2021, many were shocked at what took place in Washington D.C. Some called it a rebellion. Some called it an insurrection. Some called it a riot. However one chooses to characterize it, it was chaos. It was what it was, because it is what it is and it is what it has always been. I trust I needn’t remind anyone reading this article of the origins of the United States.
It was exactly how the United States began. In a more modern and mildly tangential aspect, it was life imitating art. Almost half a century before Lewis’s novel, in 1889, Oscar Wilde asserted that “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
Yin
Yin-yang, is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing opposite but interconnected, mutually perpetuating forces.
Tonight, the 46th president of the United States will deliver what is known as the “State of the Union” address. It is well known that the United States consists of 50 states. But it is unknown that there are two others: the State of Yin, and the State of Yang.
Tonight, the president will use the words fascist and fascism, multiple times. He will use the words democracy and threat, multiple times. He will reference MAGA. He will use the same words that his projected opponent will use, just in a different context. Yet, in the end, he will say that “the state of our union is strong.” There is no doubt he will do so and when he does, given the facts on the ground, he will confirm his obvious cognitive decline.
The president will not mention an alleged conversation between Germany's “high-ranking officers” purported to have occurred on Feb. 19, with the discussion centered on blowing up the Crimean Bridge with long-range Taurus missiles, anymore than the media has. The president will not mention the fact that French president Emmanuel Macron has urged Ukraine’s allies not to be “cowards,” suggesting the deployment of western troops in supporting its fight against the Russian invasion that same week, anymore than the media has.
The president will not mention China’s recent pronouncement regarding Taiwan the same week of the Macron comments and alleged German plans for sabotage. China has announced it would increase its military budget by 7.2 per cent, marking the biggest jump in five years amid worsening ties with its sycophant western neighbors. Most ominously, Beijing has jettisoned any official policy of a “peaceful reunification.”
The president will not mention Yemen (home of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster), the Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz or Palestine. And, yes, I said Palestine and I meant Palestine. The dreaded Pee word, from your resident In word. He will, instead use the words Israel, Hamas and Gaza, several times.
The president will not announce that the U.S. military capacity does not match its saber-rattling rhetoric. The president will not announce that the U.S. military is in a freefall in terms of recruitment and is very close to a draft. The United States can not militarily engage China, Russia and attend to its problem child, Israel, in the so-called Middle East. It cannot begin to engage on two fronts, let alone three. It is physically impossible.
Yang And The Shape of Things To Come
Domestically, the president will not mention his failure to enact “police reform".” An issue that he ran on in the heat of the George Floyd murder, with which he seduced Black People in the United States and garnered him many of their votes (assuming their votes mattered, suckers). The president will not mention that, ironically, under his presidency, police killings have increased. You just haven’t heard about them. Ask yourself why, should you possess such intellectual honesty.
A week ago, the same week of the geopolitical announcements and pronouncements referenced supra, I had occasion to visit a local mall. Subsequent to conducting my business and as I pulled out of the parking lot, I noticed an old motor home that had been “whitewashed” with what appeared to be house paint or spray paint. Towards the rear of the vehicle, in very large lettering, there were graffiti-like statements written with a black marker. The statements read; “fuck Biden,” fuck Harris,” “Trump was robbed,” “build that wall!” This is in Southern California.
I ended up behind the aforementioned rolling monstrosity and as the vehicle was about to exit the parking lot and enter the street, it seemed to intentionally swerve to hit a man on a skateboard. The man, immediately, picked up huge chunks of rock/concrete and started to throw them at the vehicle; hitting it several times. The vehicle stopped. The passenger door opened, a man got out and confronted the man that was almost hit that threw the bricks/rocks.
Within seconds the bloodletting began. I spent the entire evening wondering how many thousands of times a day similar scenes are playing out in the United States. Fully aware that they will only intensify in the days to come.
It can’t happen here? It already has, baby. Right before your lying eyes. Because this is where it began. Everything ends as it began, full circle. And the circle shall remain unbroken.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Cheery thoughts for a new week!
I was having so much fun lying to myself too! Damn, what a Debbie Downer!
Just quit as Democratic precinct chair. Was betrayed by two others on me "team" who dumped all the work onto me and managed to happily describe their hollow visions and plans while I did all the work. Pulled the rug out from under them.
This has happened my entire life--work, volunteer work, neighbors, friends, family. Phony, traitorous mofos. Beginning to think that 85% of the American population are malignant narcissists and 15% are sane, the opposite of the statistic cited by most psychologists.
And referring back to a previous conversation regarding female abuse versus male abuse: Women are black belts in the passive aggressive.
And back to the OJ Simpson trial: A lot of women were jealous of Nichole Brown, even DEAD because she was beautiful! A lot of women love it when beautiful women are murdered.
I ended friendships over that trial for all reasons. Jesus Christ.
Just read NYT article in which Meghan Markle discusses the shear inhumanity of social media comments she has endured--from other women. Beautiful women take a lot of shit from other women: a LOT of shit. AND they take a lot of shit from men--including violence. No-win. Better to be born dowdy and mean and stupid, nobody fucks with you.
It is normal for the life of a human settlement to come to an end in fire and rubble, with mamas holding the shreds of their babies and wailing as they rock.
This time, the rubble will be radioactive for thousands of years. If anything survives that long in the bunkers of the rich, it will be trans-human, alright.