When the Absurd Becomes the Expected
Like the crew of the Serenity, we have landed on a planet where complacency is death.
I try not to insult the intelligence of the folks who read my posts by stating the obvious.
Offering an analysis of anything obvious is insulting to any thinking person, you do not need me to tell you things you already know.
The past few weeks have been so obvious as to defy writing about them.
That’s why I have been quiet around the digital water cooler. You have to be an ideologue, a pathological liar or a Democrat (pardon me for repeating myself) to deny what is right before your eyes.
Honestly, is there anything coming from the left that really surprises you?
Not me – for me, they have made the absurd the expected.
From the normalization of pedophilia, the relativist positions that everything is racist, Modern Monetary Theory, inflation is a great thing for everyone, and Omicron justifies anything they want to do, there is literally nothing that surprises me now.
If they said they wanted to pass a law to prohibit the wearing of bathrobes on the second Tuesday of every month because bathrobes are racist and it makes us more sensitive to black people who don’t have bathrobes, I would be like “Hmmm. Not surprising at all.”
But the larger question is this: what becomes of a society and culture that has been shocked to the point nothing is shocking?
That is far less obvious.
Several years ago, my Facebook friend Emmie Lou Tucker linked to the story about a Georgetown student who was mugged but couldn’t “condemn his assailants because to do so from his ‘perch of privilege’ would be unfair”, that is the kind of insanity I have come to expect.
I must admit I’m a bit of a Sci-Fi geek. I’m also a big fan of a show on Fox that lasted a total of one season – “Firefly” – starring the current male lead of ABC’s “The Rookie” – Nathan Fillion, as Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
In the 2005, the crew was reunited for a movie. In “Serenity”, the crew journeys to the terraformed planet Miranda where the population has been eradicated. In a large debris field around the planet, they are attacked by a crazed, animalistic group of creatures called Reavers. Formerly human, these creatures were so vile that the government could not defeat them and chose just to deny their existence.
After they reach the surface of the planet, they are guided by a distress beacon to a crashed vessel. On the journey to it, they wander through a city filled with desiccated corpses, most of which were still at their desks, at tables at restaurants and laid out on the streets as if they dropped in their tracks. Once at the crashed ship, they play a recorded message from the captain that reveals both the cause of the extinction of the population and the origin of the Reavers.
It seems that the Alliance, the fascistic, ruling government of the United Alliance of Planets, had grown tired of having to deal with violence and revolts on the outer settlements and had added a drug called Pax to the atmosphere processors on Miranda to pacify the population. The Alliance discovered that the Pax was effective with 99.9% of people but the effects of Pax were twofold. For some, it caused them to stop caring about anything and simply waited to die; however, the remainder of the population had the opposite reaction. They became highly aggressive, committing unspeakable acts including cannibalism, rape and self-mutilation. These creatures were known as the Reavers.
It would seem that in the persona of the Georgetown milquetoast student and the BLM/ANTIFA rioters/looters we saw in 2020, we have our real-life version of a majority populace that has been “Paxed” and the Reavers. It occurs to me that once, honor would have been found in defeating your enemy, becoming a hero. Today, honor is being a self-loathing victim. Somehow this justifies weakness. This is how civilizations are lost.
In my mind, progressivism, postmodernism, and cultural Marxism are the contemporary version of the mythical Alliance’s G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate (Pax). The Georgetown student is a model of most of the population of Miranda, fooled into complacency, willing to excuse anything and simply not caring enough about his own survival to do anything to assure it.
Progressives don’t need a drug, they are doing it with language – creating meaningless terms and using academia to imbue them with a false gravitas, a meaning without meaning.
I believe that these memes that we hear that range from “institutional racism” to “white privilege” to “microaggression” are essentially solutions looking for a problem. The fact is that the contemporary word “racism” is an invention, much as the term “Islamophobia” was purposefully invented by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, based in Northern Virginia. Neither of these terms existed ex nihilo, progressives in government and society, our version of the Alliance, created them (or altered their meaning) for a very specific purpose.
That purpose was to “Pax” a majority of the people into self-loathing, introspective, navel-gazing pacification by instilling a fear of speaking out, even to confirm even the most simple and obvious truths. They do so while denying the existence of the ANTIFA/BLM Reavers, even as these creatures are given free rein to rape and pillage.
I don’t know if the movie “Serenity” qualifies as art, but life is sure imitating it.
The left knows, we know, and they know we know their policies and programs are failures, only propped up by lies, ignorance and truckloads of borrowed money.
But they simply do not care.
Last week, Tucker Carlson did a report on inflation. In that report he put forward obvious examples of inflation in the 20-100+ percent price increases in common goods and services.
The official state line is that inflation is around 7%.
Their number one goal is their own defense, not the protection of the American people.
That is obvious.
What is not obvious is that Republicans, running in an environment that is perhaps the friendliest to them since 1980 (or maybe 2010), will win and when they do, will actually follow through on an agenda to recover our economic and individual liberty.
The hardest things for a politician to do are 1) undoing something that has already been done (they want to tweak things - making them worse) and 2) nothing, which is exactly what needs to be done.
That is also obvious.