Imminent Eschatological Perturbances

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-- William Butler Yeats

This was written in the aftermath of a war that was supposed to end all wars. That war, the false boom and the three-decade depression which followed--which in itself contained an epic and truly global conflagration--were all brought about by leftist Bolshevic communism in the east, a rightist national socialist Europe, and progressive utopianism in America.

Europe is about to fall into chaos yet again. The neo-nazi cancer is metastasizing in Germany, and the Red Bear has a giant Dragon as a sparring partner in the fight for global dominance against an America that is seen as shrivelling--cowering in progressive shame over the sins of individual liberty and a capitalist prosperity that has made her poorest the envy of the world.

Europe is begging Greece to abandon government-run healthcare and rampant deficit spending while Washington DC continues to churn out bailout after bailout after bailout. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, a framework for "fundamental transformation" is being built--merely for emergency purposes, of course. You know, just in case. But remember, we don't have to worry anymore because the recession is behind us now.

Back to normal, everybody. Go about your business, go about your fun. Just try not to be racist or argumentative. We are in a post-debate era.

Isn't that nice?

Now, if only we can find our Archduke Ferdinand before it's too late...

If only we can stand up....

Be ready.

No Fate

"The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves." At least that's what John Connor was taught...in a fictional story. Perhaps, however, the lesson still applies today. For my sanity's sake, I hope so.

Despair has largely been the end result of my thoughts concerning current events, politics, and the state of my nation these days, if I can call it that anymore. At any rate, to be quick about it, I have been depriving myself of an outlet for these feelings, and that in itself may have been what has kept me down. Something a little less fictional has been said that a free republic cannot stand without debate. If this is true, then perhaps I have been shackling myself needlessly.

This may also be seen as something of a sin, what's more. Galatians 5:1 is a command, is it not? "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." This has passage has been growing on me for the last five to seven years, and I have seen it exemplified most astonishingly in friends I had least expected.

Why despair if there is no fate but what we ourselves make? My despair is in large part a product of the notion that a snowball has been rolled onto a slipperly slope a hundred years or so ago, and its velocity seems to have taken on an apparent inevitability and an inescabale totalitarian doom awaits us even here in America. I don't want that. I want to believe that it does not have to be that way.

To conclude, what I want to do here is to free my mind. Maybe my freedom here will serve to free others as well. I don't know. But I hope you will join me again for more freedom.