"As this Fourth Turning has reached its midway point, it has become evident
to those awoken to the truth... that a reckoning is at hand, with violence and bloodshed an inevitable
outcome..."
Dancing on the crumbling precipice
The rocks are coming loose just at the edge
Are we laughing? Are we crying?
Are we drowning? Are we dead?
Or is it all a dream?
The rocks are coming loose just at the edge
Are we laughing? Are we crying?
Are we drowning? Are we dead?
Or is it all a dream?
The bombs are getting closer everyday
“That can never happen here” we used to say
Have these wars come to our doorstep?
Has this moment finally come?
Or is it all a dream?
“That can never happen here” we used to say
Have these wars come to our doorstep?
Has this moment finally come?
Or is it all a dream?
Rise Against – The Violence
As Solzhenitsyn noted in his masterpiece,
Gulag Archipelago, “the line dividing good and evil cuts through
the heart of every human being”. The violence in our nature is ingrained in our makeup as
human beings. The Bible details our violent nature in the Garden of Eden, with
the murder of Abel by Cain, his brother.
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Are we not good enough?
Are we not brave enough?
Is the violence in our nature
Just the image of our maker?
Are we not good enough?
Are we not brave enough?
To become something greater
Than the violence in our nature?
Are we not brave enough?
Is the violence in our nature
Just the image of our maker?
Are we not good enough?
Are we not brave enough?
To become something greater
Than the violence in our nature?
Rise Against – The
Violence
The violence in
our inner cities is insignificant when compared to the
violence exported across the globe by the sociopaths at the highest levels of
our government and their co-conspirators in the military industrial complex. It is naïve to think the violence engulfing the world is primarily the
result of the average person’s nature. It’s the result of dangerous men
inflicting their warped worldview, blood lust ambition, thirst for power, and
hubristic arrogance upon the unsuspecting dupes inhabiting their countries.
Sociopaths like Bolton and
Pompeo have risen to positions of immense power, believing
global disorder and war are beneficial to a bankrupt declining empire flailing
about trying to preserve its superpower stature. The Deep State elevates power hungry conscienceless
men into positions where they can promote the agendas of the Deep State with no
remorse or restraint.
The
export of military hardware to Middle East countries that hate us is a prime
example of how a flailing empire will do
anything for a buck, while its corrupt politicians are fellated by the
corporate war industry. Pro-longed warfare has never benefited a nation over the
long-term. The American empire had a
national debt of $5.7 trillion, with the annual budget virtually balanced in
2000 when our leaders began a pro-longed period of non-stop warfare.
We’ve
added $16.3 trillion of debt and are running $1.2 trillion annual deficits as
our out of control war mongering has put the country on a path to destruction. Both feckless
political parties vote for more war spending, more arms sales to Middle Eastern
countries, and continued provocation of nuclear powers – Russia and China. As trillions are wasted on the
violent overthrow of countries who refuse to buckle to American power, our
basic infrastructure crumbles, our government-controlled healthcare system is
an expensive joke, our educational system is a disaster, and the rich get
richer while the poor die fighting for empire.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower, a military man through and through, warned the nation what would
happen if we allowed the unholy alliance of government and the military
industrial complex to dominate our society. We didn’t heed his warning and allowed
our country to be taken over by evil Deep State oligarchs who realized war is
good for their bottom line. They use faux displays of patriotism, create
enemies when there are none, lure easily manipulated young men as cannon
fodder, spread the war machine factories across congressional districts to
ensure votes for more war spending, and compensate the corporate media to
support war and spread propaganda.
Whenever
the government and media are in lockstep regarding an issue, like Russia
throwing our elections or Julian Assange being a traitor, you know it’s a false
narrative designed to misinform the public. War is a
racket designed to enrich the Deep State and their pliable acolytes. It’s only
the average person who suffers.
See Chart:
Trump Discretionary Budget
Requested 2019: $1.19 Trillion
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger
and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is
not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all
in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross
of iron.” ― Dwight D.
Eisenhower
The question Tim McIlrath wants answered
is whether we as a people can end the violence and war. The truth is the only way to put an end to
the never-ending global war is through a violent overthrow of the Deep State
who firmly control the levers of power over our government, financial systems,
corporations, and media. Ironically, violence initiated by
the good law-abiding people of this country against the corrupt, powerful,
rich, deceitful oligarchs is the only chance for reversing the downward moral
spiral we currently face.
Believing
change will be achieved through the ballot box is a fool’s errand. Just observe the
extremists, imbeciles, and craven narcissists we are currently stuck with in
Washington D.C. by falsely believing change can be achieved through the ballot
box. We are being manipulated and managed, just as Edward Bernays taught his
disciples, and how Ray Bradbury described in his dystopian novel about the
future.
Our overlords have been successful in creating generations of non-thinking automatons who have been socially engineered through government
education and TV programming to feel (not think critically) and be easily
manipulated through their techno-gadgets, the boob tube, and now social media.
We are drowning in trivialities, mindless entertainment, gossip, and
propaganda, unable to decipher truth from falsehood. The “truth” is whatever
suits the purposes of those in power. Observe how the Deep State promotes their
war machine through sporting events and the local news.
How many millions of your tax
dollars are used on those flashy recruiting commercials promoting the lie our
military is protecting us by blowing up brown people in distant countries. Hemingway recognized the truth about the war machine, decades ago.
“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for
one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your
dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” ― Ernest Hemingway
As this Fourth Turning has reached its
midway point, it has become evident to those awoken to the truth of a world
run and controlled by a relatively small cadre of powerful men and their paid
off disciples, a reckoning is at hand, with violence and bloodshed an
inevitable outcome. The election of Donald Trump has
functioned as the catalyst, forcing those in the shadows to reveal their true
purpose and nature.
As this Fourth Turning has reached its
midway point, it has become
evident to those awoken to the truth of a world run and controlled by a
relatively small cadre of powerful men and their paid off disciples, a
reckoning is at hand, with violence and bloodshed an inevitable outcome. The
election of Donald Trump has functioned as the catalyst, forcing those in the
shadows to reveal their true purpose and nature.
The Deep State attempted coup of a
sitting president based upon a false Russian narrative has blown up in their
faces, but they will not admit defeat, because to do so would mean loss of
their power, wealth and control. They will be willing to risk world war with
nuclear powers or create the atmosphere for a civil war rather than cease their
sociopathic thirst for controlling the world. With the arrest of Julian Assange
on bogus charges, they push the country ever closer to civil chaos. Truth is
treason in an empire of lies.
Read Assange Message
It
appears the oligarchs are losing control of the narrative and are reacting in a
desperate manner to retain their ill-gotten riches and unconstitutional control
over the levers of government power. We have entered an era of extremism which will surely lead to more
violence. We have elected politicians pushing extreme positions like open
borders, socialism for all, infanticide, going to war with Russia and China,
prosecuting patriots who revealed misdeeds by our government, cheering for
terrorists, and supporting a surveillance state coup of a sitting president.
When
the extreme multiple financial bubbles burst simultaneously and create the
global financial crisis to end all financial crises, the anger and vengeance
likely to be doled out against those identified as being responsible for the
trillions in losses and collapse of debt laden corporations and governments
will be blood curling. With desperate politicians trying to pacify their angry constituents,
they will go to their old standby – start a war and try to appeal to the
patriotism of an ignorant populace who they have successfully manipulated in
the past.
This
is when the “deplorables” are likely to push back. This is when the true enemies will
be identified and those firearms they have been trying to confiscate will be
put to use. Joseph Heller understood generals and politicians supposedly on our
side could be the enemy. The Deep State is our enemy. Until they are violently
defeated, they will continue to treat us as nothing more than cattle and cannon
fodder.
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you
killed, no matter which side he is on.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Steinbeck
thought war was a failure of thinking men; while Hemingway thought all war was
a crime; Voltaire thought war was murder and those declaring war were the
murderers; and Smedley Butler thought war was a racket. They were all right. Rich old men send young poor men to their deaths to feed the coffers
of corporate arms dealers. War is a means for arrogant hubristic men to wield
power in a violent display of egotistical criminality, using innocent citizens
as cannon fodder in their vain endeavor at historical glory.
Tim McIlrath’s final lyrics
capture the essence of human history. We are a
book without an end because human history is cyclical and we start at chapter 1
every eighty years or so. He calls for something new, but he doesn’t grasp that
the existing social order is always overturned during a Fourth Turning and
something new arises. Whether that is good or bad is up to the victors. But, sadly, the elimination of violence is not in the cards
and is likely to be ratcheted up to new highs during the next ten years.
To a predetermined fate are we condemned
Or maybe we’re a book without an end
We’re not stories, we’re not actors
We’re awake and in control
And this is not a dream
Or maybe we’re a book without an end
We’re not stories, we’re not actors
We’re awake and in control
And this is not a dream
So can we break this mold
And set in motion something new
Forgetting what we know
An evolution overdue
Fight the current
Pull the ripcord
Get away!
And set in motion something new
Forgetting what we know
An evolution overdue
Fight the current
Pull the ripcord
Get away!
Rise Against – The Violence
Violence
is in our nature, but good men and women only resort to it when pushed to their
breaking point. That point
is rapidly approaching. The hubris of the ruling class has led them to brazenly
reveal their true purpose in pillaging the wealth of the nation, while
impoverishing the middle class, creating global disorder, promoting civic decay
and ensuring global financial chaos through creating trillions of unpayable
debt. The
attempted coup of Trump, the arrest of Assange, rigging of financial markets
and the continued provocation of Russia have pushed the country to the brink. The
two captured political parties are bereft of courageous patriots, while being
infested with corrupt extremist imbeciles. Sworn enemies, domestically and
internationally, are standing waist deep in gasoline striking matches.
Anyone not realizing the direness of our situation
is either dependent upon the Deep State for their sustenance, a lackey for the
establishment, choosing to be willfully ignorant, or is too dumbed down and
distracted by their techno-gadgets to care. The war has begun and the storm gathers, but nobody knew when the
conflagration would erupt. The Deep State is already at war with average
Americans, but they haven’t acknowledged that fact. When they do, things will
get interesting. Get ready.
“The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was
lowering and nobody knew it.” ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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