Without belaboring the analogy, which is obvious enough–one guy facing a large number of enemies seeking to destroy him, abandoned by most of those who should be his allies–I will remind you of the church scene, and the guys who said in effect “I’d love to help you, man, but I just can’t.”
We need to remember that Joe Biden has almost certainly taken, indirectly, something on the order of billions of dollars in bribes from China, and WE KNOW THIS. And his guy–for State, I think it is–is already saying “hey, these guys are our PALS”.
His son deserves to be in jail not just for the bribes, but for being a pedophile who kept images on his laptop, no doubt for use in masturbation. We have those images. The FBI had them for nearly a year and did nothing, and even now the Delaware State police have them. Do you expect a prosecution for a really open and shut crime? I don’t. I expect crickets. If Biden gets in office, if and when they announce they are dropping the investigation–it will probably just never be mentioned again–the press will ignore it. And if they don’t ignore it, social media will censor it.
Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of using weird sex to blackmail many if not most of the most powerful men and women in America, was murdered, while in a maximum security prison, where he should have been on suicide watch. The guards were bribed to not be there, and the cameras were disabled from inside. The murderers got in, got it done, got out, and there has been no real investigation. In a high profile case, watched by the world, where many observers were saying “he is going to be murdered”, he was murdered, and they got away with it, 100%. Scot free.
Here is what people need to understand: a variety of game changing technologies are coming on line. AI is, I am very sure, coming very close to passing the Turing test. It is creating art, and writing songs and novels.
Robots are advancing quickly. Combined with effective AI, even with regards to physical conflict, it is rapidly becoming the case that a VERY small number of people with access to this technology could easily overpower in purely physical, military terms, 200 million people with guns.
We can assume that if the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion is the Kraken, that it will be broken apart by Biden, and cast to the four winds. Anyone helping Trump will find themselves watching empty missile silos somewhere in Montana, if they can’t find a way to prosecute and jail them outright.
Now is the time for a stand, of whatever sort may be possible. The odds are overwhelming. No statistician would bet on success. But the odds are not zero. And the longer it takes to begin reigning in the lawlessness, the closer they approach zero.
Some time ago I wrote a post called Perfection? Reading it now, I would write it differently now. I have grown since then.
But O’Brien, in 1984, said that the future was an infinity of a boot on the human face. He said this in a spirit of sadism. Even then, though, O’Brien was tired. Even then, he himself wanted to die too. (and in actual fact Richard Burton himself died of a heart attack shortly after completing the film, at the relatively young age of 58). Such a system would not last forever. Perhaps hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years. But it is contrary to everything which makes human beings want to live. It is unnatural. It lacks God, and God is the glue of life itself. Smith felt this for a long time, until some structure in his brain gave out under the most extreme duress possible and imaginable.
We have all the knowledge we need to build something beautiful and lasting on this planet. Without getting into my ideas on infinity–I have a large post I will make at some point that will blow your mind a bit, and which I am still digesting emotionally myself–we could build a happy, honestly egalitarian society that would endure hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, perhaps here, perhaps spread out over the cosmos.
We know, now, that prosperity can be generalized in the United States. There is every reason to think this can be done around the world. I GET that the planet does not have infinite resources, but it is also obvious to me that–given spiritually rich, emotionally nourishing culture–we don’t need that much.
It may be that everything we have–all our technology–had already been built 10,000 years ago, and they decided instead to build stone buildings that lasted essentially forever instead, and live the lives of simple farmers. Most people lived in perishable huts, that have perished.
The task has never really been to make life easier, but to make it more MEANINGFUL. There are millions of Africans, today, who are happier with nearly nothing, by American standards, than most of us are. They have honest friends. They dance together in their villages. They have their families right there with them. They do not work too hard, or too little. They sing. They see the stars at night.
Give people meaning, and the economics will work out.
The problem is that our aspiring overlords themselves lack meaning, so they cannot see how this would be possible. Their meaning consists in the manic need to find people to “save”, who they in general push down with one hand while pulling them up with the other. The process cannot be completed, because otherwise they would lose their shallow and tenuous raison d’etre.
No: our problems have solutions. All we need are sane people willing to do the obvious, common sense things, and let us save ourselves. There is ample time.
One last note: I am of course trying to figure out how to deal emotionally with all possible eventualities. Hope is a fine thing, but it is dashed on the rocks of life continually. Every Main Street, especially now, is littered with ship wrecks.
What difference is there between a Buddhist who, in seeking their Buddha Nature, tries to avoid both desire and repulsion, and to cling to his “real” nature, which is calm and peaceful; and a devout Christian, who prays daily, “Lord, let me seek thy will in all things, and accept it in all things, and in all things give thanks and praise, happiness, and joy and peace”?
In my view, both are spiritual solutions which are very similar to the same problem, which is the inherent difficulty in managing emotional states in a world where death and pain stalk us daily, even in the best of times.
You have to let go. You have to stop bracing for impact. And when you do this, you find things floating down the river continually which buoy you, which make you feel good, which allow you to feel good, which make life itself feel good, which make the company of other humans pleasant, which fill you with the Four Greats, joy, tranquility, compassion and love.
I have many miles to go in my journey. I cannot say that more difficulty would not make my work easier, or my character better. I don’t honestly know what I need. I am blind, in most important respects. But I have hope, not so much in the world–although there is definitely hope even now that we can right this ship before it founders–but in my own ability to continue to grow and adapt to whatever happens to me.