One vision I had the other day was imagining I was at the Constitutional Convention, and literally the only thing I ever did of any note in my entire lifetime was preventing an argument from escalating, say between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, in some moment unknown to history. Maybe all I did was bring in some food at some key moment when both were tired and testy, and if I had not, they would have blown up at each other, factions would have taken up each side, and the whole thing exploded, resulting in a failure of America to be birthed.
Now, as it exists today, America is an extraordinarily powerful force both for good and evil. What the eventual meaning will prove to be of America having been created remains to be seen. But I think much of history is like this, of the “for want of a nail” variety.
In my own way–which is the only way I have–all my blogging and other “informational” activities are oriented around not being found deficient when some such moment comes along. I will have done what I could.
If everyone does this, things work. If no one does this, things fall apart. The essence of the authoritarian impulse is suppressing such initiative, of moving from self organizing, organic systems to what we may as well call machines, which are indifferent, lacking in true complexity and deep order, and which work to grind people to mush.
Google: all you have done, in hiring Ray Kurzweil and adopting far-left politics, is literalize this truth.
As I have pointed out before, in hypnotic language, don’t be evil is heard as Do Be Evil. Palling around with someone who wants to destroy everything good our nation has created certainly qualifies.
Or do you count it a victory that unemployment in the black communities has escalated enormously under the Administration of someone who was hired to help blacks? 38% black teen unemployment overall, 92% in Chicago? Do you count it a victory that this truth has been suppressed? You cannot both believe what you do, and demand from yourself intellectual coherence. The two are incompatible.
If you are a decent human being, you want good things for everyone. Only sick people are more preoccupied with punishment that lifting people up.
But how does the lyric go? “Tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no RICH no more.”
It always has been and always will be much easier to destroy things than to create them, at least superficially. But to commit oneself to destruction one must first anesthetize some part of ones self that is needed, and which will sooner or later have to be revived.
One can only find horror in horror. Redemption is walking out of that room, through an open door.