Dear readers, is it just me or does 2016 already feel like a long time ago? I don’t know about you, but I miss the days when Woke Democrat mobs only came after people who posted nationalist memes and ethnic humor on Twitter. Today, you can be cancelled for almost anything – or at least the attempt can be made by nominal Republicans angry that a pizza chain dared to thank a random person on Twitter in 2012. As long as, that is, said random person became an official in the Trump administration 8 years later.
Domino’s Pizza probably should employ more clairvoyant Woke employees.
The Great Awokening means you should be able to accurately predict mob opinion. Failure means Cancellation.
As statues come down across the country – to include Thomas Jefferson – well, it seems like we’ve entered an orgy of monumental destruction. Strippers start twerking and masturbating in public as some kind of protest. And we continue to watch rioters burn down fast food restaurants because, naturally, it is important to target Wendy’s and McDonald’s when discussing police brutality. And while race may be at the center of this issue, it is by no means black and white. Watch as a black man waving an American flag is attacked and his flag destroyed by Antifas chanting that America is a colonialist, fascist state. Said antifas – a good many white – chant that he’s a race traitor, of course.
Cancel culture now includes those who do not directly support #BlackLivesMatter, even if they agree that George Floyd’s death was wrong and police reform is urgently needed. If you don’t believe in the core principles of Social Justice – the current central premise of its most prominent faction being, of course, that if you are white you are guilty – then it is time for you to be cancelled.
The Great Awokening doesn’t care about the cause, only your virtue-signaled submission.
There are so many more incidents I’ve seen lately – and I’m sure my readers have seen still more. This includes people in my personal life, many of which have stated that if you are not protesting with BlackLivesMatter, then you’re a Fascist, and you need to be cancelled. Or, perhaps, you should be reeducated in camps, as Bill Palmer explains:
If you’re right-of-center, well, you should clean toilets or something, or be sent to reeducation camp for ‘rehabilitation’. These views are mainstream on the political Left. Or at least they are among mainstream Leftists I know in my personal life, and see on social media. Leftists who still want to have a peaceful dialogue with Rightists appear to be an endangered species.
The other day, I saw a tweet from a group of armed Texans ensuring the Alamo was protected. A great many Rightists praised them, and while I agree that it was a good thing, I disagree that this means anything in the long run. Eventually Texas will go Leftist. In a decade. Two, maybe. I don’t have a good handle on any kind of timeline, but it will. And then the Antifas will burn it down. Do you think activists have forgotten that Texas was a slave-owning society that took land from Mexico? That’s how they’re going to see it.
You might save the Alamo today. You won’t tomorrow. They will come, one day.
The Great Awokening holds nothing off limits.
Some folks agreed with Confederate statues coming down because some were erected by legitimate segregationists for political purposes. That, and the Civil War meant that Southern leaders and military men were, in effect, traitors. That second one is a position I generally disagree with – I think that, despite the bad motivations behind Southern secession, there’s a lot more nuance to men like Lee, who were in a position to either betray their home state, or the Federal government. But whatever. I get the arguments.
I also told everyone that the mob would not stop with the Confederates. Columbus statues are coming down. Thomas Jefferson too. You may say “well, Columbus did a lot of terrible things.” Sure. You may say “Thomas Jefferson carried on illicit relationships with his slaves.” Also true! Welcome to the wide world of humans are imperfect jerks. Are we honoring them for the bad things they did, or the good things?
Even if you agree with those… what about George Washington, who slowly came to despise slavery, and provided for the freedom of his slaves? What about the statues of prominent abolitionists that have been vandalized because they were white? What about Winston Churchill’s statue in Britain, that was covered with graffiti? Did they deserve it? Well, I’m sure they’ve all done something bad. And in Churchill’s case, fighting actual, real-life Nazis is not worth setting aside his mistakes. You cannot be honored unless you are perfect, it seems.
Are we making the argument that we should have no monuments of people, because the woke crowd will find something wrong or unwoke with every one of them?
The Great Awokening tolerates no monuments to the past.
Watching media talking heads and prominent Democrats (and Quisling-like Republicans like Rick Wilson) celebrating the protests and excusing its spread of COVID-19 while simultaneously condemning Trump rallies for spreading COVID-19 is a hilarious exercise in doublethink. It reminds me of the constant back-and-forth reporting about the utility of wearing a mask. If you wore a mask, you were depriving doctors of them, who of course needed them – even though they didn’t work – and, of course, it wouldn’t work for you. Then all of a sudden if you went anywhere without wearing a mask, you clearly wanted old people to die.
As Zero HP Lovecraft said on Twitter: “The irony of millions of people chanting ‘I can’t breathe’ as they huddle together and expectorate a respiratory virus at each other is a gift from Gnon.”
The Great Awokening has no central truths. Everything is fluid.
If someone with a cell phone captures you on video during a heated political argument, prepare to lose your business… then watch as your spouse is also fired from his job. Say nothing and submit, and hope the Wokists pass over your home on their way to more prominent targets. Woke Capitalism means that almost every major company (except, paradoxically, Domino’s Pizza?) will fire you if the mob asks them to. And you cannot predict with decent accuracy what might trigger that mob, or cause them to notice you. Even the insufficiently-Leftist J.K. Rowling stands at the edge of the Woke precipice. If you’re black, your skin color does not protect you from the mob. If you’re a Leftist, your previous utility to the cause does not protect you. The mob has no rules, except that it demands submission to its tribe.
The Great Awokening might as well call itself Submission. Wait… isn’t there already a religion that calls itself that?
My friends, we are witnessing in real-time the birth of a new religion, and I feel rather like the Symmachi, or Julian the Apostate as Christianity spread like a great wave across the Mediterranean Sea, at last conquering the Roman Empire that, once upon a time, tried so hard to suppress it. Only where Christianity offered forgiveness and eternal life, Wokism brings only eternal guilt and damnation. Only temporary respite may ever be gained from it. Today’s loyal Antifa soldier will be tomorrow’s mob target.
Am I overstating my position? No, I don’t think so. Watch as the Woke participate in the washing of the feet. Watch as they chain themselves together to apologize for things they have never done. And notice, still, that their position at the bottom of the progressive stack – as the eternally damned – is never changed. You may submit, and gain temporary respite from the mob. But sooner or later, racist, you will be judged guilty again. You are privileged. All white people are racist. All men are sexist. All cisgenders are transphobes, and so on. The SocJus claim is that systemic and unconscious bias can never be fully eradicated. By being Woke, you become aware of your sin, but you are never forgiven for it, nor is there any redemption from it.
This unique twist on Original Sin – without the possibility of salvation – marks this belief system as something new, a sort of Post-Christian heresy, shorn of God, torn from the divine – a not-religion that somehow fulfills the same emotional purpose of a religion. A faith that requires no faith, only constant self-loathing. This not-faith gains new adherents by twisting out-of-context Bible quotes and spouting them at people who can summon no moral defense that does not awaken the wrath of the mob. “God is love!” Yeah, God is also the guy who thought the Canaanites sacrificing children to Moloch made them worthy of destruction at the hands of the Israelites.
Again, Zero HP Lovecraft captures it succinctly: “As with any religion, the faith with no name has its different theological schools, which even fight with each other. The major schools are queerism, feminism, and blackism, the latter of which is an ecumenism in which white people worship black people.”
In the current political climate, blackism is the leading denomination of Wokism.
In the Great Awokening, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism has finally found a new god to replace the one they hate so much: a Lovecraftian horror created from the collective virtue signalling of the mob.
In the Great Awokening, Trump is the equivalent of Lucifer. Because, as Satanists heading to the Antifa rallies have explained: Lucifer was the good guy of that particular story. Clearly. He was fighting against the oppressive colonialism of God. But in any case, the Orange Man is now the stand-in, the eternal enemy. Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein given real flesh. Someday, they shall distribute the crimethink, the golden book of Trump, containing within it every heresy, every blasphemy uttered by the ancient politician. Itself the only monument to the old world permitted by the Woke.
The ghost of Rick Wilson will smile with pride.
I have taken comfort over the last few years with a verse from the old Testament, commanding us not to despair..
1 Kings 19:18
“Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”
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Random and unorganized commentary from yours truly (please be patient:)
Progressivism has become a neo-maoist religious cult. The millenials, and especially the 20-something ones, are the American Maoist Red Guard.Their cancel culture, along with the threats, intimidation, physical violence, destruction and attempts to erase the past and its symbols throughout current American culture will continue until the Red Guard is either triumphant or suppressed. That suppression will require violence, and a lot of it.
Robespierre’s “Terror” and its wave of executions lasted only a bit over 1 year – late spring 1793 to mid summer 1794, roughly. Note that Robespierre was in a position of power in the government, and he still couldn’t protect himself or his followers after a national outcry against his purges of people with ‘wrongthink.’ Lenin’s Red Terror lasted longer and was much bloodier – a bit over 4 years and at least 10x more victims – but was implemented by a Bolshevik political apparatus with its own military arm that had already established itself as defacto leaders of Russia and had the upper hand in the Civil War during this entire period.
The dhimmicrats, antifa and BLM are all in weaker positions than either Lenin or Robespierre. They are also making themselves hated nationwide, across all creeds, colors, ethnicities and beliefs. Just look at the polls.
Have you noticed how gun sales have skyrocketed, and most of the purchases are being made by blue residents of blue states and cities? How many of them do you think sympathize or support Antifa and BLM? Very few, or they wouldn’t be arming themselves.
Have you noticed how the polls also show that Americans overwhelmingly support the police and agree with the idea of deploying the US military to stop the rioters?
There are many who think the rise of the Progressive Left is an inevitability. It is my contention that the exact opposite is far more likely. In Antifa and BLM and the dhimmicrats’ embracing of bizarre policies such as transgender bathrooms, reparations and disbanding or otherwise hogtie-ing police departments and replacing them with social workers, I see the END of the Progressive movement. Where many see strength and fanaticism, I see clear signs of a movement in its death throes.
Now it’s time for me to stand on my soap box in Hyde Park and pontificate. Brace yourselves…..
What is progressivism? Why does it exist, particularly in its current neo-maoist/red guard form? We can trace Progressivism back to Plato (yes, I’ve been over this ground before) and his idealized, socially static Republic. Thus, collectivization versus individualism is a conflict deeply rooted in Western civilization.
Rousseau revived it in the 1700’s. Read carefully, one can discern in Rousseau’s attractive prose a reaction against the Renaissance and Enlightenment, said reaction driven by feudal aristocratic discontent with the gathering dissolution of the old feudal order which had THEM in charge, at the very pinnacle of the social and economic pyramid, in control of all aspects of civil life and ‘benevolently’ directing the affairs of the peasantry/proletariat by ‘divine right’ and inherent merit. Rousseau wrapped this discontent which he shared (as he believed himself to be an ‘unjustly’ disinherited member of the aristocracy) in an ideological cloak of ‘love for humanity’ – enslaving the populace ‘for their own good.’
Rousseau’s bullshit arose naturally – if it hadn’t been him, it would have been someone else around that time who would have formulated this reactionary collectivist ideology/theology. Toynbee pointed out that when a new civilization arose or was reborn from its own ruin, it generated the next existential crisis that would one day confront it. One can think of it as a Phoenix whose rebirth (palingenesia) gives birth simultaneously to its nemesis. Those dissatisfied with the rising new order congregate around that which opposes it.
Rousseau’s ideology was put into practice by Robespierre during the French Revolution, and was rightly rejected by the French citizenry and violently so. Marx and Engels reinvigorated and re-clothed it in ‘class struggle’ terms, providing the seeds for Fascism, Naziism and Communism, all which met their demise during the 20th century.
Progressivism is a dying gasp. How can we tell? Notice how stridently militant, orthodox, intolerant and violent it is. Sociopolitical movements with natural strength and appeal have millions upon millions of people joining their marches, joyfully and energetically. They don’t have small groups of hundreds or a few thousand frantically trying to provoke a violent public incident for coverage by a sympathetic media. What we’re seeing is cultists who are deeply terrified by the visible failures and un-ignorable challenges to their scripture and who are acting out in panic, like the Jim Jones cult, the Branch Davidians and others of their ilk. We are also seeing the weakness of the cult’s members – mostly ‘white’ people (even those marching ostensibly for BLM) who loudly shout out “Delete the White!” or other self-hating stupidities in a clownish attempt to signal virtue and add meaning to their meaningless lives.
Example – from a Washington State National Guardsman and Army vet after two weeks duty in Seattle:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shocking-eye-witness-account-whats-really-happening-during-seattle-riots
Note in particular the reactions of Seattle’s mayor and Washington’s governor. They are part of the old ruling clique which is simply not equipped to handle this level of contempt for law and order.
We also see polls indicating widespread loss of confidence in society’s institutions – another Toynbee factor in an Existential Crisis, where the Old Guard that helped the civilization thru the previous crisis (in our case, the Great Depression and WW2) is unable to deal with the new crisis. In this phase, old institutions that have lost their vigor and purpose are either redefined or scrapped and replaced – and that process has now begun here. These are symptoms both of a Toynbee existential crisis and a 4th Turning.
Look at Victor Orban in Eastern Europe – a part of the Orthodox Christian civilization separate from but tied to Western civilization. He symbolizes the new way forward from the time of the Iron Curtain and Warsaw pact. Eastern Europe HATES socialism, even if they’ve kept a few crippled pieces of its social, political and economic centralization. Western Civ is behind the curve and still needs to experience a lot of pain before it finally sheds its socialist mores, but people like Nigel Farage, Matteo Salvini, Sebastian Kurz and Marine Le-Pen have garnered great strength against and popular support against the decrepit Old Guard represented by the EU ministers.
The American Civilization’s New Guard and its Grey Champions are emerging. TRUMP is at the vanguard. A considerable number have mixed feelings about him – this is NORMAL for Grey Champions. He is without question a profoundly transformative figure, and there are others like him that are emerging.
For clarity’s sake – our troubles aren’t over. They won’t be obviously on their way out until 2024 or so, as far as I can tell. In between now and then, there will still be much tumult – the final spasms and death rattle of Progressivism will be gruesome.
As I had forecasted, there was a strong chance of high levels of violence from the Progressives even before the election. It’s going to get much worse, folks – Antifa and BLM are being directed to PROVOKE a violent, lethal response from authority, and it happened last nite in ALbuquerque. It was inevitable. We’re going to see the Red Guard turning to guns and bombs openly now, and the escalation will be rapid.
It’s darkest before the dawn, folks. Just brace yourselves. The light at the end of the tunnel is approaching fast.
Hope everyone can make sense of the above. I haven’t taken the time to do edits for clarity.
It’s the American version of a communist revolution.
When they dismantle the police, they replace them with the Stasi or NKVD and start arresting you…if you aren’t shot out of hand.
Is Bill Palmer explaining it because he agrees or is he satirising it? If the latter, that is humour so dry I need a drink.
A people without history cannot conceive that “this, too, shall pass.” Nor can they reflect that the previous cycle of this pattern ended poorly. They are left defenseless to the passions of the moment — to be jerked back-and-forth by the day’s causes.
Found this on Facebook.
“In 1933 Hitler appointed Hermann Goring Minister of the Interior. His first orders were to defund and eliminate the police departments so they would not interfere with his Brown Shirts. The Brown Shirts mission was to riot, burn, beat up and kill civilians in an effort to sway elections and advance the Nazi agenda. Now American Socialist leaders want to defund and eliminate police.” Meanwhile Antifa who battled the Nazis in the 1930’s riot, burn, beat up and kill civilians. And DA’s elected by Soros money release these rioters without charges. Governors and Mayors with few exceptions make little or no effort to stop either the riots or the destruction of historical monuments.
Will we see Antifa poll monitors to ensure voting is done properly and people vote the right way? I can picture a scenario where the Black Panthers are battling Antifa outside of at least one polling place. Good times for all.
Stay safe and stock up on ammo if you can find it.
My first thought was, “Trump will be the last president of a Unified States of America”. I’m hoping that this Reign of Terror will peter out, but I fear it won’t. Will those Unregenerate Woke follow the Confederates into Secession? Will, this time, we decide to let them go?
I was hoping that Kurt Schlichter’s books were just entertainment, not prediction.
The Long March will likely continue. Using the ‘natural eye’, is there any reason to think it won’t? Perhaps.
1. Demographics. Religious conservatives tend to out-reproduce everyone else.
2. Homeschooling. Growing exponentially. Will it increase fast enough? I don’t know, but the Wuhan Virus has given it a boost.
3. The 1st and 2nd Amendments. What will happen when (not if) public reading of some or all passages of Scripture are declared illegal as ‘hate speech’? Will any governors declare such rulings null and void in their states? Will any county sheriffs deputize sufficient armed citizens to defend the churches? What will happen when (not if) some future iteration of the SCOTUS turns the 2nd on its head and instructs a beefed up ATF to start seizing private firearms?
History does not repeat itself, although it does move in spirals. There has NEVER been a large nation in which a substantial percentage of the citizenry owns semi-automatic firearms. What will happen as we approach tyranny? Hitler’s Brown Shirts didn’t have to deal with ‘a rifle behind every blade of grass’ (quote attributed to Yamamoto, possibly apocryphal). Antifa will have problems if they attempt to riot in eastern Kentucky.