New world
We have descended into a truly new world.

In the more concrete stings like al-Qaeda and ISIS, government creates an actual monster, turns it loose, then spends millions of lives and trillions of dollars to achieve a transparently impossible "total victory" over the invented monster. This isn't new. USA STRONG has been pulling this trick for a long time.

What's completely new (or else extremely old, as in human sacrifice to propitiate the gods) is imaginary monsters.

We invent instantly disprovable pseudotheories like "global warming", then kill millions and spend trillions to propitiate Gaia.

We hold referenda to accept or reject proposals that have already expired.

We create "rights" and force businesses and schools to create new restrooms and facilities for "transsexuals", a category that is absolutely physically and logically impossible. There are some people who like to dress differently for various reasons; there are lots of people whose secondary sexual characteristics are somewhere between the ends of the spectrum; but there are EXACTLY ZERO people who have changed their gender. It CANNOT HAPPEN.

We invent "crimes" like nooses and campus rapes and church arsons and "terrorist" shootings that DID NOT HAPPEN AT ALL. These are complete and total fictions. Badly written fictions. We then treat the fictional noose or rape or arson or shooting as COMPLETELY REAL, even in the same sentence where we finally admit it didn't happen.

Today's example, the fictional "shooting" in the DC Navy Yard.

On the news just now:

"This incident brought back memories of a similar incident in 2013."

No it didn't. The 2013 incident was not similar to this incident because the 2013 incident happened and this incident did not happen. This incident is not an incident. It is pure fiction. It isn't ANY FUCKING THING AT ALL. It can't bring back memories because it didn't happen. It is NOTHING. It is a DELUSION, a HALLUCINATION, a sign of terminal mental disorder in media and government.

But Satan's media and Satan's government will NEVER say that. No, we must CHANGE EVERYTHING to guarantee that this horrible incident NEVER doesn't happen again. NEVER NOT AGAIN! The incident justifies doubling the government's workforce and budget, and justifies an infinite increase in ALL-CONSUMING ALL-SQUASHING TYRANNY.

Sidenote: If philosophers were sane, this would be a good time for philosophers to mobilize and give media/govt a hard lesson in ontology. But philosophers led the parade to insanity 100 years ago, so no help.

Labels: Age of Stings

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