Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Serves a purpose
Here's a pet peeve that isn't new by any means, but it's especially frustrating this year.
Writers and columnists are always saying Trump must do X or Biden must do Y or WeThePeople must make our voices heard.
These imperatives are nonsense and serve no purpose.
Trump and Biden don't listen to these imperatives. Trump and Biden listen to the masters. They already know what they MUST do, and it has absolutely no connection to anything WeThePeople might think or say.
If you want to influence the masters you need to beat them at the blackmail game. Nothing else counts. Making imperative noise only keeps WeThePeople distracted from the realities of power. As long as we believe in Santa Claus and "elections", we will send money to the noisemakers.
The money is the real reason for the noise. It's just another form of entertainment. Unlike most forms of entertainment, politics is neither beautiful nor amusing nor inspiring nor educational. It's just loud.
This year exposed the total emptiness of the noise. Normally a universal holocaust would bring some noise from "opposition" politicians wearing the "other" team shirt. They would pretend to "oppose" the holocaust in order to bring in money from fools with the same team shirt. This year they didn't even bother. Dead silence. They were getting all the money they could ever want from Satan, so they didn't need to pretend.
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Later, here's a good example of the pointless imperative. Bovard explodes some of the myths and halfway gets the reality, but then falls back into mythdom:
Perhaps it has long been a myth that we live in a self-governing republic rather than a Leviathan Democracy where citizens merely make cameo appearances every few years at the voting booth. It is still possible that the catastrophic and pointless losses imposed by Covid crackdowns will finally awaken enough people to their growing subjugation. But the most dangerous myth is that Americans will finally become safe after they cease making any efforts to leash their rulers.Efforts to leash their rulers? Stupid. There's no way to leash a psychopath after it tastes blood and turns feral. "Efforts" only excite the psychopath into a killing frenzy.
Labels: Entertainment, Jail mode
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