by Joe Siano
Oh the song of the
future has been sung
All the battles have been won
O'er the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil
With our teardrops and our toil
All the battles have been won
O'er the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil
With our teardrops and our toil
Canadian
Railroad Trilogy (Gordon Ligtfoot)
And here with stand on the threshold of transhumanism when decay, disability and
death will be defeated. Through the
intercession of the holy trinity of Bezos, Branson and Musk we will soon
colonize and monetize the solar system.
Yet we cannot drive to the other side of the Falls to visit Canadian cousins.
General William Lind, speaks of Fourth
Generation War, “where the state loses its monopoly on war”.
“All over the world, state militaries find themselves fighting non-state opponents such as al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the FARC. Almost everywhere, the state is losing.”
So riddle me this, if the Big State, with the Big Guns, the
Big Bombs and the Big Pockets cannot subdue the nimble and energetic little
foes that it sees, how will it ever subdue the enemy
that we cannot see?
The purported Drainer of the Swamp is now calling us to
trust the same Big State, with its Big Experts, Big Science and Big Resources to defeat a foe that moves more rapidly and clandestinely than a band of jihadists.
Those of the Progressive bent insist that we would already have this whipped if the current Cretin in Chief was not in the way. A wise and enlightened Great Leader, informed
by great science, would have foreseen this and stopped it in in tracks.
I don’t think so.
Our nation state, like all nation states, was an Industrial /
Mass Production Age invention. Its
purpose was to harness its people’s productive resources to smash other nation states
and kill their people. And it was
fabulously successful. The Twentieth Century
was by far the bloodiest on record, as civilian non-combatants became legitimate
targets because they produced the goods to feed, clothe and arm front line warriors.
Nonetheless, innovation, creativity, knowledge, wisdom and social
order never rain from the top down. Social solutions emerge from the myriads of
individuals and communities that spontaneously invent, test and adapt ideas.. The most successful of these are adopted,
adapted and refined by neighboring communities in an ongoing feedback loop beyond control
of the Big Guy.
But speaking of the Big Guy, he has blocked access to the Biggest
Of All.
At the very moment that we need God most, the Powers That Be
have pushed Him aside and shuttered the houses of worship. “Don’t’ worry Big Fella, the Government has
this under control.” Yeah, right.
We have reached a Tower of Babel moment of misplaced trust in
the power of Mighty Men.
Today, fearing
death and discomfort, the “world’s
last best hope” laid down its freedom.
We sold our birthright for a mess of pottage.
And many are dead
men
Too silent to be real
Too silent to be real
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