Sneaking, Not Slouching, Into World War III
Joan Didion’s 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem reflected on fragmentation of society and morality. Slouching, the idea of reluctantly and somewhat aimlessly getting to a “better place” is often referenced, not by realists or sincere critics, but by unhappy progressives, terribly concerned that we aren’t getting there soon enough.
When it comes to totalitarianism and its mass rape of communities and continents to increase state surveillance, state control, and state power, slouching is nowhere to be found. In pursuit of war and promotion of the state’s own welfare, we can identify not a single slouch, not a lazy man or woman in the bunch driving the statist train, the totalitarian globalist vision.
On the other hand, the masses employed by, and receiving temporary benefits from the state – through war employment, fascist corporate capitalism, and welfare statism – are never particularly productive. Their time, talent and energy is always misdirected and malformed, wasted at best and monstrous at worst. Unlike in a free society, where producers and consumers seek an ever-shifting balance to please themselves and others, driving production and innovation in a civil, tolerant and friendly way – state economies depend on war and fear of war to drive the majority into panicked groups, desperate to live for one more day, into smaller and smaller control systems or chutes, as it were.
We literally see this in Gaza today, the brutal trend unchanged since 1948. Intentionally starved, impoverished, and injured communities herded to and fro, into smaller and smaller pens, for the inevitable slaughter. If you cannot read or comprehend what is happening by design in Gaza, we have images and maps that summarize this process. It is not experimental; it is policy.
State extermination of Palestinians is also US policy, and it benefits the US kakistocracy. Zionists have many excuses for their institutionalized theft and murder, their ongoing genocide of Palestine’s non-Jews. God said we could steal it, bulldoze it, rape it, and kill the owners of it. Individuals who believe and act on this nonsense are found mainly in asylums and prisons; it’s good to be a state. Political Zionism is embedded with unsubtle European-style colonial racism, of the kind well-documented in George Orwell’s first novel, Burmese Days. United States government has actively perpetuated this racism and colonialism in lockstep with Israel for seven decades – even as most of the planet now condemns it.
There is no slouching here. Only
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