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Friday, 19 July 2024

The civil war simulation that’s playing out and the real civil war that’s coming

 It has been slouching toward Bethlehem for the last eight years. The gyre has been widening, the falcon turning and turning, the centre losing hold, and so on. Its hour has not quite come round yet, but something is definitely rising out of Spiritus Mundi. No, not the beast from ‘The Second Coming’, but something perhaps just as rough and pitiless.

I’ve been calling it “The Rise of the New Normal Reich.” Others have been describing it with other names. No one can say exactly what it is, but at this point, everyone can feel it coming. Something resembling a new form of totalitarianism … or something resembling civil war. One thing often leads to the other.

Every new totalitarian system is preceded by some sort of civil war. You can’t just implement totalitarianism out of nowhere. In order to impose totalitarianism on society, you need to tear society apart, pit the masses against each other, foment fanaticism, mass hysteria and hatred. Above all, you need to foment fear. Once you have torn society apart and whipped the masses into a mindless paroxysm of fear and hate and murderous rage, you can implement your new form of totalitarianism fairly easily, as people will be desperate for the restoration of “order.”...<<<Read More>>>...