Weapons Of Mass Distraction (Immanentizing The Eschaton, Part Five.)

It is an ancient Mariner,

And he stoppeth one of three.

'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,

Now wherefore stops thou me?

The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide,

And I am next of kin;

The guests are met, the feast is set:

May'st hear the merry din.'

He holds him with his skinny hand,

'There was a ship,' quoth he.

'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'

Eftsoons his hand dropped he.

He holds him with his glittering eye—

The Wedding-Guest stood still,

And listens like a three years' child:

The Mariner hath his will.

~The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

So, Demon Alien sex, now? Seriously?

That's what you've got? That's your big plan. Blame all this on some woo woo bullshit, and then what? Make up something else when people keep dying.

If this lady is so religious...and a doctor, to boot...why don't y'all tell me what Book of the Bible describes Alien DNA and Demon sex and lizard people as some element of Christian truth?

Or what peer-reviewed, published medical journal or text describes any of this. Go ahead, I'll wait.

When I've cracked jokes about these people's descendants being the savages dancing around a fire in the ruins of civilization, shouting "Unga Bunga" while they wait for the witch doctor to come out of his hut and bless their overcooked cannibalistic repast of grilled member-of-the-other-tribe, this is exactly what the fuck I'm talking about.

In all seriousness, let me ask you a question; In matters of religion, according to any Holy Book, do you have to get it right or can you just fuck around and miss the mark and maybe, just maybe hit the same side of the barn and still get that nice spot in the afterlife?

Let me tell you what I was taught about how one goes to heaven in Christianity. You have to believe in God, you have to believe in Jesus Christ, and you have to be sorry for your sins and at least try to live a moral life at the same time as you understand that neither Right Action nor Right Belief is enough on its own. Christianity is not, technically, a works-based or practice-based faith, but yet faith without works is dead...and you have to know this stuff. Without Truth, somebody could try and claim that the Bible is an auto-repair manual and what could you do about it?

You have to believe in Truth, and that there is such a thing, in order to do this properly.

Likewise, biology and medicine and science are based on the scientific method. If you want a specific result, you have to go about things in a specific way, you have to follow what is known, what is scientifically proven, what is True, or people die. There is a whole body of ethics and law about this.

Much the same as there is in religion, interestingly enough.

If you accept some stupid bullshit that's dressed up as religion, according to the Bible, your eternal soul can be destroyed. Fear not he who can destroy the body, but fear He who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

If you accept some bullshit quack medicine, you can die, in a number of cases painfully while all some stupid bullshitter has to offer your family is excuses.

It seems like somebody that's both a Christian pastor and a doctor would know all this stuff.

Unless of course it's all a lie and she just doesn't care and only wants to get famous.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:

He cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,

The bright-eyed Mariner.

'The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared,

Merrily did we drop

Below the Kirk, below the hill,

Below the lighthouse top.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

These fucking people know they're in trouble. Social change, time and tide and their own refusal to roll with all of the above all but guarantees that. The fact that they picked an incompetent like Trump, who chose a comic-book henchman like Bill Barr to try and cover his ass, all but guarantees that there's going to be consequences. The current situation cannot continue for long without things blowing up.

And that's the idea, isn't it?

They know that, and they do want to make things blow up.

I've been saying for awhile, that they probably figure they can't win an election...but they figure they might win a civil war.

Trouble is, the economics and the numbers and the simple calculus of what's where don't stack up in their favor. The side that wants to maintain the global economy will always be able to find more resources to make finished products and weapons and be able to import food. The side that's going to end up with all the rural areas that depend on the cities is going to have to learn how to do a lot of the stuff they seem to hate the very idea of real quick. It's hard to fight a war when you have a bunch of guns but no way to manufacture ammunition on a massive scale and fewer people to trade with to get it. Not that they give a shit.

And don't ask how hard it is to "clear out" cities of hundreds of thousands on up to millions of people with agencies whose total number of troops on the rolls is in the low tens of thousands, not least when the citizenry is pretty close to as well armed as you are. That's eventually going to end badly.

Sure, you can bolster those numbers with a bunch of contractors and rent-a-cops for a short period of time...but it's virtually guaranteed they're not going to be in it for the long haul. Yeah, you can strip-mine your own followers for those young and strong and able to fight, but when your followers skew older and less healthy and less well educated and more prone to certain problems you're eventually just plain going to have to lower standards...and when you've already made yourself the champion of only one group, doing things that way is going to deplete your numbers faster than it wears down those of the more-diverse and more numerous other side.

Especially when you've already found out that the military isn't in your corner and you're already reduced to using contractors and security guards.

Even more so when, due to your own machinations and tribal partisanship, the deadly virus has reached its hand far enough up your ass that it's infecting your own senior leadership.

I'm not really sure what the plan is here, and the preponderance of the evidence points to the fact that there really isn't one, and they're just hoping they get lucky or whatever.

Another thing that I'm slowly becoming more and more sure of is that this isn't really about winning, to these fucking people, or at least it isn't anymore.


You could make the argument that it's about money and power, on a certain level it seems to be that, for Trump. But, he's not really doing a lot of smart things or planning very well if that's the goal. Of course, all that is consistent with his known history.


Certainly enough people have made that argument and done so convincingly. I just think among other things, whatever plans they had have not survived contact with reality, and Trump himself seems to be living in his own little world. So, like strategic forces whose command center has been hit, they're falling back on outdated plans and preset strategies because it's what they have, or what they were trained to do. You punch in the codes, you turn the key to launch your weapons, and you take your chances.

And it's not working.

And they don't care.

In point of fact, they seem to no longer know what the words mean. Like futuristic death cultists who can't innovate or repair their crumbling technology because they've forgotten the basis of it all and don't know how to make the things that make the things anymore, they just keep marching blindly forward while the priests babble grimly about some mythical Time of Ending while they serve the long-brain-dead Emperor.

And in point of fact, despite the fact that these End Times are pretty much the basis of their whole belief system, these death cultists have in place an economic system whose main purpose appears to be to distract people from the fact that everything is broken and nothing works anymore and that when the lights go out, they may never come back on again. Alone in the darkness, Man does terrible things and chaos beckons.

This isn't Warhammer 40k, this is American capitalism and the Republican Party in the year 2020.

The Sun came up upon the left,

Out of the sea came he!

And he shone bright, and on the right

Went down into the sea.

Higher and higher every day,

Till over the mast at noon—'

The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,

For he heard the loud bassoon.

The bride hath paced into the hall,

Red as a rose is she;

Nodding their heads before her goes

The merry minstrelsy.

The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,

Yet he cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,

The bright-eyed Mariner. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

It's not about winning, it's about trying to make a God of their shitty beliefs, and then martyring themselves before that very God.

To what end, I cannot say and do not pretend to know anymore.

It's about Immanentizing the Eschaton. They don't want to live in this world, but they don't want you to either. They believe they have the perfect ideological construct, and apparently they somehow believe that this will somehow live on after them, of its own devices. Remember, this is conservatism we're talking about. They believe that humans are just shadows on the cave wall in the flickering firelight, but it's the ideas that are the real Things.

That's kinda hard on the locals and the wildlife, though.

And it's even worse when you find out that you had shitty ideas all along.

Where the Communist red Hammer and Sickle flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics comes in, I have no bloody idea, and from what I can tell, neither does anybody else.

Unless...unless...it was all a lie to begin with and all the bullshit crazy histrionics and dumb ass crazy shit and all this much speaking were never anything but Weapons of Mass Distraction so that politicians and rich people could get more power and steal more money and maybe their simpering cowardly followers could work up the guts to go out and kill some people.

Then it makes perfect goddamn sense.

Part Four.