Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the longer a person or people hold anger in, the greater the explosion when it emerges. People aren’t sane when they are angry. Neither you nor I are rational when in a state of fury. So once a seething anger is released, it rips whatever was holding it apart. The same happens in a pressure cooker with the outlet blocked. Keep adding heat without a vent and sooner or later the vessel will catastrophically fail. Nations are the same. The way a people or state vents seething anger… is with societal norms. These are constitutionally limited government, freedom of expression, fair courts, honest elections, and everyone has a “stake” in society. Take these things away and you have welded the pressure cooker’s vent shut. This is exactly what the elite in the West have done.
The administrative state in every nation in the West has become despotic. Unelected, unlimited, and unaccountable, they have become the real government across Europe and the Americas. In China they are still a tool of the Party Chairman, because they are aligned in goals and he has the power of terror to keep them in line. Winston serves the CCP, while in Germany, the US, and Mexico, the government serves him. In other words, elected governments are accountable to their bureaucracies, not the other way around. That’s why we see people going to jail in the UK for “non-crime hate speech.” That’s merely a euphemism for wrongspeak and wrongthink. Meanwhile the bureaucrats ban political parties, rig courts, and act as kings in their own right. Elections become theater when parties are banned.
We have the appearance of just government in the facade of constitutional government. That, however, is but a sheer nightgown covering naked despotism. The administrative state hides behind it pretending they aren’t the real government. So we can think we have a say as things get worse and worse. To protect their usurpation, they have to silence dissent by calling it misinformation and disinformation because wrongspeak and wrongthink are politically deadly. Being unelected and unaccountable, the bureaucracy can force implementation of absurdity under color of law. Putting anti-methane drugs in cow’s feed, that kills them, is an example. Such crazy ideas, forced on farmers, can only lead to famine. Then again, famine always follows centralized planning.
In the West today, our governments are simply a con played on us because they have no real power. They exist to let us think we live under a democratic system when we really don’t. As that system works and makes our lives worse and worse, and we discover all the institutions that we were told would protect us are actually bars instead of spears, anger grows. The more people watch their futures disappear in a haze of government regulations, taxes, and draconian statutes, even as the state becomes less and less responsive… the more anger builds below the surface. Then again, why should government be responsive to the needs of citizens? The apparent government has no power while the real government is unaccountable and unelected. The scam is supposed to shunt anger to ground.
The trouble with exploiting a swindle to keep people off balance is that once things get bad enough… no theater will distract us. Just as bread and circuses contained Roman anger for a while, the reality destroyed the empire from within. This is where the West is today. We live under a fictitious system that protects an unelected, unaccountable, and therefore an unresponsive system. This wouldn’t result in anger if they did a good job. The mask would be sufficient. The trouble is they are doing a terrible job and at the same time jailing people for wrongspeak and wrongthink. Now that they have swindled the people of Europe out of vast wealth, liberty, elections, and security, the elite are astonished at the seething anger. This makes the anger rational, dangerous, and the explosion inevitable.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
