Dear Friends,
It seems to me, we dwell on the mundane, while ignoring the profound. Our wants and needs are so fulfilled today we worry about the least of our burdens while pretending civilization ending forces don’t exist. If those forces were to combine and smash the edifice we depend on, to fulfill all those wants and needs, the color of our shoes matching our hat will be the least of our concerns. Many refuse to acknowledge the titanic forces gathering around us because it is such an ugly truth. Instead, fascination with who the masked singer is, far outweighs using those mental resources to understand and address the fundamental drivers of those civilization ending forces. That is the nature of humanity though. We brood on the quotidian, while the momentous comes up behind… to nip us in the derriere.
The feeling of powerlessness is hammered into those with the intellect to make meaningful change, while the ignorant and unwise are told, all they need do is join ANTIFA and BLM to fix the world. By smashing it. Because nothing is more likely to fix the world than to give the people who broke it unlimited power… enforced by the police, state secret intelligence agencies and on the mean streets by violent thugs. Then there are the examples the progressives are so fond of making. Did any rational person miss the example of Epstein being murdered in a high security facility and it being covered up? What about the fact not one client has been charged? The very real threat of violence, character destruction and being made an example of combine to give a powerful sense of powerlessness.
No civilization ever has or ever will be free from forces that would see it end. Those civilizations that ignore the threat long enough eventually are destroyed by them. “Slowly at first… then all at once.” That is the way all civilizations fall. We focus on the fall but not the events that led to it. In Troy we see the Trojan war but not the events that led to it. In Rome we concentrate on Attila the Hun and other Barbarians that gnawed at the corpse of a once great empire. The Prussian republic wasn’t felled by WWI, it started falling long before that, WWI was simply the impetus. They all ignored those factions that openly despised them. Then, in an act of stupendous stupidity, they allowed those factions to become hegemonic, just before their fall. As the US and indeed the West has done.
The mundane can be so fascinating. One can get lost binge watching a TV show for days, all the while, enriching those funding the civilization ending forces. Disney, the company founded by a man who loved children and wanted nothing but good for them… has been twisted into a child grooming service for pedophiles, perverts and psychopaths. Using their hundred million dollar movies, to bend the minds of kids into believing splendidly self injuring notions… very progressive! Even as the corporate establishment has never seen a baby they didn’t want to dismember, as an offering to their god, Moloch. The elite keep us fascinated by a light glittering off a piece of soiled tin foil, while they steal us blind. The trick is not to fall into a daze at the mesmerizing icons. Have at least some situational awareness.
The set up now, is that the most capable are convinced they are powerless, while the least wise are empowered by the state’s failure to equally enforce the law, to smash their way into utopia. Meanwhile, the civilization ending forces aiming at our civilization are getting rich, by distracting us from their machinations. Sounds like the plot to a soap opera or a B movie. Sadly it is our reality. Our focus is not on the profound but on the mundane. Not because we choose the mundane rationally, but because we are manipulated into it. In doing so we give up our agency to those who would oppress us. All we need do is step out of the dream and into reality. If you don’t hit what you aim at, at least you usually come close. So, aim at the profound, because if you aim at the mundane, you will probably hit it.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
