Tonight, I was talking to a friend who lives in Manhattan. He was so claustrophobic from the endless lockdown that he decided to go to a restaurant. That means he was so sick of being trapped in his apartment that he was willing to eat outside at night in temperatures below the freezing point. He then walked twenty-five blocks just so he could be outdoors and feel like there was some normalcy to his life. But that illusion was quickly dispelled. He told me that at one point there were twenty city busses in virtually a convoy headed up Madison Avenue, all empty. They probably weren’t attempting to maintain this configuration but since nobody was attempting to ride on them and since there is virtually no traffic, they basically pile up at the slower traffic signals and form this absurd wagon train.
Think about it, Manhattan at Christmas time and the streets are deserted. The stores on Fifth Avenue are not just empty but looted and boarded up and the ruinously expensive transit system is empty and running like some sort of ghost of itself through a modern-day necropolis. Well at least something has finally come along to put an end to the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” crowd interviews. They’ll just set up a zoom meeting between Miley Cyrus, Mariah Carey, Yoko Ono and the ghost of Cindy Lauper’s hair stylist.
Any other year in the last hundred and fifty years and Manhattan during Christmas week would be standing room only in every store, restaurant, sidewalk, hospital, jail and stairwell. Money equivalent to the gross national product of medium sized countries would be changing hands in the upscale boutiques, restaurants and jewelry stores and every little kid for fifty miles around would be trooping past the giant Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center on his way to seeing Santa Claus at Macy’s.
If you remember the H. G. Wells’ book or the movie adaption, “The Time Machine,” in the far future humans have devolved into two populations. On the surface are beautiful but effete people called the Eloi. They are completely passive and only survive because their food is provided by the other population, the underground dwelling, monstrously ugly but technically capable Morlocks. We learn that the Morlocks are cannibals and they harvest a certain number of Eloi by summoning them into underground air raid shelters by means of an old-style air raid siren. And the Eloi are so bovine that they never think to question that none of those going underground ever come back.
Honestly, is it really a stretch to say that we have become the Eloi? Maybe not all of us and maybe not quite to the point where we are literally thrown in the soup pot but the difference is one of degree not kind. Granted the worst of it is in the Blue States and Cities. In these places the situation is worst. They’ve sacrificed the livelihoods and future of the small business owners and the educations and mental health of all of their children to play games with the mortality statistics from a flu that only strikes the very old or the very ill. And even in places where they followed all their absurd rules the same number of people died as in the places where restrictions weren’t enforced. And at the same time the Morlocks have unleashed another plague on us. They’ve empowered the Antifa/BLM monsters to cannibalize what’s left after the COVID harvesting is complete. That is assuming COVID is ever really allowed to end.
It makes you wonder what it would take to wake these people up. In the Time Machine movie what it took was an outsider who wasn’t conditioned to their passivity to show them how to fight back. Today I’m not even sure that something like that would work. There is no fight left in them. They’ve become domestic animals, cattle.
So, so bad, but so true:(:(:(
The only silver lining is that if a resistance ever does get going all this nonsense will collapse like a house of cards.
A sad but excellent post, photog. At first I thought it was a review of Stephen King’s _The Dead Zone_.
That was the King book that finally finished my initial interest in his books.
In retrospect I think The Shining was the best of his work. His politics are insufferable.
To me, you’re describing something from a dystopian movie or book. Nothing like that exists in NW Florida, you see masks but, other than that, life is normal.
Why aren’t the younger people out, the teens to mid-50’s? Follow the science, they have nothing to fear past the equivalency of a cold or flu at worst.
Has the entire population of NY been turned into a herd of sheep?
In terms of geographic area it corresponds to just about all the areas of the country that voted for Biden. I believe there is a reckoning not that far down the road between Blue and Red.
Big fan of H.G. But, To go deeper into your subject of the Eloi and the Morlocks. I think to real message is. Time being cumulative. Tomorrow is not the answer. Today is the time. To stop what will be. If action isn’t put in place today, Tomorrow will just get worse. But, The herd mentality is strong. Even in places where no one is required to go along with the mandates. Of other cities or states. Monkey see Monkey do. For now we live in a Time of endless talk. Mostly from two sides. One side do nothing. Let… Read more »
I think I see what you’re saying StormRider. I think what we need to catalyze the action is a powerful leader in a secure Red State to just say no to the establishment. At that point he would become a focus for the disgruntled regular people and a massive resistance would quickly organize. If something like that happened I think the Left would cave pretty quickly. Once a first victory was achieved others would occur soon after. This country is a powder keg. A spark would be enough ignite an explosion. But who will be the leader?
They ya go.
And, Now we see the foundations the left has built is starting to crack.
Can’t be soon enough for me. When the strong horse appears he’ll have lots of support.