Macbeth has a speech late in the play. His wife has suicided and his enemies are gathering for the kill. And all his actions and all his hopes have been swallowed up into a nightmare. He says,
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 5
And sometimes our plight summons a similar feeling in me. Our enemies call all the shots. They control the heights of all the power structures. They’ve even done a thorough job of brain-washing the younger generation into thinking that all the destruction of our way of life was the inevitable working of capitalism. So that a decline into an impoverished welfare state is the reasonable and just future for themselves. That life is but a walking shadow. And that resisting this fate is a hopeless effort, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. And controlling the youth, they determine the future.
I don’t deny that is probably where the smart money is currently bet.
But for whatever reason I disagree. Maybe it’s just personal prejudice. But, when I look at both sides, I find that our side has the more interesting characters; a more compelling plot. We have a better story to tell.
The Left is selling despair. Their message is: give up and die.
They say trade your life for a cash card and a smart phone and a grimy cell in a youth hostel and gender assignment surgery and the promise that you won’t have to think or try.
And I’m sure that there is a good-sized audience that will walk down that dead end. Millions. But I refuse to believe that everyone will follow it. There will be a good-sized audience; millions, that will say, “That’s all you’re selling?”
And some of them will hear what our side has to say. And I think that may be enough to decide things in the long run. An army of zombies, even an army of millions, is still mostly nothing. And it’s an aging army. Zombies don’t have children. They get older and weaker every day.
Our side has the advantage that what we say not only has the ring of truth, it is the truth. Calling nonsense, nonsense and basing your actions on logic and reality even in the short run is the winning strategy.
The fact that they’ve rigged so many parts of the system we live under doesn’t mean it’s hopeless. It just means you have to use your head to avoid the snares and pitfalls they’ve set for us. With the Left in authority in many roles it’s obviously not going to be easy to flourish. There is a lot of pain and frustration involved. But as long as this country is still the best option for living a somewhat free existence then it’s worth our while to work around their traps.
And even just looking at the messaging that seems to be moving around in the media, even in the mainstream media, it seems that our version of the story is resonating with all kinds of different people. I think that Biden and his band of weirdos have so thoroughly botched their transformation of America that they’ve even alienated a lot of the coalition of the oppressed. If you watch the interviews even the zombies are semi-awake and complaining that their free stuff is too expensive.
The Democrats can steal elections and run roughshod over the Constitution but eventually they’ll end up like the Soviets. Their system will degenerate into a Potemkin Village and one day the cardboard will collapse and there won’t be anything left but angry peasants with pitchforks.
So, for whatever reason I don’t feel like just giving up. And anyone else who has something to say other than, “let’s give up,” can say it here.
