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It’s Always Yeat’s Second Coming That Comes to Mind

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The Second Coming    BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Turning and turning in the widening gyre  

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere  

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst  

Are full of passionate intensity.

 

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.  

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out  

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert  

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,  

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,  

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it  

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.  

The darkness drops again; but now I know  

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,  

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,  

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

I always come back to this poem, if poem is the right word.  Warning or nightmare or terrible vision of the future.

 

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”

That line always seems apt for whatever the present-day atrocities.  Maybe because we unconsciously buy into the progressive propaganda that the arc of history is on our side.  And when the arc starts shifting away from our plans, we’re shocked at the failure of history to behave and these surprises appear to be anarchy.  Well, no one’s buying into that arc of history jazz this morning except Lindsay Graham.  For him the answer to every failing war is another war to distract from the failure.  The wars and atrocities are starting to pile up nicely and even the moron in the White House must be getting nervous about how few tanks, artillery shells and Bradley Fighting Vehicles are still in reserve and we haven’t even begun our next forever war.  But what am I worried about?  We have all those nice shiny ICBMs just waiting for their targets.

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

That’s right.  When the center is rotted out a strong wind will blow the tree down.  Time to start over from first principles.  No more empires, no more foreign adventures.  Marshal the strength to restore the health of the people who make up this country before we think about fighting Russians and Chinese and whoever else is on the regime hit list.  Maybe if the Pentagon is in need of employment, they can take on the Mexican cartels in New Jersey and Arizona.  Or if that’s too daunting maybe they can try to reclaim downtown Baltimore and Washington DC from the gang bangers and car jackers.  They don’t have combat drones yet as far as I know.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst  

Are full of passionate intensity.”

Who would even try to deny these charges.  Look at our leaders!  And worse, look at the people.  Those two statements sum it up beautifully.  Joe Biden and Antifa.

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,  

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

This one just seems too prophetic of all.  Look at Europe and even America and tell me how it will resist a reign of terror with the leaders we have currently in charge.  After our post 9-11 rampage in Afghanistan and Iraq what has been improved in the Middle East?  All we managed to do is arm the world with our abandoned equipment and show our enemies that we have no idea what we’re doing.  And now we send billions to the mullahs in Iran to arm the Palestinians.  We might as well ship them a few ICBMs so we can get the main event started.

Maybe the end of history will turn into the end of us.  Unless this country wakes up and takes the reins of power away from the lunatics currently running things, the cities of this country will be indistinguishable from Gaza and Beirut.  We let in millions of hostile strangers and think there will be no consequences.  These people want what we have and they will take it and make us live by their ways.  And even the LGBTQ might look back on the intolerant right of the 1980s like heaven on earth compared to the rough beast about to be born in the desert.

Observations on a Sunday Night – Yeats Again

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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre  

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere  

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst  

Are full of passionate intensity.

…”

from The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

 

Yeats was onto something all those years ago.  Russia and China are starting to cut the strings that attach themselves to the global entity.  It appears there will be other options to the woke organizing model.  Nationalist sensibilities and more traditional societal structures than the atomized Facebook model are beginning to assert itself outside the control of the US and Europe.  We may have a reached a tipping point with the sanctions against Russia and the reaction of Chinese.  The globalist project may have bitten off much more than they can chew.

First the collapse of Afghanistan.  Watching the debacle and hearing the reactions of the Left, confirms that their priority was turning a primitive Islamic state into an LGBTQ vacation destination.  They had no idea how impossible their vision of Afghanistan was.  Only American riflemen permitted the center of Kabul to pretend that the Taliban weren’t in control of more than half the country already.  And seeing the rout occur as it did; with desperate Afghanis plunging to their deaths from the wheels of departing military transport aircraft, suicide bombers murdering US servicemen and in misdirected and impotent retaliation, an American cruise missile killing an innocent Afghan family; demonstrated the delusional mindset of the globalists running this operation and their incompetence.

Second, the crashing of the American economy into stagflation.  The greens’ war against fossil fuels has ignited runaway inflation and this along with the other domestic crises caused by Leftist initiatives like the “defund the police” movement have alienated the voting population in a convincing manner.  The likelihood of a recession is already panicking Wall Street.  And the prospect of this crisis stretching out until 2025 may finally overcome even the stupidest American’s ability to believe in idiocy.

And finally, the CIA’s color revolution in the Ukraine and Biden’s decision to go to the mat against Putin with draconian sanctions may be the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back and forces China and Russia to escape from the American dollar’s stranglehold on global economic activity.  If China begins to decouple its currency from the dollar, we may begin to see the true end of America’s economic primacy.

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”  The incompetence of our globalist elites will be their downfall.  They espouse positions that are incompatible with a healthy society.  They are driving our civilization to ruin and in a hurry.  The only silver lining to this situation is that some dissident countries like Hungary and Poland may escape the toxic effects of the globalist entity and survive.  How they will align themselves with Russia and China and any other non-woke countries is an important question for the future.  Wouldn’t it be a strange circumstance if Russia and China, the former premier communist despotic regimes led the way to a league of independent nations that escape from the globalist prison house of nations.

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”  That Yeats guy was a prophet.  I’ll use him repeatedly in the future.