Tonight, I was talking to a friend who lives in Manhattan.\u00a0 He was so claustrophobic from the endless lockdown that he decided to go to a restaurant.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 He then walked twenty-five blocks just so he could be outdoors and feel like there was some normalcy to his life.\u00a0 But that illusion was quickly dispelled.\u00a0 He told me that at one point there were twenty city busses in virtually a convoy headed up Madison Avenue, all empty.\u00a0 They probably weren\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
Think about it, Manhattan at Christmas time and the streets are deserted.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Well at least something has finally come along to put an end to the \u201cDick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve\u201d crowd interviews.\u00a0 They\u2019ll just set up a zoom meeting between Miley Cyrus, Mariah Carey, Yoko Ono and the ghost of Cindy Lauper\u2019s hair stylist.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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\u2019s.<\/p>\n
If you remember the H. G. Wells\u2019 book or the movie adaption, \u201cThe Time Machine,\u201d in the far future humans have devolved into two populations.\u00a0 On the surface are beautiful but effete people called the Eloi.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And the Eloi are so bovine that they never think to question that none of those going underground ever come back.<\/p>\n
Honestly, is it really a stretch to say that we have become the Eloi?\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Granted the worst of it is in the Blue States and Cities.\u00a0 In these places the situation is worst.\u00a0 They\u2019ve 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.\u00a0 And even in places where they followed all their absurd rules the same number of people died as in the places where restrictions weren\u2019t enforced.\u00a0 And at the same time the Morlocks have unleashed another plague on us.\u00a0 They\u2019ve empowered the Antifa\/BLM monsters to cannibalize what\u2019s left after the COVID harvesting is complete.\u00a0 That is assuming COVID is ever really allowed to end.<\/p>\n
It makes you wonder what it would take to wake these people up.\u00a0 In the Time Machine movie what it took was an outsider who wasn\u2019t conditioned to their passivity to show them how to fight back.\u00a0 Today I\u2019m not even sure that something like that would work.\u00a0 There is no fight left in them.\u00a0 They\u2019ve become domestic animals, cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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