Back in the Paleolithic Epoch I read a story by Brother Heinlein called \u201cThe Year of the Jackpot.\u201d\u00a0 In the story a statistician named Potiphar Breen has detected a convergence of all the various human and natural cycles.\u00a0 Everything from the sunspot cycle to stock market crashes are headed for a simultaneous crescendo that he predicts will shatter normal human patterns.\u00a0 Proof of his thesis is detectable in a rash of lunatic behavior in every human grouping.\u00a0 Aberrant behavior like transvestitism is becoming commonplace, ordinary women are spontaneously stripping in public and in general, people are becoming unhinged.\u00a0 Based on his calculations he believes it will come to a head within a year and will result in cataclysm.\u00a0 Not to ruin the story, which is actually quite fun, but as predicted, all hell breaks loose when all these metaphorical evil slot machines pay off at once.<\/p>\n
As is typical in the age we live in, all Heinlein\u2019s predictions fall short of reality.\u00a0 His fictional transvestitism is now a feeble half-measure compared to the reality of transgender lunacy that we currently endure.\u00a0 And all other aberrations he predicted pale in comparison to the actual insanity that currently reigns on our streets and in our homes.<\/p>\n
As far as The Year of the Jackpot, well, all the trend lines for disaster have been pegged out as vertical asymptotes for so long that we\u2019ve forgotten that they can slow down, never mind actually reverse direction.\u00a0 Predicting catastrophe is meaningless.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been in a perpetual train wreck for decades.\u00a0 All the stored-up reserves of stability and normalcy are completely depleted.\u00a0 Every societal structure meant to support our civilization is dry-rotted and hollowed out.\u00a0 The only real question is what straw will break the camel\u2019s back.\u00a0 So, in the spirit of Heinlein\u2019s story I\u2019d like to examine our current world and extrapolate where the trends will lead.<\/p>\n
Probably most significant of the latest developments is the #metoo phenomenon.\u00a0 The ongoing media circus is consuming movie, news and political celebrities in Hollywood, New York and Washington at a pretty good clip.\u00a0 I think I read the current count is about one hundred accused.\u00a0 The great majority of these are lefties so the entertainment value is undeniable.\u00a0 But the hoped-for target is the President.\u00a0 What is the likelihood of it succeeding?\u00a0 I\u2019d say extremely low. \u00a0The current targets all work for liberals (either in corporate leadership or as a constituency).\u00a0 Trump owes exactly zero allegiance to feminists and their rules.\u00a0 But will there be any other upshot of the continuing rollout of this phenomenon?\u00a0 I think there will be.\u00a0 As the numbers start to increase I predict that even the feminists will see the downside of removing all functionally heterosexual men from the liberal institutions.\u00a0 What it will do is reinforce that politically correct rules of behavior are not only inherently anti-male but obviously unjust.\u00a0 Due process and the presumption of innocence have no part in these proceedings.\u00a0 All men are presumed guilty with no possibility of appeal.<\/p>\n
All this will have a two-fold effect.\u00a0 In the case of leftists their friends will throw them under the bus to toe the line.\u00a0 Eventually, as the offenses become more and more trivial these men will start hiring lawyers to defend their interests.\u00a0 The backlash promises to be substantial and equally hilarious as the accusers are made to look rightly ridiculous in their paranoia and pettiness.\u00a0 In the case of right wing individuals not associated with left wing institutions, they will defend themselves against these charges and begin the process of rolling back some of this extra-judicial overreach.\u00a0 Hopefully this will have the effect of discouraging exaggerated accusations.\u00a0 It will also draw attention to the ridiculous state of sexual harassment laws and their irrational double standards of application.<\/p>\n
But the much bigger story is the ongoing Trumpocalypse.\u00a0 The enormity of this phenomenon is almost impossible to exaggerate.\u00a0 Regardless of whether President Trump can achieve an actual reversal of the in-progress vivisection of the legacy citizenry of the former United States of America, he demonstrates just how desperate the situation actually is.\u00a0 All the harassed non-protected groups banded together and elected a reality tv comic book character to be their savior.\u00a0 And against all odds and expectations he has proven to be an heroic figure.\u00a0 Almost single-handedly he has taken on both parties in Congress, the various tentacles of the Deep State and the entire Hollywood Media Complex.\u00a0 While doing this he has provided endless entertainment and moral support for every down-trodden man in this troubled land.\u00a0 So, if he succeeds in reversing the direction we\u2019re headed and begins fixing the worst of the problems the leftists have inflicted on us (mass immigration, affirmative action) then that will be against a might upheaval of the cultural Marxist establishment.\u00a0 There will be riots in the streets and insane propaganda unheard of since Baghdad Bob was running Saddam Hussein\u2019s public relations office.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0But even if he is brought down by the leftists I forsee him providing the spark to finally blow this whole powder keg sky high.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an exaggeration to say that there would be a march on Washington that will make the various million-man marches look pathetic.\u00a0 He has awakened a very large force of really pissed off men.<\/p>\n
To get back to my original thesis, the Year of the Jackpot is upon us very soon.\u00a0 Will things fall apart or improve?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Maybe even both.\u00a0 And it\u2019s actually a relief.\u00a0 Realizing that things cannot continue along the same trajectory is encouraging.\u00a0 Something\u2019s gotta give and hopefully it\u2019ll be them.\u00a0 But even if it\u2019s actual dissolution it is better than the slow collapse.\u00a0 This way at least something may be saved.\u00a0 And as more people wake up to just how bad things are it adds to the weight pushing against the locked door of the burning barn.\u00a0 We may get out alive.\u00a0 Here\u2019s to the Jackpot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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