{"id":21881,"date":"2023-01-21T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2023-01-21T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T17:40:41","slug":"will-the-woke-world-eventually-crash-of-its-own-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/will-the-woke-world-eventually-crash-of-its-own-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Woke World Eventually Crash of its Own Accord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors of the imminent crash of the woke world have been circulating for millennia.\u00a0 Plato records Socrates bemoaning the bad manners and laziness of young Athenians.\u00a0 Well, they did lose the Peloponnesian War so maybe that&#8217;s not a good example.\u00a0 But it does seem like the demise of our declining civilization is taking an inordinately long time to happen.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I&#8217;ve identified a reliable harbinger of the apocalypse:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MLK-Statue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21880\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MLK-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1111\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MLK-Statue.jpg 1111w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MLK-Statue-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MLK-Statue-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MLK-Statue-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1111px) 100vw, 1111px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somebody paid millions of dollars to create this thing to honor Martin Luther King in Boston.\u00a0 This is not a trivial thing.\u00a0 The hoops you need to go through to get the funds, allocate the public space, get all the regulatory requirement approved and get all the warring factions of the woke coalition lined up is anything but easy.\u00a0 Now imagine they did all this and still didn&#8217;t look at this abstract sculpture carefully from all directions to see what it would look like.<\/p>\n<p>These people are either profoundly stupid or mentally ill.\u00a0 Or they&#8217;re both.\u00a0 Of course what does that say about us that we&#8217;re being run into the ground by them?<\/p>\n<p>Truly we&#8217;ve reached a point in our civilization where the only hope is for some locality to break entirely away from this sick depraved global mess and try to restore a sane healthy human community.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s the quadrillion dollar question; will it happen?\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;ve got something around twenty years left on this planet (more or less) and I&#8217;m very interested to see the outcome.\u00a0 If it begins to look like some place, maybe a US red state, starts accomplishing this revolution I&#8217;ll advocate vigorously for my descendants to migrate to that place.\u00a0 But I can tell you unequivocally that it won&#8217;t be Boston.\u00a0 These must be the most hopelessly myopic people on the face of the Earth.\u00a0 They should be mercilessly mocked by everyone over this for as long as it takes for that absurd statue to be torn down and melted down to make maritime hardware or something at least useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors of the imminent crash of the woke world have been circulating for millennia.\u00a0 Plato records Socrates bemoaning the bad manners and laziness of young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2696],"class_list":["post-21881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-woke-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will the Woke World Eventually Crash of its Own Accord? 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