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I get an e-mail whenever Curtis Yarvin writes a post in his Substack; Gray Mirror.\u00a0 Now Yarvin is a lunatic but an engaging and clever lunatic.\u00a0 His answer to all of the ills of our society is always the same; install a king.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m always a little daunted when I consider reading his posts, not least of all because they are usually between five and ten thousand words long.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 Luckily this one was on the low end of that range<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a gentle chiding of Richard Hanania for becoming a moderate.\u00a0 I guess Hanania was being attacked in the media for being an alt-right partisan in his younger days.\u00a0 Well, who wasn\u2019t?\u00a0 Anyway, after a few thousand words to ridicule the concept of classical liberalism Yarvin gets down to his bottom line.\u00a0 Any and all progress against the woke left is hopeless because the oligarchy protects it and the only way to get rid of the oligarchy is with a king.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe.<\/p>\n

So, because our representative democracy has been hijacked by an oligarchy, according to him we should welcome a dictator.\u00a0 And you wonder, how did that work out for the Romans?\u00a0 Julius Caesar and Augustus were pretty good.\u00a0 But after that, what a nightmare.\u00a0 How do you keep the king from being a madman or an incompetent?\u00a0 Yarvin has this idea that it would be like some kind of CEO for the country and there would be a board of directors who could hire and fire the king.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m guessing that stuffing that board would be like stuffing the Supreme Court.\u00a0 And truth be told the board would be the oligarchs and they would just choose one of their oligarchi-est oligarchs to run their show.\u00a0 And how in hell do you get something like this started?\u00a0 No, there is no way out that way.<\/p>\n

What seems to be the case is that we are heading for a crisis.\u00a0 The old system and the way that it works is reaching a breaking point.\u00a0 Those in charge seem to have a plan to permanently make the voting system just a rubber stamp for their regime.\u00a0 And at the same time, they want to change the class system in this country from a middle-class dominant model to a feudal system with the peasants working for the oligarchs.\u00a0 And to be totally honest it sure looks like they\u2019re way ahead getting their plan done.\u00a0 A big chunk of the millennials and zoomers have serf written all over them.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe.<\/p>\n

But the best laid plans of oligarchs and serfs oft time go to hell in the real world.\u00a0 I still think it\u2019s too soon to just throw in the towel.\u00a0 The demolition of the American economy is preceding at such a breakneck pace that it is somewhat possible that a popular revolt might miraculously sweep the Democrats completely out of power long enough to allow actual representatives of the people to make drastic reforms and restore our interests.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe.<\/p>\n

After reading about the FBI gunning down that old guy in Provo, Utah<\/a> I\u2019m not feeling so chipper today.\u00a0 I know the radical nature of the killing should help to delegitimize the institutions like the FBI.\u00a0 And it probably does.\u00a0 The man as described was obviously no threat to anyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeighbors who spoke with the Deseret News described Robertson as a markedly different person than what he portrayed online. One person called him a \u201cteddy bear\u201d known for his woodworking who would sit in the same seat at church every Sunday; another said he was barely mobile, weighed nearly 300 pounds and was unable to walk without a cane. He would drive to church, despite it only being about 200 yards from his home, because he had so much trouble moving around.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neighbors also described a harrowing scene, with dozens of agents converging on the Provo house, rifles drawn and hiding behind bulletproof shields as flash bangs exploded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t believe that this man warranted that kind of response,\u201d said Travis Clark, who lived up the street from Robertson.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It makes me sick to think that the FBI has become a secret police agency, no different from the Stasi and the KGB.\u00a0 In fact, worse than those organizations.\u00a0 At least the KGB wouldn\u2019t have allowed BLM and Antifa to burn down their own cities.\u00a0 But maybe it will be this kind of gestapo tactics that convinces a solid majority of the American people that our \u201cleaders\u201d are really our overlords now and need to be replaced with something better.<\/p>\n

Maybe, maybe not.<\/p>\n

Tough day to be optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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