{"id":25896,"date":"2023-10-09T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:35:05","slug":"its-always-yeats-second-coming-that-comes-to-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/its-always-yeats-second-coming-that-comes-to-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Always Yeat\u2019s Second Coming That Comes to Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Second Coming \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turning and turning in the widening gyre\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/strong><\/p>\n

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The best lack all conviction, while the worst\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Are full of passionate intensity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surely some revelation is at hand;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The darkness drops again; but now I know\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

That twenty centuries of stony sleep<\/strong><\/p>\n

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I always come back to this poem, if poem is the right word.\u00a0 Warning or nightmare or terrible vision of the future.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cMere anarchy is loosed upon the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That line always seems apt for whatever the present-day atrocities.\u00a0 Maybe because we unconsciously buy into the progressive propaganda that the arc of history is on our side.\u00a0 And when the arc starts shifting away from our plans, we\u2019re shocked at the failure of history to behave and these surprises appear to be anarchy.\u00a0 Well, no one\u2019s buying into that arc of history jazz this morning except Lindsay Graham.\u00a0 For him the answer to every failing war is another war to distract from the failure.\u00a0 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\u2019t even begun our next forever war.\u00a0 But what am I worried about?\u00a0 We have all those nice shiny ICBMs just waiting for their targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s right.\u00a0 When the center is rotted out a strong wind will blow the tree down.\u00a0 Time to start over from first principles.\u00a0 No more empires, no more foreign adventures.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Maybe if the Pentagon is in need of employment, they can take on the Mexican cartels in New Jersey and Arizona.\u00a0 Or if that\u2019s too daunting maybe they can try to reclaim downtown Baltimore and Washington DC from the gang bangers and car jackers.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have combat drones yet as far as I know.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best lack all conviction, while the worst\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Are full of passionate intensity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Who would even try to deny these charges.\u00a0 Look at our leaders!\u00a0 And worse, look at the people.\u00a0 Those two statements sum it up beautifully.\u00a0 Joe Biden and Antifa.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This one just seems too prophetic of all.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 After our post 9-11 rampage in Afghanistan and Iraq what has been improved in the Middle East?\u00a0 All we managed to do is arm the world with our abandoned equipment and show our enemies that we have no idea what we\u2019re doing.\u00a0 And now we send billions to the mullahs in Iran to arm the Palestinians.\u00a0 We might as well ship them a few ICBMs so we can get the main event started.<\/p>\n

Maybe the end of history will turn into the end of us.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We let in millions of hostile strangers and think there will be no consequences.\u00a0 These people want what we have and they will take it and make us live by their ways.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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