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Post-Impressionism / Suzanne Valadon/ The Blue Room

OK:  This will probably cause some pearl-clutching, but theburningplatform.com is a daily read of mine.  Probably the finest right-wing whackadoodle site out there short of QAnon.  It probably rides the line (and frequently crosses the line) into everything that the left is trying to eradicate from our lives. 

But like all whackadoodles, they always put out for display the unpleasant parts of the other side's worldview for ridicule and analysis.  Because both right and left have whackadoodle parts of their theologies.  After all, trying to force the myriad of belief systems into two opposing camps makes for some pretty big tents and some pretty strange bedfellows.

The reason that I bring TBP up today is one of their more blatantly truthful bits of whackadoodle.  They have identified me as an enemy, we can discuss the divide.  Now, lets be honest.  This is a subset of the right.  This is definitely a fringe belief from someone who is running their mouth to get some clicks.  But, since the folks he is pitching to are probably getting poorer by the day and getting progressively (HAHAHAHA) more likely to start acting out.  

The article is pretty well thought out, despite the unpleasantry it foretells.  It is the way that well armed survivalist types will assess the world around them in one of the possible futures facing us.

So that is the uncomfortable part.  The world that they envision is not one we prefer, but I can’t for the life of me remember when my desires had any effect on the nature of the world that landed on me.  There is a worrisome trend here in the US (and worldwide for that matter) over the past forty years of rich folk getting richer and impoverishing and immiserating the less fortunate to do so.  

The news media doesn’t really show the day to day.  They like idolizing rich folks because they pay the bills.  They like their disasters big so that they can get folks to tune in and watch other peoples misery in a closed ecosystem so that the misery appears to be transient.  The news media is in the entertainment business and they realize saleable product.  More importantly they know where their checks come from.  The media is class conscious.  They are bourgeois first and foremost and their loyalty to the boogies is unquestioned.

So you have to go out trolling the whackadoodle sites.  This is where the people who are deemed surplus to a failing economy and don’t understand how the world is a’ changin’ go.  Since I have a sneaking hunch that they will be the majority soon in an putative democracy I think that, unpleasant as it is and despite any “triggers” that you will have pulled, it is an important part of living in the here and now.

Ya see, you have to always take the time to hear things.  All things.  Even if you don’t think that they are true.  Because sometimes the truth comes out in the oddest ways.  Examples of this are rife in your life, mine today came in a e-mail conversation about numbers and atonal music and 𝞹 and math and meaning.  17 might just be onto something.  From Chesterson’s “Orthodoxy”

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good.  It is full of wild and wasted virtues.. . and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage.  The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad.  The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.