This entire trial is becoming a microcosm of Current Year America. Total abdication of responsibility by the state, by authorities from top to bottom, to maintain its monopoly on violence and keep basic civic order...
The vacuum is filled by ANTIFA biotrash trying to burn it all down and the only thing in their way are a handful of CivNat chuds with ARs who, albeit naively, walk into the conflagration on the assumption that their good intentions will be met in the manner it is intended...
The weak link, the lame deer at the back of the herd, a kid who serves pancakes at the VFW for the fire-department, is hunted down by schizoid pedo criminals and losers, and as a desperate last resort defends himself...
And what is his reward? The entire chattering class and every power center in America treating him like a domestic terrorist mass-shooter, online intellekshuals, who did NOTHING themselves to stop the state from letting American cities go up in smoke all summer...
These equivocating, mealy mouthed pundits, even those somewhat sympathetic, mewling about "state lines" and "irresponsibility..."––You are GHEY!––And now Redditor tag-team DAs, faux-hawk Binger and Big Boy, trying to hang the kid on violating Longhouse propriety...
Rittenhouse is a hero. He is a symbol, in word and deed, and in his baseless persecution, of what is good and decent and courageous and the forces arrayed against those qualities. May a million Kyle Rittenhouse's bloom.
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The first part of this is the more straightforward one. @jamespoulos has talked about this. We have transitioned from the age of televisual fantasy to the age of perfect digital memory. Perfect memory means that everything is immediately available, everywhere and always
This saps the urgency for artistic creation. Whatever spiritual hunger drives the need to create, to explain and explore the world and its metaphysics, is sated freely and immediately, on demand. This resource glut has the effect of any resource glut--complacency and torpor
This happened in the early days of social media. Search Le Roy New York. Head cheerleader of a high school spontaneously develops turrets. Pretty soon half the girls in the school have it. A remarkable case study in mass psychogenic illness.
I remember these girls being interviewed by Dr Drew on CNN, spasming and twitching. All very funny in hindsight. After the Dr. Drew interview, cases at the school doubled. They blamed it on some mystery abuser, toxins in the water, maybe a bad batch of HPV vax
At some point the school principle banned phones from school. Parents were encouraged to keep their kids off of social media. By spring, cases plateaus and by graduation every last one of these girls was cured.
They just needed to log off. There’s a very important lesson there.
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Another very good interview with Michael Anton at @im_1776. Anton covers a ton of ground including a useful clarification of the difference between his views and BAP’s. This is essential reading.
Anton is absolutely right about the absence of right-wing culture networks and why the left so thoroughly dominates the arts
The right has no idea the extent to which culture is subsidized by left wing largesse. They only see the end points. Hollywood and TV but neglect the expansive infrastructure of endowments and fellowships, often laundered via academia, that supports artistic development
There was a time, maybe ten years ago, when you would’ve been forgiven for insisting that right-wing lunatics calling various lefty social movements psyops and conspiracies were perhaps directionally correct but wrong on the details…
“This can’t be top down! Occam’s razor! Hanlon’s razor!” They might have said.
But it is by now beyond any doubt the most cynical explanations are the most parsimonious, the most coherent, and supported by the preponderance of hard evidence.