Premodern Barbarism
We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. All accept that defunding the police, no-cash bail, Soros-funded district attorneys, and radical changes in jurisprudence have destroyed deterrence. Infractions we treat as lifestyle choices. Billions of dollars spent on social services for the lawbreaking at the expense of the American poor?Would 100,000 annual lethal overdoses—12 times more than those who died over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined—from drugs that flow across the open border sway them? Today, our identity politics leaders believe that the color of our skin, not the content of our character, certainly matters more.
Postmodern Abyss
Postmodernism in our age is deadlier even than premodernism. Many suffer from prolonged adolescence. The stereotyping of poor and middle-class white males as both raging and biased, and yet expected yet to fight and die in misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, has finally convinced the parents of these 18-year-olds to say, “no more.”Need we say anything about the lack of efficacy or morality of the Department of Justice, FBI, or CIA?Or rather is there anything the FBI will not do?Doctor court evidence? Monitor parents at school board meetings? Allow directors to lie under oath or “misremember” before Congress?Swiping clean subpoenaed phones? Keep that in mind and almost every publicly uttered nonsense from our highest in the Pentagon makes perfect sense.
Our enemies—illiberal, deadly, and vengeful—have concluded we are more effective critics of ourselves than are they. Notice how even the communists long ago dropped deadly Maoist wokeism, or how the Russians viewed the Soviet commissariat as antithetical to their military and economic agendas.)Iran believes that this present generation of Americans would likely allow it to nuke Israel rather than stop its proliferation. It was not earthquakes, floods, or even pandemics. Instead our catastrophe arose from our most highly educated, the wealthiest and most privileged in American history with the greatest sense of self-esteem and sanctimoniousness. And then the few sowed the wind, and so the many now reap their whirlwind.
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