Facebook’s Digital Reign of Terror The desire to support your candidate is understandable. The failure to understand that your opponents will fight back is not. Right now more than half of the population is inundated with YouTube accounts of videos being demonetized, accounts being frozen, or deleted entirely. The same things are happening across the social media spectrum. At Google, it is actively firing employees who do what Google asks them to do if the response does not meet the far progressive leftist goals of the Google Star-chamber. More below. Believing they have the right to take these actions comes from long years of doing as they please. But the actions are angering the moral and political sensibilities of well more than half of the population. The only available comparison is to look back and remember what happened to the German American Bund. Nazi Summer Camps In 1930s America? What makes the current tech pogrom against liberty so awful is it is not solely focused on the Republican Party, it is an anti-liberty, anti-civil rights, anti-conservative, anti-libertarian/classical liberal, and anti-Republican Party movement. The tech industry has set itself up as the new Tech American Bund which supports the modern fascist equivalent of the Nazi Party. I suspect that the Tech American Bund will continue to undermine civil rights right up to the point we have the serious war, and that is an increasingly obvious outcome of the current political status. How the war will start is unclear just as it was unclear how, or even whether, the Revolutionary, Civil wars, or WWII would start. It could be triggered by the Trump tariffs, or it could start spontaneously in the Middle East, the North Korean kerfuffle could go sideways, or something else we are not even aware of today could suddenly spring into conflict. Every 80 years, like clockwork we have a massive, existential war. I cannot see why or how we would avoid it this time. The last three are 1776, 1860 (84 years), and 1941 (81 years). It will be 80 years after 1941 in 2021. Sometime between now and the middle of the 2020s, I expect the US will be engaged in an existential total war. Not a war like the Gulf War 100 hours then mop-up and go home. No, this will be a dire war, like the Civil War, or WWII. The tech companies need to reevaluate what they are doing. There is little benefit of playing the role of the Tech American Bund in this go round. If they continue in this vein, I expect the outcomes for them will be much like the outcomes for the German American Bund, the pro-slavery contingent in the North after the Civil War, or the British Loyalist contingent in the new United States of America. These wars are always for the same reason, Americans are fighting to free themselves or others from the yoke of authoritarianism, despotism, collectivism, fascism, socialism and the like. Today, one side in this battle, the side upon which the classical liberals, the libertarians, the conservatives, and the Republicans fight is on the side of liberty. The opponents are in leige with the dark forces of collectivist socialism, progressivism, fascism, and intolerance. The goal of these people is not liberty, but the subjugation of all others to their hive mind ideology. History does not repeat but it rhymes on an 80-year cycle. The video below shows the toddler hive mind that these "law students" possess. They cannot even remember a handful of simple chants, and so the "leader" must read them off of her phone. The zombies can only repeat the phrase. They are unwilling to engage in debate even though offered because they do not have the intellectual capacity to engage in debate. They can but chant. Living here in the anti-civil rights dystopia of Portlandia, it is clear that the progressives believe they will prevail should the culture wars come to a head. Neither side is willing to accept that actual conflict could result. The progressives think that because the Boomer spiritual awakening/consciousness revolution (1967-1984), and the GenX culture wars (1984-2007) have moved us from the dutiful, civic-minded great building phase (1946-1966), that we can not go back. This misunderstands the great wheel of history, and what it accomplishes with each turning.
The great building phase occurs after a crisis phase, the last was from 1929-1945, (we are now in the middle of the current crisis phase, awaiting only the concluding war). The buiding phase creates a strong need for national order in order to create and build an entirely new national and world order. Building requires concerted civic effort and is somewhat sterile and focused on the task at hand. The following generation once it becomes about 25 years of age, rebels against the sterility of the building phase and triggers a spiritual awakening, the last one was called the Consciousness Revolution and replaced most of the spirituality with drug abuse, and myopic self-absorption. The next generation again rebels against the excessive spirituality causing the myriad spiritual shards created in the spiritual awakening to begin to curdle and rot. This triggers a great cultural war for power between these rotting, curdling cultural shards. This iteration of the culture wars were called identity politics and sought to aggregate everyone into cultural identities which could be termed oppressors or oppressed. Obama did a great disservice the nation by doubling down on the culture wars in 2009-2016, dragging the country back for a double dip into this cesspit. For this, his legacy deserves to be in tatters, notwithstanding the grave damage he did to the rest of the world. Although we spent the last eight years in a culture wars time warp, we also moved into the next phase, the crisis phase in 2008 with the great asset devaluation, and the Great Recession. Obama doubled down here as well just as FDR double down during the last crisis by regulating, legislating and bloviating the US into the Great Depression. FDR was instrumental along with the Federal Reserve Bank in deepening and lengthening the Great Depression which should never have been more than a harsh recession. Obama was equally instrumental in regulating, legislating and bloviating the 2008 recession into the Great Recession. Booyah, Obama, booyah! We are now about halfway through the crisis phase, at this time during the last crisis we were just about to enter WWII, although no one would have predicted that outcome. America was staunchly isolationist after the disaster of WWI. But on a fateful day, November 7, 1941, all of that changed, and America became the 900 lb belligerent in the war. We won the war, not by fighting, but by arming everyone who was willing to fight on our side, even the Russian victory relied on American food, fuel, aircraft, railway cars, steel, trucks, jeeps, arms, and ammunition. Without the endless shipments of American goods and war materiel, the Russians, and even the British would be speaking German. So, we will have war; it now seems inevitable. After the war, exhausted, we will dutifully come together to begin constructing the new American, and world orders. If the war is foreign, we will offer to provide money and materials necessary for the world to rebuild. If the war is civil, we will do the same where necessary. From there the next great building phase will begin, and we will have a generation of hard-won peace, and prosperity. The young Millennials of today will be entering middle age by then, and they will reap the rewards of success. But after about 20 years, the next generation will emerge as adults and will trigger a new spiritual awakening, in rebellion to the sterility of the great building phase's need for national order, and dutiful civic effort. I suggest that this time the ebullience of this spiritual awakening be tempered by the older adults. You must let it happen, but if it is allowed its head, it will trigger yet another profoundly destructive awakening and cannibalistic culture wars phase. These phases need moderation to let the cycle to continue but to be tempered sufficiently that they remain productive and do not become cannibalistic.
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