A specter haunting
America and its skull
Wears a tricorne hat.
The Empowered Fear the “Powerless”
A specter is haunting[1] America, wearing a tricorne hat.
We must never forget the horrific wars
of the Twentieth Century (the "American Century") during which socialist states, such as Nazi Germany,
the Soviet Union and Red China, killed over a hundred million disarmed men,
women and children. Americans stood firm and by Century's end humanity thought there would be a respite during the new
millennium, after the never-to-be-lamented USSR collapsed and Red China was
forced to allow market forces which raised the living standards of a quarter of
humanity, despite the false ideology the CCP continues to profess.
That respite was short lived as a renewed
global “Empowered Elite” arose from the very successes of the triumphant global
capitalist market. Those newly “woke” Empowered value power so much that they
are willing to use any claimed crisis to achieve one goal: global central planning to “rationalize” the
unpredictable results of the worldwide free market. Control is the goal of
plutocrats and bureaucrats alike.
However, consider that today there are
more scientists and engineers working on this planet than the total population
of just a few centuries ago. Consider
the accelerating pace of innovation and change.
We are ever closer to that ‘singularity’ when technological change
happens at an ever faster pace. Unpredictably.
Those Empowered who believe they rule
the world are afraid of innovation.
Change is a threat to their sinecures and their government-guaranteed
profits. Their corporations and
institutions are at risk when human action brings about new associations, inventions,
structures and concepts.
How are the Empowered likely to respond?
The obvious choice of these “elites”, as
expressed through their governments, international agencies and
“nongovernmental” organizations, is to frighten
people with horrifying tales of ersatz global environmental catastrophizes
or pseudo-pandemic diseases. Then,
there’s always a war or two...
Fear
is followed by tyranny.
Whether they are telling us we must give
up our prosperity for the sake of some previous state of the ever-changing environment
or telling us we must give up all our personal freedom, including Informed
Consent, to “flatten the curve” of a novel disease which will, no matter what,
run its course, their use of state power to preserve Empowered wealth is
obvious.
Yet
for every action there is an opposite reaction. Their attempt
here is to reverse the past three hundred years of greater freedom; centuries
during which the tyrannies of chattel slavery, government-controlled religion
and belief, the “legal infirmities” of women, and government trade monopolies
were all abolished, after millennia of subjugation and repression.
And it certainly looked as though they
were succeeding in reversing centuries of progress (in the name of
“progressivism” – as usual, Aesopian reversal of meanings to hide the one vital
question: who benefits?).
Then,
after a year of harmful lockdowns, meaningless masking and dangerous vaccine mandates
people began to resist. The “woke”
attempt to break the open society and the nuclear family went too far...
Starting in March of 2021 a series of
World Wide Demonstrations developed. At
first, every other month on the third Saturday. In March people in 90 countries
and 150 cities demonstrated; in May a 150 countries and 300 cities; in July,
nearly every non-totalitarian country, hundreds of cities. Then people started
demonstrating every Saturday, in thousands of cities and towns. Then truckers
formed caravans demanding a return to an open society. We saw a hasty retreat by the Empowered as
lockdowns and masking disappeared and as cracks formed in the vaccine mandates;
and so the resistance continues. People are becoming aware of the threat to our
universal right of Informed Consent. Similarly tens of thousands are joining local political party committees, while irate parents are attending schoolboard, library and council meetings in unprecedented numbers.
People
are rising up against Empowered Tyranny.
Throughout the world, and especially in
Europe and the English-speaking nations, there is a growing uprising by men in
the prime of life who are viewed by the Empowered as powerless and unnecessary to
consider. They are the “deplorables”. Men’s groups, active clubs, fathers’
groups and the like are becoming politicized. Men seek to protect their spouses
and children. They seek to protect their
livelihood.
At the same time the mothers of the world
are rising up, to protect their families and children. The World Wide Demonstrations bring together
all liberty-loving people, demanding freedom of choice and Informed Consent.
But it may very well be the numerous
men’s groups, arising throughout the Western World that pose the greatest
threat to the Empowered, and thus the greatest hope for humanity.
It
is the specter of a newly awakened masculinity that most frightens the
Empowered.
This return to manliness is against a
background of severe depletion of testosterone levels among many Western men,
caused by feminizing hormones in the environment, and as recently revealed, by
certain “vaccines” that have been mandated
in direct violation of Informed Consent.
What
are these men’s groups? They are voluntary private associations.
They are independent fraternities in the original meaning of
the word: brotherhoods. The ancient bonds of brotherhood among men in
towns and rural communities, where the members of the “Mannerbund” (men’s
group) helped each other in various ways: by “raising” a barn or responding to
the “hue and cry” to defend the community from invasion or wrong-doing, or
otherwise acting from their common bond.
Sometimes such groups have an overt
political quality: consider the Sons of Liberty of the 1760’s for example:
drinking clubs that sparked a revolution.
Other times they have a religious quality, and there are many such
confraternities. The Masons and Shriners can be considered as hybrid groups.
So can the Democrat Party’s thugs, once
the white-hooded KKK, more recently the black-hoodied BLM. The (G)OP, America’s
other ruling party, is not much better. Except for the Greens and Libertarians
no American political party supports the universal right of Informed Consent.
In the past decade there has been a growth of voluntary associations among working family men in the United States; among plumbers, electricians, craftsmen, contractors, builders, among others. An example is the Proud Boys, with their nearly libertarian, explicitly pro-free speech, anti-racist and pro-free market beliefs (all adult men are welcomed, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion or adult sexual preference).
Throughout especially Eastern Europe and North America, and to a lesser extent Australia and New Zealand, younger men are
forming “crews” or Active Clubs where they mix nationalist ideals with physical
training, including hiking, mountaineering, boxing, wrestling and the like. They
are bonding as men in a society that denigrates their capacities. They engage
in what some have called “tribe and train” forging bonds of mutual respect.
“Tagging” walls, posting stickers, or “banner
drops” (holding flags and banners with slogans on bridges over busy highways)
and the use of social media to spread their ideas is an integral part of the
activities of such groups. Many are attracted by the strong ties of brotherhood
that collaborative human action engenders.
We
are at the start of a growing revolution, the results of which we cannot yet
predict. What can be said is that a growing number of men are collaborating
with the goal of reasserting their natural liberty.
[1]
Marx and Engels used this phrase to describe the threat of Revolution in the
1848 Communist Manifesto; V. Haval
use the same phrase to begin his 1979 critique of Communist power in Eastern
Europe, The Power of the Powerless. Here we refer to the uprising, primarily of
Western men, resisting the Global Socialist Tyranny which certain corporate,
government and academic empowered “elites” seek to impose.
