The Die Is Cast

We live in a time of incoherence. 

War is peace and all that.

The West has lost all sense of itself. It has no 'there, there'. It's just a hut of ranting raving lunacy. 

No God, no faith, no reason. 

In one of the great works of Western philosophy and theology, St. Thomas Aquinas brought together faith and reason by synthesizing Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy arguing that faith and reason are harmonious and complementary paths to truth. Christianity became the soul of Europe. 

The Age of Reason disgorged faith from reason. 

And we've been facing the consequences of this fall out ever since.

A couple of weeks back, Margaret Brennan of Face the Nation made a remarkable and startling claim in an interview with Marco Rubio stating that free speech caused the Holocaust. Rubio hit back with a strong rebuttal rooted in basic facts. Not conjecture or revisionism. Just basic facts. 

Facts and truths that governed us in the post-war era. No one ever said Nazi Germany was a bastion of free speech and that it led to a death machine.

Ever.

Why? Because it wasn't true. 

JD Vance triggered controversy when he expressed concern that Europe was turning illiberal and hostile to free speech. 

It's the USA vs. the world. 

And the world is on the wrong side. 

It's not the USA who changed. They're reverting back to the essence of their mission: Liberty.

It's the world that has disengaged itself from "Pax Americana' by embracing wholly illiberal and collectivist attitudes and policies. It has no sense of its own existence anymore as it spirals evermore and deeper into authoritarianism and tyranny.

Unfortunately, this includes Canada which has decidedly took a turn for the worse missing that turn at Albuquerque.

Not that the U.S. is not without its own demons. The response from the American media and left was to run to Germany and run a piece on 60 Minutes about how Germany is arresting people for "hate speech" and meme sharing. Just 20, maybe even 15 years ago, we would have al recoiled at such outward aggression by the state on its own citizens free to express their opinions.

Now? People are slowly marinating in a spit of complete illiberalism and slowly accepting it.

More and more we're tearing at the seams. What's worse is that there are no ties that bind us anymore.

We're in the civil war. It has begun.

The sheer madness and determination to continue the Ukraine war is reminiscent of how the same catatonic mindset gripped Europeans heading into WWI. 

And like then, the power of propaganda is prevailing.

No God, no faith, no reason.

People who put God first saw what was happening in WWI was doomed to end in human catastrophe. The same people saw the Nazis coming.

But march on the Primrose Path we must because reasons.

Notice how the biggest proponents of war don't volunteer to go and fight themselves. If Ukraine is the last line for democracy and freedom (it's not) then go fight, no? Money where your cheap mouths are.

The Domino Theory is one helluva hallucinogenic. I'm not going to get into the weeds of Putin, Ukraine and NATO here. I've already tackled that. 

But then I saw this.

It involves low information far left dope Charlie Angus. What's remarkable here isn't just the language of a sitting MP (imagine if a conservative acted this way) but the abject sheer toxic ignorance on display. Angus is a poster child for modern illiberalism. He set up a petition to have Musk stripped of his Canadian citizenship which currently stands at 328 000. Which goes to show Canadians are miseducated authoritarians at heart. 

All because they disagree with someone. That's all that's about. It's not rooted in principles. It's rooted in animus hate.

Angus goes straight for the typical left tactic are accusing people who disagree with him as fascist. It's lazy and it's, well, stupid.

Low hanging fruit. A Jimmy Kimmel specialty. 

He mentions how his grandfather fought fascists.

Except the problem with this is that Ukraine in the war embraced Nazism and Nazism was aligned with fascism. Conversely, Russia - the Soviet Union under Stalin - was communist. All collectivist ideologies to be sure bur fascism never took root in Russia nor under Putin.

Bur somehow Putin is a fascist and you're a fascist for daring to question the West's position on the war.

There's no there, there.

It's Calvin Ball history. 

When the French Revolution took a decidedly illiberal turn under the Jacobins it unleashed a torrent of paranoia and violence. The bloodshed in the countryside was so grotesque the roads were tattered with corpses victims of the Reign of Terror. It was conducted with such fervour there was no way to stem it with reason or logic.

It just petered out on its own.

No God, no faith, no reason.

We're swimming very much in those same waters. 

Covid was a warning shot. The dividing of humans along non-essential/essential and vaccinated unvaccinated with the full force of the state taking sides removing cviil liberties from those who dissented came within whiskers of sending people to camps en masse. Quarantine camps were set up but only an unfortunate view had to witness it. But make no mistake the camps were in place.The population was more than primed and ready to sniff out and snitch on each other.

We were there.

And in some way still are.

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Who are the patriots and who are the traitors?

Are people who questioned the irrational Covid response and worried about the negative consequences on not just on the overall health of people but on our collective civil liberties 'traitors?' 

The truckers were a response to not only aggressive mandates that were taken farthest in Canada than any country in the West but the sense that the government wasn't going to relinquish any of the power that came with it. In fact, they were signalling that they were prepared to go further still.

Flag waving then was a symbol of hate and division when it was nothing of the sort.

People will react in those circumstances. 

But the media and government did a masterful job of misrepresenting the facts and sometimes even lying outright to paint the truckers as enemies of the state.

In reality, they were driven by love of country. They correctly identified that we lost civil liberties likely never to return. 

A new precedent and baseline was set. It needed to be challenged.

Still needs to.

The authorities were wrong. None of it was rooted in rational science. It was scientism in the service of politics. 

Now the spin is those who side with Trump and want Canada to become a 51st state are traitors and that those who follow the authority of the state are patriots.

They got it backwards.

Patriotism flows bottom up. People are being told to close ranks like during Covid and that the "impure" threaten them. It's top-down patriotism. 'Buy Canada' is a by-product of the top-down approach. It's not organic. Organic Canadian patriotism was the convoy. Just look at how many Canadians turned out on the highways and overpasses while the convoy rolled towards Ottawa. It was genuine. 

People who witnessed it felt it. 

But "existential threats".

Divide and conquer.

We're in this together.

Ca va bien aller.

Continuons.

The Pavlovians have been told the Americans a predatorial threat but not China who actually are engaged in our affairs. We're both a colony of America and China at the same time.

We're enslaved subjects. Not free citizens. We can't identify an external threat properly we've become so thoroughly propagandized about Donald Trump. 

Again, people are pointing out that real threats are coming from within Canada. Trump is just pointing out and exploiting our weaknesses.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. 

People with a sober bent can see that this is not so much about annexation as it's a light being shine on the fact that Canada is in serious trouble.

Apparently this is enough to be labelled a traitor.

I don't see a political solution to this.

This is as much an emotional fracture as it is ideological. 

The trenches have been dug. There's no bridging this.

No olive branches.

Just a matter of time the lions clash with the prey. 

It's cynical but it's the story of history and human nature. We've been fortunate until now.

Especially Canada.

What makes us think that such blessings is going to last forever? 

We failed in the eternal vigilance part.

Now we must lie the bed we made.

The Die Is Cast.