kingtycoon | The City on the Hill Burns To Guide Us Through Darkness (Reply)

There's been some intensity. I guess. I think about how I was uninvolved in 9/11 - how it was very dramatic & I wanted to keep hearing about what was happening but that I... Didn't care. Wasn't surprised. Didn't care, not in a callous way - I think that's important to bring up, point out, repeat. Not a failure of my empathy not that at all. I have hat - it's just people being killed & terrorized for pointless useless reasons - that's actually terrible - I always remember. But I think, I respect the wickedness of ideologiies. I know full well that there are bad ideas that affect people & I know about those ideas - I'm informed about the psychic state of affairs, I'm in tune with the ghost-of-our-time. So... All elipses always.

Think on this. I'm coming home from new job, driving in the western PA drizzel ,the eastern OHio drizzel, over spooky bridges, over hills & down to the flatlands, the glacial till plain. Coming home & there's the radio. I'm 10 years out of having a car. That's where you listn ot the radio, hear the news. Curated news, the radio, speakers - the newspeple. You get to hear them describe the fall ofthe congress, the breach in the arcane rites that one is meant to reverence. They're heartbroken on NPR. I find myself laughing at these nerds. Pitiful news-nerds. Reverential toward nonsense rituals, they love traditions & norms. They wouldn't be in those places reading the news to people if they didn't have the reverence. A lot of people need to care about what they're trained to care about. I think that's true of most caring. You're taught to believe that the country is important & are trained to love it. You're trained to experience events within it as good or bad - irrespective of their material impact upon your life. These are the people who get jobs reading the news, or carrying fancy chests full of ballots to ceremonially count. They see the world around them freighted with religious significance. That thins matter & are true. This is what the ruling classes will always accept because they have to believe that something virtuous has placed them in their posiiton - else it would not be virtuous & they're merely riding on the backs of everyone else.

So if the state should fail? WHat's true is that it's more evident than ever before in my time that state exists purely to serve us to the capitol, our lives & efforts down to the blood and bone exist, so far as the USA is concerned, to be fed to the furnaces & turned into money for the already fabulously rich. This is clearer & clearer with the congress' actions. It's no good seeing the credulous dolts get stirred up, antagonistic & violent - that's no good at all. But the congress has painted the target on themselves, the state has asked for sedition with its treatment of people and now? THe credulous dolts only need the barest provocations. So there it is, how it happens. I'm not sentimental about this country. I don't care if it's destroyed. It's only nw a barrier between what is to come & I have little hope that it'll be a barrier to worse outcomes. So the plan remains to prepare to live without the state. Right? Right?