Resonates

When I was doing a series on cipher machines I used a 1917 article on ciphering as a source. The article was in Everybody’s Magazine, a popular literary and cultural mag that’s now forgotten. The same volume included a huge pile of anti-German propaganda, which was required by Wilson’s Deepstate to sustain our participation in a crazy and pointless war.

Less typically, the magazine tried to explore the REAL impact of the war, without quite saying that it was insane and monstrous. They wanted the readers to “help” find a new direction.

Here’s part of the Everybody’s article, which resonates well with the current dubiously postwar period.

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Never before has so large a part of the human race thought so long and so hard about one thing at one time, and that thing a reconstruction of life, a realinement of human institutions and the human spirit. The very volume of the answers, the thought, the hope, the demand which the question of the future has brought forth, is a guarantee of some change, and it is going to be one of the largest and most difficult factors in whatever changes take place. In this department of the magazine we are going to touch and test and reveal to our readers something of the direction and force of this current as it is reflected in this country and in Europe, and to seek in it some foothold for faith and prophecy.

The answers we have had thus far for the most part have been products of the flame and agony of war, a misty pageant of hope, desire, dogma, theory, revolt — a nebulous chaos without substance, without strength except strength of will and passion. To some the future is a dark forest, to others a Socialistic millenium; to some a prospect of an endless succession of war and strife; to others a golden age of eternal peace and universal democracy. Other men of advanced years we have heard say simply that they are glad they will not live to see the only future they can imagine.

The key is already in the hands of every one who has opened his eyes and mind to the things that have transpired around him since the war began, who has kept in touch with the facts and the movement of men’s spirit during the past generation. The key to the future is not a matter of prophecy, but one of close observation and diagnosis.

Nothing will come out of the war that was not in it. The changes to come are going on under our noses; they have been observable since the beginning of the century; the war has merely quickened a tendency long developing.

Write us fully, frankly, fearlessly your ideas on the world after the war. Tell us what the war has done to you, what changes it has made in your outlook upon life, and specifically in your ideas about our economic, social and political institutions. Be as clear, be as concrete, be as definite and as sincere as the great question demands. Everything you say will be weighed and studied. As much of it as space permits will be printed here.

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1919 had one advantage over the current postwar. The Armistice was a DEFINITE END to WW1, an official switch to something new.

For Wilson, the something new was something old. He returned to working WITH the Krauts to obliterate Russia.

Harding changed the narrative. He was firmly antiwar. He started dismantling Wilson’s tyrannical agencies and halted the invasion of Russia. He also started working with the Social Economics types and the unions to clamp down on the monopolists and bankers. FDR carried all of these tendencies to completion, transforming the government from a problem generator to a problem solver.

Observable since the beginning of the century is certainly true of this dubiously postwar period. The current permanent war mode started with Bush Senior in 1990, who restored our permanent invasion of Russia yet again. Bush Junior expanded the insanity to a permanent invasion of Muslim lands, and started planning for the “virus” war which was implemented by Trump. Between those two events, Bush Junior gave us QE and ZIRP to enable his monstrosities.

We don’t have an Armistice. The NAZI obliteration of Russia has expanded exponentially. The “virus” warriors are paused, but still agitating for permanent NAZI TORTURE. The only controlling factor is Jerome Powell, who has resolutely blocked the infinite counterfeit and zero interest that made infinite war easier.

So far I don’t see a Harding figure, an ordinary practical man who tries to restore ordinary practical life based on real communities and real business and real productive manufacturing. Again Vivek is a contender, but again I don’t sense enough “substance”. I could be wrong.