Jefferiad

Jeffrey Tucker writes a proper jeremiad. (Jefferiad?)

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Such “public health” measures were not even within the range of possibility outside the worst dystopian fiction. And yet it all happened in a flash, all with the assurance that The Science demanded it. None of the institutions on which we relied to stop such crazed experiments worked to stop it. The courts were closed, the traditions of liberty forgotten, the leadership of our institutions lacking in courage, and everyone and everything lost in a fog of disorientation and confusion.

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The worst dystopias NEVER anticipated universal strangulation. Hitler and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot didn’t strangle everyone, didn’t turn the ENTIRE WORLD into a torture chamber. All of them provided relatively normal life for people who weren’t “enemies of the state”.

Jeffrey still underestimates the unquenchable evil of our rulers. Leaders are not weak, they are 100% devils. All institutions have been ruthlessly selecting in the worst psychopaths and pushing out the inefficient killers for many years.

And he still believes in “rights”:

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The Victorian-era liberals warned us that civilization (there’s that word) is more fragile than we know. We have to believe in it and fight for it; otherwise it can be taken away in an instant. Once gone it is not easily restored.

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Nope. We believed and fought and it was stolen anyway. We voted and protested and did everything the monsters told us. The belief and the fight were part of the fraud.

On the other side, I think he underestimates the sanity and courage of the younger generation. Or half of it.

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And yet we cannot shake the reality that they know next to nothing about anything: history, civics, literature, much less anything truly technical. They never read books. None of their peers care either. Their career aspirations are to become an influencer, which leaves parents in the awkward position of recommending otherwise in times that seem to have changed so dramatically from when we grew up.

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Younger men, who have taken the brunt of the “rights” crusade for 40 years, are waking up. They are abandoning fraudulent college, abandoning fraudulent history and civics and literature, and taking up technical and physical trades**. Only the young women want to be influencers. Men know we don’t have any influence.

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** Personal note: I’m especially impressed by the work of the CenturyLink tech who installed the new fiberoptic system. His task included four disparate types of work. (1) He climbed a 30-foot ladder in three places to splice a new cable onto the ‘pigtail’ and run it toward the house. (2) He used a remarkably creative trick to run the cable along the side of the house invisibly with no clamps. (3) Inside the tight little house, he worked in the narrow space available, quickly and neatly, without disturbing anything. (4) When done he explained everything completely and clearly. He deserves to be proud of all four tasks, physical and artistic and technical and communicative.