At a commencement speech delivered this past weekend at Howard University, a famous, historically black college, President Biden once again raised the specter of “white supremacy”, affirming his eerie practice of scapegoating on the basis of race in our nation’s political discourse. According to Biden, “[T]he most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.” Never before in American history has a mainstream-party politician — much less a sitting president of the United States — ever so publicly resorted to a textbook tactic of totalitarian leaders worldwide. Joe Biden is now sounding this trope with almost every speech, in the early run-up to the 2024 national elections. Certainly, this is a portentous, frankly ominous, sign for the future of politics in America, based on the world’s history in the last century or so. This short review is highly instructive:
In apartheid-era South Africa (1948-1994), leaders of the ruling National Party regularly warned white voters of die swart gevaar (“the black peril”) as a means of scaring them into voting Nationalist instead of for either the United Party or the Progressive Party, both of which supported extending the voting franchise in varying degrees beyond just white people to citizens who were black or brown in skin color. The overwhelming majority of whites voted accordingly, rendering South Africa a virtual parliamentary dictatorship of one party and one white ethnicity (the Afrikaners). Throughout the age of apartheid, there were many governmental abuses of power, against not only blacks, Indians, and Coloreds (mixed-race people of partial white descent) but also whites who would not fully, completely conform to all of the strictures of “separate development.” The certain, increasing minority in the country over time of white South Africans overall, the economic and social pressures of increasing international sanctions, growing violence by and among blacks in their residential townships, and a changing consciousness among some elements of the Afrikaner elites all conspired in the late 1980s to move the National Party leadership to begin dismantling the edifices of racial separation — and thereby avoid a race-based war of catastrophic proportions. While post-1994 South Africa has had, and continues to have, many problems, including some dealing with race and language, a readily looming, internecine civil war is not one of them at this time.
In the America of today, given that the leaders of the Democratic Party — substantially in control of all national political power and vitally aided in remaining so by all of Big Media, Big Tech, Big Banking, Big Corporate, Big Academia, Big Culture, and the Deep State — is demonizing the majority demographic of the domestic populace, can an independent and sovereign republic dedicated to individual rights, equality, the universal rule of law, and federalism survive much longer? It remains to be seen, but through the lens of history the prospects seem rather dim.
In late April 2023, NBC’s Chuck Todd interviewed the young Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy (Harvard B.S., Biology; Yale Law School) and challenged his contention that there are only two real genders, claiming that scientific research now shows that gender is actually a “spectrum.” Vivek replied that they’d have to agree to disagree on that. Very cordial of him, to be sure, as a presidential aspirant, but the opportunity to make a much more important point was missed.
Leave it to fellow mid-30s female pundit Lisa Boothe to make that key point for him on May 1st on FOX’s morning show Outnumbered. Here’s what she said, in substance, after viewing the Todd/Vivek video clip, to the stunned silence of her three fellow female commenters and their male guest, a basketball celeb originally from Turkey:
This is about the Truth, the fight for the Truth. There are two genders, no more. This is a test for submission for the Left. If they can get people to accept demonstrable lies, deny basic biology, then they can get you to submit to anything. They own you, and society is then under their control. They will always try to silence you if you speak the Truth. They want us to live in fear of them. But don’t fear them, don’t submit to them. Speak out. Speak the Truth. Resist.
Lisa Boothe, courtesy of Business Insider
Out of the mouth of babes, both literally and figuratively! Thus and so, there’s genuine hope for the preservation of Individual Liberty and Autonomy in America when folks have the moral courage to speak out with crystal clarity and honesty. Long ago, George Orwell succinctly nailed it in several famous quips, thusly:
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent [people] is the restatement of the obvious.
Every sane, sober-minded person hopes and prays that’s all it will ever take to right our ship of state and preserve America as a sovereign, independent nation and home to a freedom-focused constitutional republic!
In the cosmic science of Astrology, Pluto, the furthest planetary orb in our solar system, represents the forces of transformation and purification. With a periodicity of 246 years, it moves around the Zodiac rather slowly, affecting the Earth, and so represents generational changes that potentially span decades. As such, it affects all people on the planet simultaneously and profoundly. The Age of Leo (1939-57), for example, witnessed World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, the electronics revolution, synthetic pharmaceuticals, space exploration, the end of Britain and France’s empires, and the emergence of the United States as the architect and prime leader of a new world order, economically, militarily, and culturally. Among many other new emergences.
In March/April 2023, Pluto began to tentatively touch the Age of Aquarius, but not making its first foray until February 2024 and continuing through August 2024. It returns to Aquarius in December 2024 and continues its sojourn there until March 2043, making for a relatively long visit.
So, what of it? If Capricorn, its preceding age, has to do with disruptions, revelations, and reformations concerning institutional authorities (such as governments, churches, academia, and corporations), wars and rumors of war, and social/economic systems – all of which, as of this writing, are still bubbling very vigorously – Aquarius will be characterized by innovations of truly unique natures, at once utopian and very possibly foreboding, across the spectrum of spheres of human experience. Many of us see a lot of this happening already, often with a knowing discomfiture. Such is the nature of revolutionary times.
So, what does this all look like? Technologically, we are witnessing the embryonic ascendancy of creative artificial intelligence, highly novel in its results but unconstrained by any set, pre-delimited protocols that govern its behavior. Writing cogent term papers and optimizing nee-business-opportunity options is one thing, but making decisions with palpable, immediate moral consequences for real human beings is quite another. Even famed innovator-entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of AI’s originators, has expressed serious concerns in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson about the prospects of AI applications untethered to scruples or moral constraints.
Equally ominous is the mad drive towards transhumanism, marrying natural biological reality with any of biochemical and bioengineered alterations, surgical modifications, and cybernetic implants. The Chinese communists are believed to have been working on creating super soldiers, human men endowed with superhuman physical strength, endurances, and enhanced perceptual abilities, all aimed at creating indomitable fighting machines.
Most immediately concerning, however, is the impending realization of the total surveillance state, enabled by a dystopian witches’ brew of currency digitization, ubiquitous camera systems in public, comprehensive social-credit scoring on all inhabitants (available to governmental agencies and private entities such as banks and educational institutions), and even implantable genetic markers and radio-frequency identification chips. Such a state will allow greater and dynamic micro-control of the nation’s civilian populace on a spectrum of matters, from gun ownership to vaccination penetration. The odium of an actual Brave New World is finally within our vision now.
The antidemocratic drives of America’s elites have been palpable for many years already, manifesting as the “cancel culture” (whose aim is the erasure of nonconforming thinking and values), identity politics (whose purpose is to alienate and divide the American people against one another based on immutable characteristics), and various social-engineering mandates (such as DEI, CRT, and CSE) in schools, colleges, and workplaces both public and private, civilian and military (all designed to morph the nation’s guiding culture from traditional Americanism to “wokeism”, an evolution of communism and globalism). In the name of combatting a phantom societal threat labelled as “white supremacy”, “white privilege”, or “white nationalism”, these elites are relentlessly demonizing all white Americans and European-sourced Western civilization. In a form of inverse intersectionality, the most execrable people according to their perverse worldview are those who are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian.
Of course, a person need not possess all of those features to be targeted for vilification: Blacks/browns, gays/lesbians, and Jews who espouse conservative, pro-America views publicly have all been targeted for vituperation. It’s just the honored communist way, after all, of transforming a nation’s consciousness against all enemies at the same time. Ane ages-old defect of every dictatorial regime, of course, is that the maw for chewing up rogues and renegades is never satisfied, ever more demanding new human sacrifices in the name of maintaining ideological purity. Rather like the insatiable-for-blood exotic plant from the stars, Audrey II, in the musical film, Little Shop of Horrors: There’s no such thing as enough mayhem.
So, the advent of a technological totalitarianism on a global basis is no longer just a febrile dream in the wild, fevered imaginations of a shrouded cohort of wealthy yet morally effete control freaks. Rather, it is the reification of an idea that appeals to a wide swath of avant-garde intellectuals, pioneering inventors, social-utopian activists, power-lusting politicians, and narcissistic film and major media celebrities – as well as the rich titans of banking, investment, industry, media, and entrepreneurism. As such, it’s a real specter of looming doom.
Overweening governmental control in the name of the globalist “One World” impulse or just the notion of the collectivist “common good” is ineluctably hostile to individual freedom, the essential objective of all republican and democratic states in the Western tradition. The potential for brilliance in the Age of Aquarius for innovation, uniqueness, and healthy, uplifting transformations must not be allowed to be eclipsed by the dark side of cold, unfeeling domination; a godless intellectual utopian idealism; and an elitism that denies the innate worth and dignity of Everyman and Everywoman.
