“Winners always want the ball when the game is on the line.” – The Replacements
People keep wondering if the Bowling Alley Killer will strike again.
One of the freeing things about what’s going on in the world right now, especially with respect to the current breakdown of American (and perhaps Global) society is the fact that many are coming to one of the biggest realizations they’ll ever have: most people don’t care about us, and there’s probably no one that’s going to come and save us.
I remember the first time I came to that conclusion, that it was all on me. – I believe I was a sophomore in college, and realized that to the college, I was just a number measured in GPA and how much I had to pay beyond what my scholarship paid for. Sure, I had friends at school, and I do know that several professors liked me, but I was on my own. Well, with the exception of student loans: for a long time, I didn’t think I could ever figure out how to repay them.
Sink or swim, it was up to me. It was a cold winter day. I was having a beer with my roommate. I remember at him and saying, “No one really cares about us, do they?”
“Nope.”
Like I said, this was good news. I got to survive or thrive or fail based on my own efforts. This realization was a winner – my GPA actually went up afterwards, and it wasn’t all that horrible to begin with, though I hear the minimum GPA needed to go to USC is $500,000.00.
What’s another name for an adoption center? A stork market.
We are at that point in society as well. Many of the legacy institutions that were created by our forefathers are no longer in the business of serving actual American citizens who love freedom and have no idea how to have a complicated Starbucks™ order. Here’s a partial list:
- Immigration: Right now, ICE is on the side of the illegals streaming across the border. Not you. You can apply this to most government (both federal and big city) agencies. Disagree? Ask the January 6 Protestors if they think they got a fair deal from the DOJ and FBI. The only reason the FBI isn’t spelled KGB is because they don’t know Russian.
- Most Colleges: I can post academic after academic engaged in the vilest hate speech. Do they lose their jobs? Because it’s directed at you and me, which is okay and is covered under policy 364.3.d. But make a joke about a trans-GPA 4.0 student living in the body of a 2.0 student? That’s not allowed.
- The Military: The officers on the Right have been under attack since (at least) Obama. Good luck being promoted if you don’t agree with the Left. With things like illegal alien lesbian mom recruiting videos and mandatory Vaxxing, well, they’ve done their best to filter out people in the lower ranks, too. Thankfully the most reliable fighting force in the history of the United States is vaxxed illegal alien lesbians.
Just wait until she wants to talk to the manager.
- Most Government Schools: Yesterday, read a story about a history teacher that marked a student incorrect on the question, “All men have a penis (T/F)”. Apparently, this is now indoctrination that is deemed worthy of history class where I recall spending a lot of time talking about George Washington’s penis. Oh, wait, I never heard the word penis a single time in history, except when my teacher was talking about FDR. Today? They’re not on our side.
- Mainstream News Media: Without the Internet, there would be very little division in the country because The Narrative is agreed to by almost all (including Fox™) news organizations. Without the Internet, there would be exactly one opinion, and it would be presented in crayon.
- Mainstream Entertainment: Why does Disney® make movies for kids that their parents find to be objectionable? Because their investors don’t care – they have an agenda that goes beyond making money.
I could keep going on and on, but my laptop is running out of ink, and you already know all of this.
And, this is the good news: these institutions aren’t going to save us. They actively despise us and are doing everything they can to destroy us and erase us from memory. I mean, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the people on the Right ever created?
Did you know the Monty Python theme was written by someone from the United States? After all, nobody expects the American composition.
Like I said, that’s the good news.
Why? Because, just like I discovered in college, it should change everyone’s mindset. Our fate isn’t in their hands, but instead it’s in our hands. When I see people like Andrew Torba building out GAB™, I know that he’s out of the victim mentality, and is building a future that doesn’t depend on the Left. Vox Day is doing something similar with multiple initiatives, from his Arktoons® to Arkhaven Comics™ to Castalia House© (publishing) to Infogalactic© (Wikipedia® without the Leftist Overlords).
These institutions that people are actively creating show that they’re intent not on relying on the institutions that the Left has subverted, but instead on building their own. In truth, that’s the first step. The second is to make sure that the culture of each of these organizations that we’re creating is rooted in freedom and the ideology of the Right. Why?
Because any institution that isn’t explicitly Right becomes Leftist over time, as John O’Sullivan’s First Law states. O’Sullivan cited the ACLU™, the Ford Foundation© and the Episcopal Church.
Why? Since Leftists aren’t good at creating much besides starvation and misery, they look to insinuate themselves into institutions that others have made. And they don’t do it in a good way, building something new – no, they’re like termites, gradually eating away at everything they find until they end up destroying what they’ve infiltrated.
Do termites on a date order a table for two?
Then they blame those that built the institution they subverted in the first place for the failure.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
No, it’s time we take the future into our own hands and build the structures that we need. Homeschooling is one bright example of how the Right has built something out of the ashes of public schools. We’re building our own social networks, our own entertainment.
I want my ashes stored in a clear glass urn – I wonder if my family will like it? Remains to be seen.
We don’t need the Left – or what they produce.
There’s a bright future ahead once we realize that no one is coming to save us.
All we have to do is make it.
The left are “if only” delusional dreamers.
If only…White people were not so racist, we would all live in peace and harmony.
If only…the bad people stopped burning fossil fuels, Gaia would be happy.
If only…the borders were open, good people would flock in and we’d know the joys of diversity.
If only…the police were disbanded, the jails would not be full of oppressed people of color.
If only…conservatives would accept all the many genders and sexual orientations, love would flourish.
If only…statues, street names and all the reminders of the horrors of the past inflicted on innocent non-Whites were removed and renamed, we could heal our divisions and enter paradise.
It beggars belief that any person in the world today can be so naive, but there it is.
Yet somehow they are in charge, and have beaten us at everything that matters since Wilson.
Only their useful idiots are like that, those in charge know what they are doing.
It is a common error on /ourside/ to think the idiots we see on TV are calling the shots on the Left. They aren’t, those antifa dolts and others are just cannon fodder. The people behind the scenes that matter? Most of them we have never even heard of and they are smart and ruthless.
Well, that’s the thing. Have they beaten us in long successful marriages? Loving relations with our God? Well-educated, capable children? Sanity? General happiness?
Nope.
So this chap has the right idea.
https://status451.com/2017/11/11/radical-book-club-what-righties-can-do/#more-10061
All you black-pilled divorced, single guys, who aren’t working 3 gig jobs to make ends meet need to take a page from his book.
As for us married types, with kids, we have better fish to fry. Specifically, restarting a superversive comic, organizing a LCMS college program where based Christian young adults can assortively-mate, and a choir.
Well said. They want a world where . . . people who love freedom . . . don’t exist.
I don’t believe there is a historical precedent for a minority, and freedom lovers are a minority, changing a society peacefully.
The Left has been prepping for that for awhile now. While we still don’t have a single governor or even an urban mayor on our side. Just people who think living in the woods will save them.
Mr. De Santis would like a word. I suspect you are mistaken about the mayors also.
Quit with the doomporn already, if you please.
Nope. Never said anything about this being easy.
As for change, I seriously doubt it. Pseudo-wifey/Life Partner & I are doing what the Romans did – opt out into the countryside, into Year 4 of that creation. TPTB have way too much skin in the game to let Trump back in through the front door.
If there is change, it might just be a huuuuuge train wreck. Regardless of 2024 Election Winner.
I think I’ve made it clear that within 20 years I think the place is shot, regardless of 2024.
Don’t surrender and don’t take prisoners!
Beans, bullets, and band-aids.
IMHO we will be under Marshall Law because they pissed off enough of us “deplorable’s”that Jan. 6th will look like a food fight. They can’t let the election happen!
There’s a Dark Moon Rising!
There is. And we should welcome that.
@John – Given the topic and content of today’s post – I’m starting to think that perhaps I should read the *current* essay before going back to the prior one to read comments, and maybe add my own $.02 (not adjusted for inflation). Why? Because I just posted a comment that touched on many of the points you covered today, although perhaps not in quite as upbeat a fashion. BTW – sorry this turned out so long. I should probably have asked if you accept ‘guest posts’. 😉
Whenever I’ve reviewed the casualty projections of any major ‘infrastructure crashing’ catastrophe (EMP – natural or man-made, Global Nuclear War(tm), or !!!Alien Invasion!!!) – I’ve seen a ‘die-off’ rate quoted in the near order of 80 to 90%, for the reasons I briefly outlined. That is – in the absence of working energy infrastructure (electricity, & fossil fuels) – we cannot feed, ensure shelter [in excessively cold or hot climates], let alone preserve a working medical industry – to care for an increasingly out of shape, aging, and infirm populous.
If/When everything comes crashing down (either literally, and/or figuratively) – it’ll be those that survive that get to rebuild our Republic, with whatever modifications are necessary to reduce the chance of future collapse.
Increase the odds that could be a part of this by:
1) Getting out of cities. As our host has repeated said: A year too early is better than a minute too late.
2) Put away as much shelf stable foods as possible (including a water supply, as necessary),
3) Reduce / eliminate dependence on supermarkets for all your foods (learn self sufficiency gardening!)
4) Reduce / eliminate dependence on modern infrastructure – even if living that way isn’t your first choice,
5) Improve your general fitness level whenever possible, as much as possible, and
6) Seek a tribe/clan. This can be family (or not), but the harsh truth is that in a world fallen down, a team is more likely to survive. Make friends with folks that share your values, and that can teach you things you don’t know yet.
7) Learn how to defend yourself, those you are responsible for, and your belongings. There are many way to do this, not the least of which is learning how to safely and effectively use a firearm. If you don’t know how, and/or or cannot/will not – see item (6), and negotiate a deal where others would be willing to do the ‘defending’ for you. NOTE: I only include this option to ‘subcontract’ your defense because I understand that there are some that are either physically or emotionally unable to defending themselves with a firearm. Do what you need to do.
I don’t recall who said it – but it’s true, and rather liberating once you take it upon yourself as kind of a personal challenge:
“The best way to insure the future you want – is to build it yourself.”
And if that sounds too daunting – just work on building the parts that you can, and/or help others do the same. Don’t get hung up on not being able to (re)build everything the way you want in your lifetime. This will likely be a multi-generational task, one we can pass on to our progeny. Create the vision for others to follow – and show them the way by starting it yourself.
The only way out – is through.
And to quote a US Marine friend: “The only easy day was yesterday.” 😉
First, comment is free, and yours is always, always welcome.
I agree. The only add? Raise strong children for what is to come. As my children get older and stronger?
My job is done.
Thank You, and Amen.
At the risk of being trite – Our children are our future. Make sure they’re prepared for it!
This.
The future is bright indeed, but only after a lot of darkness.
A lot. But when it is time to clean, it’s time to clean.
“There’s a bright future ahead once we realize that no one is coming to save us.
All we have to do is make it.”
THIS!
Thank you!
> “The Good News? It’s Up To You.”
Who is this “you” being pointed to? 90% of humans are liberal commies who want you to be their slave. What are you going to do to prevent your own children from voting, when even Ron Paul couldn’t transmit his worldview to his son, Rand Paul?
Entropy is the natural state of everything including human nature.
So find the parents who succeeded* and learn from them. I know loads. So be of good cheer. We would not be here were that not possible. It’s up to me and also to you. Yes, you personally, to pick up the torch and carry it.
(*Not sure how Mr. Paul (who seems to be worth his salt as a congesscritter) fits into that category.)
If you want to count yourself out, that’s not my business.