Guest Post by The Zman
When Trump miraculously won the election in 2016, the smarter observers saw that he was not going to be a reform agent, but a chaos agent. Through the ballot, the public had injected a foreign body into the political system. How the system would react to that foreign body was unknown, but after three plus years the results of the experiment are coming into focus. What we are getting is chaos. Everything about the old order is suddenly in question, as everything about it is breaking down.
The most obvious example of the chaos is the old political order. For almost a generation, national politics was Red Team versus Blue Team. Both sides agreed on most everything as they were financed by the same people. Red Team wanted to be more naked in its slobbering than Blue Team over the men behind the curtain, while Blue Team wanted to be more hysterical than Red Team. Otherwise, no matter which way the people voted, the policies never changed.
Three plus years of Trump and we have prominent national politicians calling for a moratorium on immigration. Trump just claimed he signed an executive order temporarily halting all immigration. Whether or not this is true is entirely unknown, as Trump says all sorts of things that mean nothing. That’s not the point. What matters is that things that were forbidden just a few years ago are now being said in public by people who care very deeply about the taboos of modern society.
Of course, the chaos that will soon matter most to people is the chaos in the economy, which is beginning to get real and real fast. When oil futures hit levels never seen in our lifetime, we are in a different world than existed a few years ago. The nonsense about oil trading below zero is just news hype, but there is no avoiding the fact that the world is suddenly awash in BTU’s. What’s just as significant about this event is that according to the experts, it was not supposed to happen.
That’s the thing to keep in mind about the chaos that is raging all around us. The emerging liberal democratic order promised stability and predictability. Instead of booms and bust in the economy, it was supposed to be gentle slopes up and down as the central bankers steered the ship. Oil markets would no longer be the victim of forces beyond the control of suppliers. Instead, prices would be steady as producers coordinated with world government to temper supply.
What happens in a world suddenly awash in BTU’s? No one knows. Similarly, no one knows what happens when world government tries to turn the economy back on after they have had enough of the pandemic. In fact, no one knows if they will actually try to do it voluntarily. Local officials have gotten the whiff of authoritarianism in their nostrils and they like it. They may find out they like suppressing the minor protests that have been flaring up the past week. We are in uncharted territory.
What we are seeing is the work of The Mule. In the Asimov novels. The Mule is a special character, so special in fact that he is assumed to not exist. In fact, according to the known rules of the universe, he cannot exist. Because he does exist, thus invalidating the rules of the universe, he is the ultimate destroyer of worlds. His ability “is to reach into the minds of others and “adjust” their emotions, individually or en masse, using this capability to conscript individuals to his cause.”
This is Trump. In the primary, he won mostly by causing the Republican Party to go insane and destroy itself. In the general, the media went nuts and convinced the Democrats they had nothing to fear. In Washington, the establishment has taken every opportunity to discredit itself in a mad quest to deny the reality of Trump. In this pandemic, the masters of the universe seem to be determined to do everything they can to invalidate themselves and legitimize their enemies.
The madness of self-invalidation is probably just starting. Due to the crack down on economic activity, things like advertising buys have halted. So much of the internet economy, particularly the media, depends on the belief that money spent on ads and marketing is money well-spent. It was never true, but the new reality will suddenly bring that into focus. In whatever comes next, spending lavishly on ads and marketing data harvested by social media companies will be minimized.
To date, no one has figured out how to make a large-scale media enterprise work on subscriptions alone. Small-scale operations can make it work for the same reason small business can make it work. They have low overheads and focus only on providing the customer with what they seek. Mass media is mass propaganda, financed by corporate ad dollars. In other words, it is not just the political establishment finding itself in a new chaotic world of uncertainty. Its media arm is there as well.
Obviously, the biggest bit of chaos that the people in charge have yet to confront is the world after the crackdown is lifted. We have about 30% unemployment at the moment and the signs of increased economic slowdown. People forget that in the early weeks of the crack down, there was a rush of economic activity. That has subsided and firms are now starting to hear crickets. The curve benders fear a second virus wave, but wait until they get a look at the second layoff wave.
At the various lemon parties, the sobbing and moaning about Trump was understandable, as they never understood what Trump meant. Their politics are immature and based solely on what is presented to them in the media. Like children, they giggle when happy and cry when sad. Similarly, the “Orange Man Bad!” loons could never get past their hurt feelings to grasp the significance of Trump. As the chaos rages, these two camps now cheer like toddlers at someone shaking keys.
For the simple minded, the rising chaos brings to mind their preferred result, which they imagine is right around the corner. In reality, we are just entering the interregnum described by Guillaume Faye, in which the West lurches from crisis to crisis as it tries to reconcile the incoherence and contradictions of liberal democracy. In other words, Trump is not just the end of the old order, but the starting point for a period of chaos, as the world tries to create a new “logic of the universe.”
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Mr. Trump is an entertaining script reader. Nothing more, nothing less. He is no more or less powerful than a name actor in a movie. The producer and directors tell the writers what to write, and the actor delivers the lines. A good actor can carry a bad movie. We are in a very, very bad movie, and Trump is no Larry Olivier.
I like Trump. I find him entertaining. I do not pretend for one minute that he matters. Nor should you.
Not your best work. Probably your worst.
I don’t quite recall your last literary endeavour…
Zman attempts to paint a picture of Trump like the often presented picture of the Corona virus which is too small to get a focus on. What we get is one person’s impression of reality but it gives us an idea of what the virus might look like in reality. Even now, we do not have a complete picture of its effect on the human body, it has many symptoms, some familiar and some as yet unknown. Similarly, Trump is too hazy, too big to capture with today’s lenses, it will take a decade or a century to understand him and his final effect on the entire world.
I like Zman’s painting the denizens of this age as worshipful idiots waiting for the chaos to bring about their paradise. No doubt some dinosaurs welcomed the meteor that would fix all their problems and turn the world into the promise land. However, chaos is just that – disorder. When the chicken knocks over all the chess pieces and shits on the board, you can’t know the outcome as easily. Eve certainly believed that chaos would fix more things than it would destroy. Anybody know how that worked out?
Too many variables this time to even take a stab at what chaos is going to look like.
I have a pretty fair idea of what’s not going to happen, but what good is that?
But, virologists do have a pretty good understanding and focus on their subjects, though with this one there is still a lot they don’t yet know. The renditions of the spiked sphere are not all that unlike what is detected with advanced imaging like is done with electron microscopes. One of the biggest obstacles with measurement systems that detect very faint forms of intelligence is the signal to noise ratio; high levels of noise make it more challenging to seduce useful information from the system being investigated. With Trump in office the S:N ratio is off the charts. Sometimes the way to win is by outsmarting the opposition; other times you just have to wear them down. We are in the late innings of the first game and no one really knows how to even guess at the outcome, let alone if there will even be a second game. Personally, I am more comfortable with Trump in the driver’s seat than with any of the bench warmers.
Like so many things in life involving people, politics is all relative. Can you imagine how things would turn out with a President Kerry, or any of the other “notables” who want us to not forget their names, their faces, or what they want us to think they stand for?
You might find this article helpful in starting to understand what the medical community is learning about the virus and how it differs from most any other we have encountered. Kind of a sobering message, though in a way I think it is just another way of saying that the medically compromised are not going to get off easy if they get infected.
Stay healthy and play the game smart.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes#
Thanks Yukon, I was going to say the same thing, but not in so many words.
A civilization born in faith perishes in it’s absence.
where there is no vision, the people perish.
Around our dinner table we always said that Trump accomplished his purpose in life by running for president. People began to say what they could not say before he arrived on the scene. Not only that, they could actually think things they couldn’t think before. We always said had he died on Inauguration Day, he would have accomplished everything he needed to accomplish. He certainly hasn’t accomplished much since then, or has he? I don’t really think he had any interesting purpose in being president; I mean interesting to anyone but him. That said, had Joseph Campbell wrote about politics rather than aesthetics, he might conclude Trump just came bubbling up out of ‘Murka’s unconscious bringing with him all sorts of things many people did not like to think about. When ‘Murkans finally get bored with starring in their very own disaster movie, we’ll see where this takes us.
Aodh,
I think that you have it all wrong. This guy said everything that Murkans were already saying. He was told what to say by his pollsters who were listening and had the pulse as to what Murkans were griping about. Even the smallest things. That’s why all the things that he said that he was going to fix, all at one time, sounded like a drunken fool spouting off right before he fell off of his bar stool. And like that drunken fool, when it came time to do the things that he said that he was going to do, he did none of them. In fact he did the opposite. So who really were the drunken fools? And it seems like a lot of those Murkans are still drinking. Like the guy that wrote this article while he must have been drinking. Or maybe I missed something because I was too.
I think it is now obvious that all of this chaos is a side effect of what amounts to a civil war within the elites who have been running this country or perhaps the world even going back only God knows how far. Evidently the Elites who were in control here are being challenged by a new boss on the block- Mr. Trump. He is nothing more, and he represents a new boss, same old failing system. We know he is largely a fake because after he promised to, he never released the truth on the JFK assassination, another family feud going back a long time. I supposed they all bitched about that, figuring they didn’t need Americans wanting to figure out who all of the other puppet masters are.
I also think this proxy war has driven them all against the wall. All of the things stemming from this economic shutdown smells of a mass liquidation of everything within the Corporation of the United States , and the peons have no control over any of it.
At the conclusion of your first sentence I scrolled down to see how many upvotes this comment got. Only 1 in 9 hours. Apparently there is only you, me, and 1 other person who have read the comment who believe there is a war going on between many factions. None of which have any interest in the well being of citizens of any country.RFK Jr.’s letter to the CNN doctor was revealing as are many other exposes of Globalist and MSM crimes which can only be found on a diminishing number of sites such as TBP.
There was a reason JFK Jr. named his magazine “George” He was naming the man who had his father killed. Can you guess which George it was? If you want to have a laugh, look up Gerald Ford’s eulogy given by George himself. Watch the whole thing. Especially watch when he mentions the JFK assassination. There’s a moment he looks towards the floor and he’s grinning from ear to ear.
I love the Foundation series too, but I have to respectfully disagree. The Mule was a factor that could not be predicted by “psychohistory.” In contrast, Trump appears to be an agent of planned dialectic. If he was the Mule, they would have “locked her up.” I’m still waiting on those 1MM sealed indictments.
If you agree that Trump is a force of dialectic moving us toward a premeditated destination, you should be worried that the call to open the country back up is a trap. If Covid-19 is a combination of psyop and biological warfare, then prepare for Covid 2.0 to get dropped on the reactionary elements, and then the MSM chorus will rise in unison with “I told you so” hosannas as they cheerlead the screws turning even tighter in the fall.
Zman is not even trying anymore.