The Centre Cannot Hold

The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats – 1865-1939

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Undeniable
Undeniable
October 28, 2021 2:35 pm

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Ain’t THAT the f*ckin’ truth.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Undeniable
October 28, 2021 3:45 pm

No arguement from me on that point.

MartelsHammer
MartelsHammer
October 28, 2021 2:41 pm

Written in 1919 after the end of WWWI The Second Coming is one of the greatest poems in the English language. It talks about a world coming apart and a new one ( and not in a good way) being born. Pretty much where we are right now though the big war with China/Russia is still in the non-kinetic phase that is likely to change soon. Remember Europe was destroyed in WWI and has never really recovered but the world goes on. That is likely our fate as well, we in the USA will be destroyed in the near future from which our role in the world will be weaker and fundamentally different. It is ok it is the way of all things. We can fight and fight decline but the hollowing out process has gone on too long there really is not much left of us. Tranny Admirals don’t win wars and societies that make Tranny Admirals are soon gone. We can be a surviving remnant and I hope most of you have hidden away in an off-the-beaten-path location with as much self-sufficiency as possible…most won’t survive the next wave of biologics now that the test run is nearly complete.

Warren
Warren
  MartelsHammer
October 28, 2021 3:31 pm

Pretty obvious to me that the US as a culture is dead, that our form of government, and with it our financial system, the Dollar especially is on death’s door and that the country won’t exist much beyond that.

And yes perhaps there’s a few out of the way places to ride it out, someplace with a farm culture a decent growing season, far away from the cities, and not too close to a nuclear power plant.

Had Trump been allowed to continue the day of reckoning would have been postponed, but the national debt would have eventually taken the country down.
As it is now, with the fake President being allowed to take over, the country is being deliberately destroyed, as such it won’t be long for the inevitable socioeconomic collapse, probably before the 2024 election, so don’t worry about voting harder next time, there probably won’t be a next time.

But this collapse won’t be like anything seen since the fall of Rome.

There’s no obvious empire able to step in and pick up the baton. For tue first time since the Venetian merchants ruled th known world there’s no country that can be the next empire of the day. China could be in a generation or two, but not yet. And even so the world needs a strong capitalist country to create the wealth that the world runs on, a world that works by spending other people’s money, doesn’t work if the other people aren’t creating money.

In the global economic sense the US is the center and it will not hold, once it goes down it will take the rest of the world with it.

The Biden/Obama Junta is working with the WEF to destroy the US in order to set up the build back better aka great reset. The death jabs, and open border policies to bring in the compliant replacement population and the economic destruction being done is all a part of that. Because these madmen think that they can manage the decline and control the replacement economic system.

I don’t believe that any one could. Because once the system crashes the collapse will be like an avalanche and will take out everything in its path.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Warren
October 28, 2021 3:56 pm

Sad, but quite likely true. This nation, once founded on the person of Jesus Christ have now joined those in Jerusalem that passed by THEIR Saviour Jesus Christ and spat on Him. As God chastened His own people, the Jewish nation about 607 BC, it appears He will now chasten this nation who have done the same thing to Him. This is not going to be pleasant.

nkit
nkit
  Warren
October 28, 2021 4:17 pm

This past August, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko claimed that the IMF and World Bank jointly offered him a bribe of $940 million USD in the form of “Covid Relief Aid.” In exchange for the bribe Lukashenko was told to:

1. impose an extreme lock down on its citizens
2. impose a nationwide mask mandate
3. impose strict curfews
4. impose a police state
5. crash the economy

If they offered that much cash to Lukashenko, then just how much are Obama and Biden (et al) getting to destroy our economy and Republic???

Wasn’t it Obama who, as President, scolded wealthy people saying: “At some point, you’ve made enough money?” Apparently that doesn’t apply to Marxist hypocrites like the Magic Negro, a.k.a. (in his own words) “The Chosen One.”

May he burn in the depths of Hell for eternity for his in your face hatred of White people, and his immeasurable greed.

BUCKHED/BUY MORE AMMO/BOURBON TOO
BUCKHED/BUY MORE AMMO/BOURBON TOO
October 28, 2021 3:14 pm

Ironic the last line of them poem mentions Bethlehem….whose star will shine bright again this Christmas .

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
October 28, 2021 3:27 pm

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

The son of perdition part deux. Judas was first.

Luke 22:3 KJB… “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.”

John 17:12 KJB… “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”

Richo
Richo
October 28, 2021 3:41 pm

The key line:

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

Ghost
Ghost
October 28, 2021 4:37 pm