Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“We are at an inflection point, a threshold, where weak, brittle, effete personality structures are a threat to human civilization.”— JD Haltigan on X
The Dead Rise on John Street
You might have noticed that the massive investment in Halloween yard shrines by families growing broke in America reflects the ghoulish convergence of malevolent events undermining and overtaking what used to be normal life in this land. Nothing is normal anymore. The groaning mummies, howling werewolves, and shrieking skeletons are trying to tell us something.
The message might be: detach from reality long enough and death comes creeping ’round your door. You see where consensual madness has gotten us? Believe enough things that are not true and nemesis comes roaring in, all fangs and claws, to gleefully shred you. So. Maybe it’s time to stop believing things that are not true.
Start with the first principle of US life in our time: that anything goes and nothing matters. This proposition has ruled for as long as most of us can remember. Consequence was exiled on Main Street so you can get away with anything now — until you discover that, somehow, everything is broken. Your livelihood is broken. Your community is broken. Your household is broken. Your car is broken. Your children are broken. Your health is broken. Your faith is broken. Your country is broken.
Here’s a first principle worth considering: court death and it will oblige you. Granted, there is a certain libido for nonexistence in the human psyche because life is so hard sometimes that you yearn to be relieved of it. But not everyone in America seeks to walk that way. Probably fewer than half of us. So why do we allow that other half to drag us to the bone orchard? Do you see what it means to get your mind right when times get hard and the path is uncertain?
Everybody knows that a ghoul was installed in the now-haunted White House. And everybody knows that the method of his installation was a fraud, a gigantic falsehood. The catch is that the fewer than half of us liked it that way, they celebrated it, did a victory dance, and then rubbed it in with prosecutions against the rest of us who saw exactly what happened and didn’t like it. They acted like it didn’t matter what you saw.
They tried to control the transmission of ideas and sentiment about these matters by placing half the CIA and the FBI on Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Nice try, but only cads and fools think that you can stuff reality in a black box, lock it up, and throw away the key. Reality has Houdini-like powers to escape because reality is true magic. Reality is the ultimate super-power. Reality is not some asshole in a spandex suit with a cape and a mask. Reality is the white light that reveals the world.
Reality is telling us that the war project in Ukraine started by the neocon pseudopod of our Deep State blob is not working out. The fiasco could not be more rank. Instead of weakening Russia, it crippled the USA. V. Putin is not the enemy of Western Civ, he’s one of its last remaining defenders. Was it not in everyone’s interest that for seventy-five years Ukraine existed as an inert borderland, making trouble for nobody, itself especially? Could we not respect that reality and leave it alone?
Reality is telling us that Israel refuses to be massacred out of existence. Israel will defend itself with us or without us. It’s possible they’ll manage it intelligently. You might ask: will we defend ourselves against the same antagonist that wants to wipe all of Western Civ off the face of the earth, us included? Notice that your own will to survive is being subverted by useful idiots while warrior cadres of mysterious origin pour across the Mexican border. Everyone knows it’s a clear and present danger and who will move to stop the invasion? Do we have to wait for a catastrophe?
Who is “Joe Biden” working for? Wouldn’t you like to know? Not much is left of him in mind or body, though he made a fortune in a short span of years for doing effectively nothing but retailing his favor before landing so uncannily in the seat of power. The truth about it is all over the place now and might provoke constitutional procedures that will induce the de-platforming he likely deserves. All that is going to unspool now whether The New York Times pays attention to it or not, and no matter what the fewer than half of us want to pretend about the evil legerdemain that put him where he is.
The extended festival of ghouls and dancing skeletons comes to an end in a week with the Day of the Dead, also known as All Saints Day. That is your cue to stop celebrating wickedness for its own sake. Remember, we are the living. While we are here, we have an obligation to those who come after us. The dead can take care of themselves. It is possible to have faith in ourselves. Even as the days grow shorter, the people of this land can gather in the remaining light instead of worshiping the darkness. A new season will be upon us soon. Hark, the herald angels sing!
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The goal of mystery babylon and its followers is to weaken and undermine our faith in ourselves and a Free form of government to the point where people throw up their hands in exhaustion and say ‘ give us a new system ‘. The new system will be the same old bondage. Just say NO.
If I were a betting man I’d lay even odds that Israel gets wiped off the map in the next few years.
I doubt it. I was reading a history book a few months ago – History of the Ancient World – and it felt like I was reading current day news. They’ve been fighting over there for eons. What’s different this time?? Nothing.
Nothing new under the sun.
What did Mark Twain say. History might not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
You don’t need to read history books about that location, just look with an open mind –
it became clear to me like 20 years ago, that with continued Israeli politics it’s not a question of *if* but only a question of *when* Jerusalem becomes a giant, radioactive crater.
Here’s why Israel’s continued existence is not guaranteed in the long term
Right now, the whole delicate plan is hanging by a thread. And the problem is not specific political and diplomatic mistakes, but a fundamental inability to manage processes in the way the US and big countries in general are used to, believing they have the levers for everything. This is a systemic change, the consequences of which could be anything.
The transition from external regulation of the region to internal balance is painful, and success is not predetermined. Thus, Israel’s problem is that the overwhelming power advantage it has relied on for three-quarters of a century is no longer a reliable guarantee of its existence.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/here-s-why-israel-s-continued-existence-is-not-guaranteed-in-the-long-term/
If Israel ceases to exist, then it wasn’t Israel.
The country of Israel is 99% injected with the mRNA gene therapy referred to as the Covid vaccine.
That is that country’s real problem.
I wish you were a betting man.
I NEVER consented, raised hell in my 20’s at the “system’ because all I saw were friggin’ DEMONS and pedophilics IN POWER!
HOW did that happen, I didn’t vote for that! (oh yeah, engels 1962-but you were distracted with Cuba)
So, it’s jail 17 times as a young man, as I DO NOT BACK DOWN! Am NOT intimidated by ANYTHING! Especially another “man”.
Oh, I can’t WAIT for the power to go off for good….
DONT BACK DOWN , BRUH ….REEEEEEEEE
Extreme times, indeed:
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So Trump has got the black Marxist vote all sewn up.
His (Trump) new motto is “Maybe not an Americana chicken in every pot but at least they are coming home to roost”, with a tip of the MAGA baseball cap to the late Reverend Wright.
The image reminded me of a rural road I cut thru on the way to a friend’s house, it has many single wide trailers with dilapidated daily drivers parked out front, some on blocks off to the side. Every one of them are loaded with Halloween yard art including huge electrified & inflatable ones. Imagine the scenario, Ramen noodles every night but at least they got the decorations up! #Priorities.
It’s all tricks and no treats from here on out, JHK.
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
― Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
“…to judge the living and the dead.”
The joke about nobody getting out of life alive is true but not how most people think. All will be judged. That is the haunting most appropriate of this season of ours.
There remains an awkwardness of that particular State over there in the Holy Land that seems to always be proposing a new a circle to be squared.
For one to notice the nature of that proposition alone is both a sin in the eyes of our hyphen-God but also often a legal infraction of the jurisprudence of our own hyphenated lands. Which could land one without a job with a quicklike efficiency that would make an early ’40’s snappy -dressed German all rougey in his weizen.
But to hammer the flimsy circle into right angles with logic is even more hateful. Might as well be digging up mass graves of the past to have them all genocided again.
No, you bigot, I am not talking about the Armenians. Or the Rwandans. Or Cambodians. Or Bangladesh. Or Holodomor. Or even the 1804 Haiti Massacre. The only relevant one is the one that is trademarked. They had to trademark it to protect their intellectual property which everyone was always trying to steal because hate.
Reality, it seems, plays favorites. Not just with the arbiter of righteousness being massacre velocity when convenient, but also the oldness of one’s dirt. Which is fair given that the hyphen-God wrote a whole book explaining how there can be only one nation that is allowed to refuse being massacred. The rest of us are all just hyphen-Gods children.
Nationless. Fungible units subject to the laws of holy osmosis. Resisting movements of Gods children across these permeable barriers of hate called “borders” is evil. The high concentration of others children naturally move into areas of low concentration of your children because SCIENCE IS REAL. Resisting is not just hateful, it is anti-science!
Now there are some conspiracies about the translation of that book being a bit “off”. Ignore those too. Lets stay on task here.
When the demons come out and we are all running around in this together, try to remember those parts of the book with the swords. You never know when your dirt may qualify for righteousness, be it the velocity or the age. Such a mystery, all this time of progress.
I dunno……seems Israel sees pretty much EVERYBODY as its enemy or “Amalek”…..
Kinda like we say about cops with guns,when all you have is a hammer.every problem BECOMES A NAIL!…….
What about Palestine being massacred out of existence, JK?
About 10 houses down the road there is one with the most bloody and violent “decoration” I could imagine. Severed limbs (I hope they are fake) etc lying around the front yard etc. It is “Saw” on steroids. Because of it, our daughter has stopped riding her bike around the block because “she doesn’t want to ride past the severed limbs”.
What is up with people? Even my husband said “your front yard should not be rated R”.
I think maybe those home owners are just numb inside. Or just tone deaf.
I think I will go there today, ring the door bell and ask them politely to remove it at least for next week when a bunch of 3 year old bumblebees and 6 year old princesses will be roaming the street and should not have to make a detour around one gruesome property.