'Things Aren't As Bad As 1861, There Won't Be A Second Civil War'
I’ve seen the statement in the title making the rounds lately. People need to think about this more clearly. First off, technology has made us weak. As a people we are much different than those who were living in 1861. Our every need is a car ride away but we don't even need to do that. That which we desire is brought right to our door via apps on our phones. Our lives continue to get easier and that may not be a positive. For the most part, this society is a bunch of indoor cats. That’s the bad news about us.
What makes today different than 1861? I think anyone who's paying attention can clearly see it. First; the enemy is coming for your children. As I've stated many times, homeschooling and doing everything you can to protect your kids only delays the inevitable. While you're homeschooling and raising your kids to believe that political power is immoral, etc., 98% of the population is sending their children to schools where they're being turned into soldiers for radical Leftist ideas. And they will not be allergic to political power. While homeschooling is essential it’s not enough to give your children a promising future.
Second; we are certainly in late-stage empire. Financial devastation is upon us and thankfully more people are becoming aware of what some of us have warned about since 2008. BUT, maybe more importantly, many people are starting to see the loss of self-control of those in power when it comes to dealing with those who they perceive as their enemies. Even Abraham Lincoln waited until after the shooting started to begin jailing journalists who he believed to be on the wrong side of the friend/enemy distinction. We just witnessed a former president of the United States have his home raided by federal police in a move that recalls teetering states who build fences and walls around the buildings in which their politicians meet. Any clear thinker should be judging the US government as illegitimate. While many would call this a “positive step,” I would argue that they do not understand the perils of a crumbling empire when there is no one in place to pick up the pieces other than those who’ve overturned the chess board. This is why building local community is essential.
Do I think we're on the verge of a shooting war between Americans? I teeter back and forth on this. But I do not like to make predictions because many people in the past who have made such forecasts I do not respect. I don't want to join their ranks. But what I will ask you to do is look around and tell me if you think a hot war between the states is more plausible today than you would have thought in 2019.
I don't feel like going to war over the kayfabe, blustering politician who got us into this whole Covid debacle in the first place. However, many good people have been unlawfully searched and seized over the years and I don't suspect we will see less of this in the coming days. I do not have any delusion that the kids in school getting a collectivist ideology are going to be more sympathetic to me or my homeschooled children because I'm down with people. I'm nothing like them and even if I was, saying I let gay people in my church or whatever never kept zombies from eating their own. They can smell the brains in you that they don't have so I am not fooling anyone. Finding tribe and growing tribe through mutual values and vision regardless of how they use the state for personal protection currently or not is my primary goal. But if we are looking for allies in the antistate sentiment, the right is a much more primed and receptive audience whereas the left... has all the religious zealotry, fervor and pageantry of the largest cults ever known. They don't drink the kool aid, they gulp in it, while bathing in it and snorting it in both nostrils at once. The only solace I have regarding future wars is that in so doing, many of those who would be my enemies are coming down with SADS and "unknown causes" as JP Sears so adequately put it. It's the no. 1 cause of death today in Alberta, Canada.
Every day seems to bring a fresh outrage that one would think would be a precursor to violence. I think we’ve all seen stories that make us wonder why certain people haven’t been put up against the wall yet.
I don’t want violence, but I do wonder sometimes if it might be necessary to our human nature and the sacrificial violence that we crave.
I sometimes think the people saying that we’re not as divided as 1861 are engaging in wishful thinking. We’re divided all but physically and our personal comfort, I think, I’d the only thing holding us back from the brink.