Time to diss illusion

Why republish it now?

I am sad for all the angry, depressed people out there — especially the fragile millennials having cry parties because they’re traumatized that they didn’t get their way in an election.

They have no idea that they actually dodged a bullet last Tuesday. (If you know anything about how the Clintons attained and have retained their power, the bullet metaphor is highly apt.)

I’m sad that my generation and my parents’ have utterly failed to transmit key aspects of reality to the younger generation, or even to properly inform ourselves.

I feel sad for all who got caught up in the “hope” and "change,” the shrewd marketing and manipulation of symbolism — who sincerely thought the last eight years were going to transform their lives for the better. Most of those people and communities are worse off today than in 2008. All they have is the fading rhetoric, the hollow hype, and the symbolism of a “cool” celebrity president whose signature achievements were bombing more black and brown people, raising the cost of health care, and raising — not lowering — racial division in America.

I’m sad about how certain segments live in a bubble, talk only to those who reinforce their intra-bubble prejudices, and are only able to explain the Trump phenomenon by assigning a wildly outsized role to “racism, sexism and homophobia” in our society. (An Ohio man bitterly quipped, in a call to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal the day after the election: “Any more of this ‘white privilege,’ and I’ll be in bankruptcy.”)

The people who believe that allegedly pervasive “white privilege” is behind the election of Trump are caught up in illusion, an engineered reality — a Matrix.
It may not be literally a reality simulation inside a computer, but it might as well be, for its pervasive, malign influence over a segment of our society.

Those trapped within this false narrative may not realize that the Clintocrats have spent decades using phony, projective accusations of “racism,” of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” and a “war on women” as go-to weapons against their political foes and defensive shields against critical scrutiny and criminal investigation.

Like an octopus shooting out a cloud of ink, the megalomaniacs project a noxious cloud of fear and division into the air to distract from their own extreme hubris, greed, elitism, contempt for the rule of law, ravening lust for power, thirst for war, dangerous international brinksmanship, leadership failure, fundamental dishonesty, and propensity to try to steal anything not nailed down (White House silverware and furniture, party nominations, general elections…)

We’re not supposed to consider that maybe this election turned out the way it did because enough Americans had finally had enough of these smug, smarmy elitists who sell us out, then push paranoid, demonizing, delegitimizing blanket libels against any and all dissenters.

You people who dare object to globalism, corporate-state dominance and the effective dissolution of America, are labled deplorable, despicable, stupid, trash, racists, real or wannabe Ku Klux Klan members, uncouth, uncivilized, unwashed. (When the reality, according to decades-old and recent reports, is that it’s Hillary Clinton who dislikes washing.)

The Clinton world was warned for years by progressive intellectuals such as Thomas Frank to stop being obnoxious elitist assholes who hate their fellow Americans. Yet, they just could not help being obnoxious elitist assholes who hate their fellow Americans.

But the elitist assholes have been beat back — somewhat. A lot of us have escaped the confining little thought-cages the establishment would prefer to keep us in. Many Obama voters from 2008 and/or 2012 crossed over and voted Trump. Perhaps they finally got tired of being slapped around and labeled racists for the last eight years, and having less than nothing to show for it.
Many black and Latino Americans got sick of being taken for granted, of being treated as retarded children, of being shoveled symbolism without substance, of being screamed at that white (non-Democrat) people are the devil, of having our choices limited. We got tired of being treated as property. We too decided to go off the plantation.

To me, the (presumptive) election outcome is a verdict, if only a symbolic one so far, in the trial called The People of the United States of America vs. Cloistered Elitism and Criminal Corruption.

If I had time, I could go on and on about the individuals involved and why the winner — despite his flaws — is infinitely less evil than the loser, based on the information available today.

However, the most important lesson I can find in this — a very hard one for humans to get, apparently — is not to deposit your trust, your faith, your hopes and dreams, your personal identity, into politicians and their regimes.

None of them — the present presumptive winner included — is worthy of it. Ultimately, our faith had better be placed in something and someone far above all the nonsense of the human and material world.

Only adherence to the Highest transcends all differences. Everything else divides and enslaves.

Disillusionment with human leaders is painful. It is also an unavoidable stop on the path to enlightenment.

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This post from Bob Lefsetz really resonated with me the last week. I read Bob daily and if you read this blog you know that (subscribe to Bob here). I don’t think Bob fully practices what he preaches…