We Live in Tumultuous and Evil Times

We are living in tumultuous and evil times. The tumultuous aspect of current existence is right before our eyes; covid 19 has spread across the planet, leaving carnage and more death than anyone would care to confront. This lack of confront and our agreement to government propaganda, fighting amongst ourselves, black against white, rich against poor, etc, remains firm in the evil category. This is exactly what those in real power want us to do, that is fight amongst ourselves rather than paying attention to their insidious machinations, and the promotion and engagement in perpetual war.

Many intellectuals have called these times an era of “post truth”. This post modern notion really came into the mainstream with the arrival of the Trump administration. When the “pale witch” announced on Fox News, “...there may be facts, but there are alternative facts”. Suddenly people were spouting about, “this is my truth”, unknowingly promoting the post modern doctrine of relativism, and the rejection of hierarchy and central narratives. In this world of wish-washy “idealism”, free speech is used as a weapon, where certain speech is allowed in the public discourse and others are attacked for what they utter, and in some cases on social media, as a result of being “piled-on” by certain influential people, have lost their jobs for speaking out a particular point of view. We have come to call this phenomenon, Cancel Culture.

My father, a civil engineer, would call all this Cancel Culture rot, mental masturbation for the pseudo intellectual. Though the man has been dead for many years, he was certainly on to something. Journalists, certain activists and academics have engaged in this dangerous game of attempting to destroy certain notions about society. For example, to be pro-BDS movement, is to be called antisemitic, thus ruining the reputations of any activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and treatment of the Palestinian people.

This is one example of our *tumultuous times*, Cancel Culture: though promotes the existence of free speech, ironically, are suppressing certain voices they deem unworthy or simply counter to their own beliefs.

A central example of the evil in our times is why the anti-war movement across the planet has all but disappeared. The main reason is economics, combined with a government that promotes war and the outright propaganda that the corporate media spreads on their behalf.

Similar to Cancel Culture, for sometime, since at least 9/11, to be anti-war is to be unpatriotic or a Russian agent. The democratic party and their state department cronies, including the neocons in DC, has done an excellent job of promoting war, and crushing any protests against it. In fact, right now, there is no anti-war political party in the United States. Both parties are bribed by the weapons industry, so to justify the money they receive, vote for outrageous defence budgets, and last week, stopped president Trump from removing troops from Afghanistan. War is evil, and to support the death of innocents overseas, as well as our own for profit, is nothing less than evil.

Covid 19, though real, has been a great distraction for the elites to pass their tyrannical laws against the people. Rather than substantial stimulus money that should have gone to the people, this year ,we witnessed the greatest transference of wealth to the corporations and the banksters, in the history of the world. To believe that our politicians have the peoples best interests at heart is to live in a fools paradise.

Both tumultuous and evil is the current deployment of military to cities in the U.S., to stop protesters. As written before, https://sychronicity1.blogspot.com/2020/07/fascism-rising-in-plain-sight.html this is pure fascism. People are protesting for their true rights, economically, and the brutality of the police on African Americans. Trumps response to the protests is nothing less than tyrannical. To add insult to injury, he has allotted millions to police forces around the country.

America, sadly, has turned into a Police State.

Our politicians are failing the people. Rather than the lies and propaganda that they spout during their circus campaigns, they should lay down their actual policies, rather than shouting cultural issues that further alienate us against each other.

And this is the central problem: rather than fight each other on cultural issues, we need to come together, and vote for leaders who do not take bribes from the rich and the elite; leaders who make changes for the better for their constituents.

Easier said than done. The shells are falling from many eyes around the planet: realising that our politicians are paid puppets for the powerful.

We live in tumultuous and evil times.

And this must change.

It has to.