first principle

“the political intermediaries who are, in all societies, the guarantors of freedom, disappear to make way for a booted and spurred Jehovah who rules over the silent masses or, which comes to the same thing, over masses who shout slogans at the top of their lungs.” “thus he must create guilt in his victims so that, in a world that has no direction, universal guilt will authorize no other course of action than the use of force and give its blessing to nothing but success…the only value…remained, until the bitter end, success.” “the rebel” albert camus____________________________________

the alleged billionaire and unalloyed doofus in the white house is nothing if not a staggeringly arrogant proponent of a consequentialist viewpoint…success is all that matters…how it is achieved is, at best, a secondary matter with no real room for ethics…acquisition is the goal…what you have matters, not how you got it…anyone who disagrees with that is “stupid a “loser” and a “moron”…and there are no grey areas in that…

an us/them bunker mentality that is endemic to the shouters at his rallies and to the partisan behaviors in congress…

in their descent into bickering along well defined party lines they have ceased to be “ the guarantors of freedom” ( and there is significant doubt in my mind if the congress was ever a guarantor of anything but privilege…there is strong evidence that the change in government engineered by the constitutional convention was rather a coup against the declaration of independence and “the will of the people” by a new aristocratic class ) and become drone representatives of faction with no real desire to be factual or, to the extent humans can be, objective in assessing what is actually going on…since the electoral process is a de facto choice of candidates from the two wings of what is essentially the same party we are left observing events in whoretown with nothing that could be defined as influence by the polity…from the beginning the billionaire portrayed himself as an “outsider” who was going to “drain the swamp”…

this laughable ( and widely accepted ) contention has spurred a host of career politicians to proclaim their outsiderness in a partisan frenzy to pursue the above concept of “success” for as much as they can get…greed as first principle has always had a place in government…it is, I think, the current, blatant display of the fact that has unnerved some of the polity…that it has unnerved a significant portion of the ruling elite is obvious as well as they try to re-cloak the underlying precept of government ( protect and expand wealth at the cost of the rest of society ) which is in danger of screwing up a good gig I n terms that may rival the great depression of disillusionment with capitalism and the hegemonic culture that controls it…”class traitors have emerged in its defense a la fdr in the 1930s…they will be reviled…they will do their best to preserve the status quo while masquerading as being “ for the street”…it is as unsustainable as the economy…it will implode eventually…entropy will have its way and the feedback loop that has allowed it ( read fossil fuels ) will see homo sapiens into “the dustbin of history”…deny what you like…denial is a very human activity and i am deeply familiar with it…reality does not respect it…from rising sea levels to increasing disparity in wealth on a global level to a mass of climate refugees this will not end well.