An occasional reader confided the other day that he finds this blog too black pilled. Frequent readers will be aware that I eschew the whole white pill-black pill dichotomy. What people mean by a “white pill” is a sensible consolation–warm fuzzies, in laymen’s terms.
In the political life as in the spiritual life, the pursuit of consolations cannot be the aim of the whole enterprise. They are only positive reinforcements, like the dopamine hits you get from eating. Consuming tasty food is not an end in itself. Instead, it is rightly ordered toward sustaining life. Get fixated on the dopamine hit, and you end up with serious health problems.
It’s similar with politics. Tidbits of good news that come along give news junkies dopamine hits, but they’re not the point. The true end of politics is producing the conditions necessary for a healthy society to thrive. The standard mechanism of this process is a series of political contests which ideally result in pro-civilization forces winning power so they can thwart those who would impose dyscivic ideas. Getting lost in the minutiae invites a kind of myopia in regard to events. How a given development makes you feel becomes more important than advancing the bigger goal.
As is clear to anyone who’s been watching the clown funeral of current events unfold for the past five years, America’s political apparatus has broken down. It is no longer possible to properly order society through victory at the ballot box. If Trump proved anything, it’s that the machine has run amok and will do as it pleases despite the people’s wishes. Talking politics is pointless, because political activity per se cannot be carried out.
This state of affairs is indeed depressing for people hooked on white pills. They’d hoped that voting harder to elect the right candidates would turn the ship around and bring us back to 1988. That attitude is to be expected in a democracy, which has the baked-in problem of reducing truth to a majority vote, yet has no solution to the inevitable problems it causes but expanding the franchise to people with less and less skin in the game.
Some criticize the observation “We’re not voting our way out of this” as defeatist. They tend to focus on the “voting” part. The crux of the statement is really “we”, which includes ever-growing numbers of sub-90 IQ invaders, felons, and the mentally ill. When a majority vote defines truth, the aforementioned voter base guarantees Clown World.
For a prime example, see the recent promotion of a skirt-wearing madman to one of the most exalted ranks in the US military. As is always the case with these circus shows, the humiliation is the point. The subcontinental carpetbagger was chosen to administer the oath just to rub it in. Their Covidian ritual headgear actually countersignals the victory dance by making the participants look ashamed to show their faces.
A white woman handing over control to a mercenary weirdo and Buffalo Bill – you couldn’t ask for a more perfect microcosm of Current Year America. Welcome to your new country!
Now, while I can’t dispense any white pills, I will point out that the current situation isn’t without silver linings.
The problem with democracy is that reality doesn’t care what 51 percent of people vote for. Contra the Woke Cult’s utopian fever dreams, putting foolish and insane people in charge has severe consequences.
Our rulers have announced with great fanfare the reassignment of their intelligence agencies to oppress ordinary people. That project may not go as well for them as they’d hoped, since the vaunted diversification of their talent pool has run up against reality. Earlier this month, it came out that dozens of CIA informants have been captured or killed by foreign powers. The Agency admitted that these losses were due to bad tradecraft – in a memo which was itself leaked due to bad tradecraft.
For an even more spectacular object lesson, always remember the disastrous Afghanistan pullout when you’re tempted to despair. Third world hill people with nothing going for them but steadfast religious devotion fought the American Empire for twenty years and finally won. The same enemy is now turning its malice on us. We are much smarter and more resourceful than the Taliban. More importantly, we hold the True Faith of which theirs is a heretical echo. If God has seen fit to deliver Mohammedans from the worse evil of the Death Cult, how much more will He favor us if we only repent and return to worshiping Him in spirit and truth?
A time of spiritual purification is here. Ditch the dependency on white pills. Don’t despair. Seek the Lord while He may be found.
And don’t give money to people who hate you.
The light on the other side of this dark tunnel will be brighter than what came before – provided we keep the faith.