Paradigms and Demographics: P&D and the Week That Was

Saturday, September 3, 2022

P&D and the Week That Was

De Omnibus Dubitandum: Everything is to be Questioned!

By Rich Kozlovich

While a lot has been going on this week, my offerings are small in number, but I do believe they're profound, provocative and undeniably accurate.

Gorbachev died and brought writers out of the woodwork telling everyone what a "really decent man" Gorby was, and by the standards of Soviet leadership, he was. He wasn't a drunk, he didn't want to start a war with the West, he loved and was devoted to his wife, and he was personally honest, and by the standards of the rest of the Soviet leadership he really was a "decent man", but the fact of the matter is a decent man ruling an evil empire is a captive of the evil of that empire as much as he is the leader of that empire. Ultimately, the fundamental social paradigm of the Russian people came to the fore. Did you ever wonder at the depth of tolerance the Russians have for murderous tyrants? Like the rest of Europe, and believe it or not Russia is a European nation, and like any other nation that was once ruled by kings and nobility, they want to be led like sheep.

Europe is a test bed for terrible ideas. All are variants of communism and fascism. Yes, they’ve been tried before. And no, they didn’t work. But you can just hear the great minds of Europe grinding away inside their medieval castles (moats swimming with champagne-washed crocodiles):

Shall we try food shortages again? We tried them before, but what if this time we tell people they can eat bugs! Can we get them to eat bugs? Or: What if we pass laws making it illegal to get fuel oil—except from our enemies! And then we surprise people with a tenfold increase in the cost of electricity! It’ll be like the winter of 1942!

But Europe generally gets away with this because the Europeans expect and want to be ruled. As a German described it to pioneer correspondent William L. Shirer after the Nuremberg rallies, they are “geborene Untertanen”—born subjects.

(Editor's Note: For those who don't know who William L. Shirer was he wrote one of the great history books of the 20th century, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and it's high time people started reading again, which I plan on doing again this winter. RK),

Though, as Shirer notes, “Untertan” also implies submissiveness. They expect to be bossed around, told what to do. It is a view I found nicely encapsulated in a video of a group of Irish YouTubers going to a gun range to try shooting for the first time: They observe it “seems crazy” that ordinary people could have something like that in their houses. Indeed. Such power, Europeans think, belongs only in the hands of our masters.

And that's what the elite in America today desire for Americans, turn the individualism of American greatness into boot licking grovelers to government dictates. Just like Europe, Russia and China, and it's a trend we see Americans falling for and supporting.

These false pandemic mandates and junk science global warming schemes are just two of the worst so many Americans are falling for and accepting, and Biden's speech is an example of how American views have been corrupted by the propaganda and our system of education. All of which are foundational to destroying the American identity, the American culture, the American economy and the number one goal of all of this is to destroy the American Constitution in order to impose a worldwide socialist system of governance under the auspices of the most corrupt and incompetent organization the world has ever known. The United Nations.

As the Canada Free Press states, "Because without America there is no free world", and leftists know and understand that.

While I didn't realize it until I started this post, the theme for this week has been "CUI BONO". Who benefits.

Please enjoy, have a good weekend and best wishes,

Rich

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