Down the Rabbit Hole
I feel a little like I used to (long, long ago) waking up after a couple days eating peyote. Gonzo Magical Un-Realism is the only way to describes last nights gathering of Celebrating Conservatism. Once you get past the fact that most of the people around you are wearing side-arms and then listen to an eleven member family group sing Marty Robbins' Ballad of the Alamo, your brain is sufficiently softened up to listen to guest speaker Michael Shaw talk about Agenda 21: The Ultimate War. He looked and sounded just enough like George Carlin that I kept wondering if it wasn't all a farcical comedy routine but NO, he is as serious as a heart attack.
The house was packed at well over five hundred terrified rural citizens, mostly working class,average age 50 plus.I made the mistake of inviting my friend Robbie down to observe and he was unable to keep from giggling loudly when Shaw would call the Missoula Sustainable Business Roundtable a "soviet-style front group", part of a "fifth column" of public-private partnerships intent on imposing "globalism" ( world governance) on beleaguered Bitterrooters. This drew unwanted attention our way and we were photographed as we left which did not seem real "freedom loving" to me but what do I know, I'm a commie.
Shaw had managed to smuggle out a copy of the Global Biodiversity Assessment Report which showed "their" ( the UN, Corporatist, Globalist Cabal) intention to reduce human population to one billion where we would have to live in high-rises in coastal cities. They would not have garages and we would be forced to walk everywhere. When the old lady in front of me heard this evil plan she practically lost it. Nothing less than "A Totally Controlled Society" was THEIR goal and the totally controlled audience was told to watch out for "warm and fuzzy terms" like "affordable housing" ( actual meaning: tents!) "common good", "vision", "stakeholder"( a stake through the heart of private property!)
The intense speaker next warned us of the Three E's Pattern ( he has a whole research group which discovers this stuff!) and he paused for effect before unveiling the first Evil E; Equity! the second E was economy: using the World Bank, WTO etc to re-distribute Americas wealth to the worlds poor ( "using sociology to re-engineer humanity") by replacing the Free Enterprise System with "public-private partnerships". The THIRD E was Environment: imposing "centralized control" and the "abolition of private property" through "sustainable development".
He even had a philosophical element ( borderline intellectual?) saying the "Artificial Dialectic" of "manufactured outcome" led to tyranny. Objectivism? He sort of lost me on this one.
Because these people don't "do" irony their website has books like "How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics" and "The End of Reason".No one in the crowd ever asks a question, it is all top down "education". None of this surprises me really, I knew I was surrounded by paranoid dimwits, but what is problematic is the stance on climate change, which they call "carbon eugenics". They are all over "climategate" and the Glen Beck bullshit and this will have very real consequences.
Today at noon is the rally on mainstreet to celebrate Right to Bear Arms Week so, assuming I can avoid a shoot-out, I will report back. Weirder and weirder, where it stops, no one knows! Come Back Hunter Thompson, we need you.
posted by troutsky @ 7:58 AM
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This drew unwanted attention our way and we were photographed as we left which did not seem real "freedom loving" to me but what do I know, I'm a commie.
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Cue the Beak in 1,2 ...
And so long as a number of states with small populations can continue to elect important Senate committee chairman that block any piece of "progressive" legislation we are at the mercy of these people.
Just organize enough of these medicine shows and it's over. I despair when I realize that they consider listening to Glenn Beck to be scholarship and anyone who doesn't just "doesn't know history".
I need a highball.
This group sounds like a bunch of old time Montana Power workers who think the commies cost them their jobs.
They don't learn.
Ducky
As commies are not capable of anything other than slogans
Guns don't kill people commies do.
All commies should come with warning labels. " Application of this idiotic philosophy has proven lethal in repeated applications".
"Make America a better place denaturalize and deport a commie today".
I just wanted to know has Beakinstein read Shlomo Sands The Invention of the Jewish People yet? I see he is still talking about the fakeistinians along with his other meaningless drivel.
They are correct that the movement for sustainability, climate recovery, etc, is anti-capitalist, ideologically, and probably anti-private property. But that does not make it, de facto, categorically a Communist friendly ideology, or a coummunist plot!
Most of those involved in sustainability whom I know are not globalists, but more like small-group land-base organized,even anti-civ types.
These people you describe are no different than most Americans. They want a piece of the pie... it was promised to them, so where the fuck is it... and don't try to take it away from us.
It does not matter to the majority of Westerners (Western Civ, that is) that the world is crumbling around us, planetary resources, the environment, the economics of industrialization, globalization... they don't care... they just want to keep their big houses, cars, guns, boats, and women folk, (all of their possessions) and party. And fuck the rest of you... We will be drunk and happy until the Titanic goes down, and us with it...God bless Amerika!!
Challenge Michael Shaw to a debate.
That I'll put you in the cross-hairs, huh, Troutsky
I see that this sites official Nazi
has shown up. Commies hyperventilate about racism, but openly court Nazis like LWB/John Brown.
He has his SS underoos and his very own lego concentration camp. Maybe he can invite Ren over so he can play Kapo.
Commies, Nazis and Jihadis of the world unite. You have nothing to lose except sanity, IQ points and
sociability.
Of course if the Commies get to power they need LWB/ John Brown to
be their Herman Marks. Commies will
blame all the killings on the deranged Nazi.
Where is Che Sponge Bob? He is probably going to brag that Cuban
prisoners get air conditioning.
Unfortunately, they were denied water and the rest is history. Chalk up more dead political prisoners for Commies.
It is discouraging at first to consider how hard we work to organize for a small fraction of this attendance but on the other hand it is a good thing the debate is finally being clarified. Kultur is correct that "environmentalism" is anti-capitalist. If only it's proponents would admit it we COULD begin the change we need. "Globalism" on the other hand is late-capitalisms last gasp and to associate the two is ridiculous.
The actual one on one debate is what needs to happen but it pre-supposes that a Tocquevillian discursive democracy still exists ( if it ever existed? ) or can be re-invigorated ( or created alongside capitalism). You have heard me at times argue for it and at times insist it has been swallowed by the Spectacle, exposing my own dissonance.
These people (C C ers) spit the word democracy with disdain. They see this as a war rather than an argument between citizens.An extension of the Cold War which they assumed they had won making the "cross-hairs" comment frighteningly relevant.
Just like the bible, they assume the constitution is a literal, word for word absolute Truth document inspired by God.We should all carry muskets!
or at least AK-47s
Is a bullet proof vest part of your standard wardrobe in that gun toting part of the country?
Maybe I'm just a wimp, but being in a room with people packing sidearms would scare the shit out of me. Hey, and I'm white!
Just like the bible, they assume the constitution is a literal, word for word absolute Truth document inspired by God.We should all carry muskets!
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Well, not exactly, trout. Take that train wreck of a proposition, the 2nd amendment.
The own and bear arms stuff means just that but the well regulated stuff can be ignored.
Interesting is that one of their great judicial heroes, Robert Bork, believed the 2nd only gives you the right to join a militia. The rest is up for grabs.
But they "know history" and the constitution so maybe we should just listen up.
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