The Sun is about to set on 2023 and the New Year is about to
kick off, this author feels that there will be a flaring of tempers pretty much
across globe to varying degrees. The disgruntlements will come from all levels
of politics, be it inter-country or in-country there is a large number of very
unhappy people and they are not very happy. Ayn Rand put forward the idea that
‘You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring
reality.’
It has been said by many people that 2023 has been the year
of the clown, or to put it another way, people are living in an ‘upside down clown
world’; and I don’t have any good arguments against this proposition. For me, there
are two main reasons for this position: the first being the corruption and
bastardization of the language, the second being the installation of the ‘you
must help me’ culture, otherwise known as the ‘cry-bully’ people.
I feel that 2024 will be a year of revolt on a number of
fronts and it will be quite ugly in many of those talking points. For quite a
few years now the cry-bully people have had social clout and it seems that the
old adage of ‘if you give someone an inch they’ll take a mile’ came to
fruition, a saying which should be relegated to history. A more current
iteration could be ‘if you give someone an inch they’ll take an acre’, as there
seems to be a bit of a land grab going on, along with other resources, by
fighting age men from foreign lands.
Many people who claim that they are progressive will make
the claim that anyone who raises any concern about these military aged men
entering their country could lead to trouble are called xenophobic. This
typically leads me to ask these Progressives if the Polish people, the Belgians
or the French where xenophobic when the Nazi military machine entered their
countries; and for familial reasons I also include the invasion of Finland by the
Russian communists. Where those invasions ugly or was it the response?
I also feel that many people are fed up with the cry-bully
people on the subject of self-identification. The problem here is that not only
do many people not care how someone identifies they must not be told that they
have to at the behest of another. These petty and personal power grabs speak to
how weak people feel they are, in days now past, people found self value in
their own achievements or they were to busy to raise a ruckus. Most people seem
to enjoy the feeling of knowing that they have value, and just as hunger is the
best sauce for food you don’t like, that feeling of value will be demanded
again and again regardless of the cost to those within range. An animal
cornered or hungry is at its most dangerous.
Staying with the theme of the previous paragraph, some
people have a problem in that they would rather ‘go with the flow’ over
standing on principle; safety in numbers I suppose. The public Internet, more
specifically social-media, has brought a whole new ecosphere to mankind and
most people can’t smartly navigate this new landscape.
The ‘go with the flow’ people see something on social-media
and because that Internet Thing got a lot of likes they will try to mimic that
video not knowing exactly why people hit the LIKE button; I guess they just
like liking the likes. These acts and attitudes amplify the Internet Thing
resulting in a growth in popularity causing a spiraling up, or maybe depending
on the subject matter a more of a downward spiral. Please look up the Tide-Pod
challenge or the Jonestown massacre if you want to see this sort of hive mind
mentality in practice. This characteristic of the human mental state has always
been evident.
Capitalism can be defined as a system based on a voluntary exchange
of value, especially when one considers scarce resources, and no resource is infinitely
available in any given moment. Empathy is a resource found inside people and yet
that too has its limit and many people appear to have become tapped out. This
was exasperated by the reactions by many governments to the COVID scare. The
actions of these governments, especially the lock-downs, gave many people time
to lift their heads from the grindstone and take a look about; and a lot of
them didn’t like what they saw especially in regards to children.
Now that the stage has been set, the question to be asked is
“what will those who ‘go with the flow’ do when the tide shifts from coming in
to going out”; some will ride the new old wave while others stand steadfast in
the now not so new thing. As the pendulum swings or the wheel turns, pick your
metaphor, will those who continue advocate for the practice of mutilating and
castrating children in the name of gender flexibility admit that they may rightly
be labeled as Conservative? Remember, nobody wins for ever.
The catalyst for chaos in 2024 is the US election,
and it should be noted that the bedlam has already started with Trump being
taken off of the GOP primary ballot in two states. It looks like quite a number
of Americans are no longer buying the narratives put forth by many a public
figure, once again this seems to be a knock on effect of the words and acts
taken in the name of a ‘safe and effective’ response to COVID-19. Post COVID,
many people ending up feeling they may have been lied to.
Additionally, the impacts of mass illegal migration are building
and people are taking note and once again there came that feeling of being lied
to; and many people do not like that. Part of the problem is that people no
longer know what is factual as many NEWS outlets have picked a side and will go
as far as they can they can to protect their team. As per the most recent post
on this blog, a conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact at ever rapid rates. McCarthyism
is still utilized to this day as a tool to squash looking closely at a thing,
and yet it was eventually reveled that McCarthy wasn’t as wrong and the
original Red Scare wasn’t as far off the mark as people are still being lead to
believe.
I hope more people may ‘Be curious and not judgmental’ -
Walt Whitman, though I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Sadly, it feels
like 2024 will be a year of backlash, and backlash never ends up looking good; may
everyone have the best year possible…
