Most people aren’t really paying attention.
It’s not possible to disengage entirely, but we shouldn’t want that, anyway. The human soul is capable of operating on multiple levels simultaneously, and being a dozen different people for the rest of the world is unavoidable. Complexity is what we were designed for, so the real problem is when the system in which we live tries to reduce things which cannot be simplified, and complicates things which are not. The difference between genius and delusion is imaginary, so all we have left is simply what makes a difference tomorrow. Even if you get it all wrong, the simple attempt to pay attention and evaluate makes you a rare element in this world.
For example, we have Hollywood. Not the place — I’ve been there and it’s nothing, really — but the powerful presence in the marketplace for human attention. They have built themselves a nest on the ground. Not only did they meet the market where it was, but got deeply involved in making the market. They gave shape to the Lust of the Eyes, dominating human imagination for at least three generations. Sometime during that second generation, Hollywood took control of far more of the system than she should have. The revolution became the establishment, and struggles now mightily to stay in control. The forward edge of what she made is far, far away, and can’t be brought back.
Yes, Hollywood still provides entertainment people will buy, but it’s a very fragile position. It takes everything she has and the results are decreasingly satisfying to the latest generation. The moment has passed her by and she fights it tooth and nail. She will lose. Because she cannot retire gracefully and enjoy the ride, because she takes herself far too seriously, it will be an ugly death.
Some things change. You can steer parts of it if you have sufficient talent, if you can happen to catch where things can go with a little push. You have to pay attention, be fully aware of what’s possible, and then catch the momentum. Try to move the wrong thing and it will roll over you.
This business of gun control is not simple politics. This is unquenchable war between mutually hostile cultures. One of the things Hollywood did was feed the imagination of people who thought they could keep control forever, could control anything they liked. This issue is not up for negotiation. Honestly, I have no dog in this fight, but it’s obvious to me which one will win. The gun control idiots are going to push into territory they can’t possibly control. When the bloodshed starts, many of them will become the targets. They don’t understand what they are provoking. Everything they fear will come true and far, far more. And they will never understand how it’s all their own fault.
It has nothing to do with intelligence, reason or what’s good and right. This is not a prophetic word except to point out to the gun controllers how they’ve been deluded from the start. The gun owners aren’t better, but definitely more realistic. They aren’t less moral either, but they do have an utterly different morality regarding those few things progressives refuse to leave alone. The difference is burned into the nature of humanity itself, and cannot be eradicated. Nothing any human can do, singly or massed together, to change the facts of this fallen realm. Neither side is right, but it’s for sure one side will win at a cost no one living can imagine.
The gun control crowd will lose, and will not do so gracefully. This is why so many of them will be killed. They are willing to break the one last thing holding back the chaos, because they refuse to understand the time is past, their value is in deficit. The government will not be able to protect them, because the government simply isn’t that big. Don’t be silly enough to believe the people are the government; it hasn’t been that way since very early in the game. It’s a nice idea, but when the will of the people actually comes out into reality, all the mythology will be forgotten. So far, the whole thing has been highly leveraged and simply appears to be the will of the people. This business of private gun ownership will be the breaking point when that lever snaps off.
I’m just an observer on this thing. There is no right answer; right answers were made impossible long before I was born. I’m not smart enough to profit from this. I can’t guess how it will turn out; I won’t pretend I can play this market. Instead, I’m doing my best to stay out of it as much as possible. It’s not fear. I’ve already kissed my butt goodbye, but until God is finished with me here, no one else can get rid of me. Part of why I’m still here is watching and reporting what I see, and maybe — just maybe — help someone else to see.
